Named after the MuseumsQuartier, the museum complex in the former imperial stables.
Emperor Karl VI had court stables built facing the Hofburg; Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach’s building was completed in 1723 by his son Joseph Emanuel and had room for 600 horses. From 1921 it served as a trade-fair venue, the Messepalast, and it opened as the MuseumsQuartier in 2001. The station was first called Mariahilfer Straße, then Babenbergerstraße.