MAK – Museum for Applied Arts
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Design is one of the main features of MAK. The museum shows furniture, glass, china, silver, and textiles from the Middle Ages to the present day. Precious crafts from the Wiener Werkstätte, bentwood furniture by Thonet and art nouveau highlights such as the gilded design of Gustav Klimt for the frieze of the Stoclet Palais […]
Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien
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The Bank Austria Kunstforum of Vienna chiefly displays art from the classic and modern period and postwar avant-garde. The entry portal from the house on the Freyung designed by the star architect Gustav Peichl is a work of art in itself. In the capacious rooms, the Bank Austria Kunstforum of Vienna has dedicated itself to […]
Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna (Natural History Museum)
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The history of the earth and the breathtaking variety of nature can be practically experienced due to 20 million objects: From insects to gemstones and minerals and pterodactyls, the Habsburgs united everything under the roof of this museum near the Imperial Palace. Numerous taxidermy specimens of animals that are either extinct or threatened with extinction […]
Kunst Haus Wien
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Colorful areas, irregular forms, many grown over with lush green plants: this is how painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928 – 2000) encouraged new impulses – and not only to Vienna’s architecture. He also created an exhibition center offering a permanent exhibition of Hundertwasser’s works as well as changing exhibitions of exciting contemporary art. Master Hundertwasser has […]
Leopold Museum
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Hundreds of masterworks of Austrian modern art collected by the passionate art lover Dr. Rudolf Leopold are shown in the Leopold Museum at MuseumsQuartier near the Imperial Palace. The Leopold Museum is a unique treasure-trove of Viennese art nouveau, the Vienna Workshop and of the Expressionist period. As the most-visited museum in the most fashionable […]
Modern, postmodern, Albertina modern
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Vienna has a new museum for modern and contemporary art. And what a museum it is! The Albertina modern, an annex of the world-famous Albertina, occupies around 2,500 m² in the totally renovated Künstlerhaus. The most important collections of Austrian art after 1945, the Essl Collection and the Jablonka Collection, form the basis of the […]
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Art History Museum)
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The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum) was built in 1891 near the Imperial Palace to house the extensive collections of the imperial family. With its vast array of eminent works and the largest Bruegel collection in the world, it is considered one of the most eminent museums in the world. Numerous major art works of […]
Albertina
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The Albertina not only has the largest and most valuable graphical collections in the world, with works such as Dürer’s “Hare” and Klimt’s studies of women. Its latest exhibition collection presents masterpieces of the Modern, spanning Monet to Picasso and Baselitz. As the largest Habsburg residential palace, the Albertina dominates the southern tip of the […]
The Belvedere
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The Belvedere is not only a magnificent Baroque palace but also houses one of Austria’s most valuable art collections – with key works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), successful general and art connoisseur, had Belvedere garden palace built by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt as his summer residence […]