updated: 09.04.10
Weapon Of Beauty tour
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Inoperable Gallery
Stencils from the streets
Let's face it, Vienna is no New York or Berlin when it comes to street art. The guys at Inoperable try to change that for quite...
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MotMot
Sniffin' glue
MotMot is a small screen-printing and graphic design shop on Kirchengasse that designs and manufactures their own line of t-shi...
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Dorotheum
Hunting ground for art and vintage
Make no mistake: this is not just an upscale pawnshop for strapped aristocrats palming off Grandpa's patinaed oil portrait. Fou...
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Be a good girl
Girls and boys don't cry
Be a good girl is an inspiration. What you may be looking for—and what you will most certainly find—is a carefully ...
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Am Himmel
Close to heaven
It's no coincidence that Am Himmel means "in heaven" in German. A green meadow situated on a plateau in the Vienna Woods high a...
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Wurstelprater
Beyond boredom
The Wurstelprater amusement park, or Wiener Prater, is pink, smells like caramel and cotton candy abounds. For sugar lovers, th...
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Fluc
Anarchists vs. Architecture
Fluc is an anarchist party experiment gone right—a rugged-looking night club in the formerly "dirty down Prater" that has...
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Elektro Gönner
Electric feel
Elektro Gönner is a former electrical shop-cum-bar located on a tangent path way off of Mariahilferstrasse. Run by a group of a...
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Donau
Against these walls
Inconspicuously tucked away on a street off the south edge of Mariahilferstrasse, Donau has no signs or obvious entrance. Blink...
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PARK
The white space of statement fashion
The city's ultimate concept store offers 500 meters of contemporary design on two floors designed by the architects SPACE+. The...
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Meinl am Graben
The culinary epicenter and a legacy
A delicatessen of superlatives. "The largest, ripest cheese selection," "the rarest poultry," "the most exquisite delicacies kn...
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Halle Cafe
Halla good
Halle Cafe is a modern, styled cafe in the famous Museumsquartier. Located on the ground floor of the Kunsthalle building, righ...
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Die Burgermacher
Burgers 101
Die Burgermacher fomerly known as Burgermeister (burger master, natch) restaurant takes burger-making with all the seriousness ...
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Palmenhaus
Paradise under the palms
One of the most spectacular locations in Vienna. The Jugendstil imperial palm house has been masterfully renovated by architect...
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Ă–sterreicher im MAK
Vienna crash course on food and design
You only have 2 hours in Vienna and want a crash course on the Viennese food, culture and design scene. Take the CAT airport sh...
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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 ...
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Streetart Passage
Legal invasion
Street Art Passage is the third arty passage—with three in total—in the MuseumsQuartier and it's entirely devoted t...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Wotruba Church
Blessed, you rise
This church on the outskirts of Vienna astounds with its mad Lego-like architectural exterior, which is made with no apparent r...
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Bundesbad Alte Donau
Social swimming
The long stretch of water known as Alte Donau came into being following the first Danube River regulation process in 1875. Swim...
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Flohmarkt
Cheaper by the dozen
Surround yourself by Otto Wagner masterpieces. This huge and extremely packed flea market takes over the expansive Rechte Wienz...
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Der Wiener Deewan
Pay as you wish Pakistani
That's right. The concept might seem mind-blowing, but at this Pakistani eatery, you can eat all you want and pay what you want...
25hrs with Peter Kruder
Growing up in Vienna was the best thing which could have happened to me. Smooth neighborhood, homies you can rely upon, constant chilling. Even whi...
Museumsquartier
Plans to transform the former imperial riding stables into a “Museumsquartier”, or museums quarter, caused a major controversy in the late 1990s. C...
