Found 21 locations tagged with "museum":
Wien Museum
The city's history
The Wien Museum is dedicated to the city’s history and culture dating from the earliest settlements through to the present day....
Museumsquartier
Culture club
With some 60,000 square meters, MQ is one of the largest cultural quarters in the world. As the city's epicenter of cultural co...
Geymüller Schlössl
Secret garden
This magnificent but little-known mansion is only tram ride away to Pötzleinsdorf, one of Vienna’s outer suburbs. Built in 1...
Naturhistorisches Museum
Taxidermists' delight
Vienna’s museum of natural history works like a cabinet of worldly curiosities. Major renovations—its exhibition halls we...
Pratermuseum
Vintage amusement
The Prater Museum displays mementos from the old Wurstelprater amusement park which was destroyed in the final days of WWII. A ...
Jüdisches Museum Wien
Jewish Vienna
Flash back to 1895, when Vienna’s Jewish Museum was the first of its kind in the world. Four decades of collecting and connoiss...
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Finest art
This venerable institution is undoubtedly up there with the world’s finest collections of Old Master paintings. Highlights incl...
The Third Man Museum
For dedicated fans
This private institution presents a vast array of more than 1000 original documents that capture the historically significant f...
Sigmund Freud Museum
Freudian Slip
It doesn’t take a psychoanalyst to figure out why there is no street in Vienna named for Sigmund Freud. The man who gave us pen...
Museum Judenplatz
Chilling memorial to Nazi victims
Plans to erect a Holocaust memorial on Judenplatz (literally, "Jew Square“) were all but obliterated in the late 1990s. Why? Th...
Schloss Schönbrunn
Imperial splendor
It's true that Schönbrunn was initially designed in the 18th century to resemble Versailles...though it didn’t quite pan out th...
quartier21
Funky cultural quarter
This section of the Museumsquartier houses a whopping list of small to mid-sized cultural groups who occupy studios, retail sho...
Galerie WestLicht
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeese
WestLicht is a photography gallery founded by camera enthusiasts. As a non-profit space, the gallery shows both photograph exhi...
Albertina
Picture this
Named after Duke Alberta of the 18th century, a passionate art collector, the Albertina houses one of the world's largest colle...
Leopold Museum
Controversy over looted art
The Leopold Museum has potential as one of the world’s premier collections of Austrian early twentieth-century art. Instead, th...
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig...
MUMOK
Okay, so “MUMOK” isn’t the most original museum acronym in the world. With its sheer façade of dark gray basalt lava and its...
Belvedere
Kiss Me, Klimt
Visitors on the lookout for Gustav Klimt’s golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer are out of luck. In the wake of a legal battle ...
Secession
Flagship of modernism
In 1897, a group of artists headed by Gustav Klimt banded together to form the Secession, an artists’ collective that rebelled ...
Bank Austria Kunstforum
Bank Art
A recommended stop for art lovers, especially for classical modern painting of the post-war years. Every year, 300,000 people v...
MAK
Museum for applied arts
Founded in 1864 as the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, the MAK has pursued a commitment to combining pr...
Akademie der Bildenden Künste
Academy of Fine Arts
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, founded in 1692 by court painter Peter Strudt, is one of the oldest higher educations institut...