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Photo Franz Schubert Museum Apartment

The Franz Schubert Apartment Museum is now a museum. The house is a two-storey building without unnecessary elements of decor. It …

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Photo Museum of Abortion and Contraception

The Museum of Abortion and Contraception was founded by Suzanne Krayshay and Brigitte Attle. Interestingly, many residents of Aust …

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Photo Pathology Museum

The Museum of Pathology in Vienna has many unofficial names, such as the House of Fools, the Tower of the Mad, and they all reflec …

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Photo Johann Strauss Museum

The Johann Strauss Museum is one of Vienna’s favorite bohemian sites. The museum is located in one of the most prestigious urban a …

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Photo Heiligenstadt - Beethoven House Museum

Heiligenstadt is the apartment of Ludwig van Beethoven, where he spent the summer of 1802. This is a suburb of Vienna, where the f …

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Photo Vienna Museum of Criminalistics

In Vienna, on the street Grosse Sperlgasse, 24 is an unusual museum with high ceilings in narrow dark rooms, which evokes a sense …

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Photo Ernst Fuchs Museum

Ernst Fuchs Museum – Ernst Fuchs Museum – presents private works of brilliant artists and architects of the XX century. The museu …

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Photo Globe Museum

The Globe Museum in Vienna is unique because it is the world’s only collection of globes on public display. The museum is located …

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Photo Essla Museum

Klosterneuburg is a lovely town in the vicinity of Vienna and also the cradle of Austrian history. The city is associated with the …

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Photo Torture Museum

The Museum of Torture in Vienna demonstrates the dark side of human history through its authentic and powerful exhibits. The expos …

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Photo The Third Man Museum

The Third Man Museum is located in Vienna. It is dedicated to the classic spy thriller of the same name, directed by Carol Reed. T …

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Photo Museum of Silver and Porcelain in Hofburg

The museum features English, Sèvres and Chinese sets, silver chandeliers and trays with intricate contraptions for sauces and spic …

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Photo Vienna Coffee Museum

The Vienna Coffee Museum is one of Austria’s most unusual and popular museums. It was founded in 2003 by Edmund Mayr, who presente …

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Photo Austrian Folklore Museum

The opening of the Austrian Folklore Museum took place in 1895 in the building of the Vienna Stock Exchange, and in 1917, due to t …

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Photo Papyrus Museum

The Papyrus Museum has the world’s largest collection of papyri. Fans of graphics and art of Egypt will be able to see the origina …

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Photo Romanesque Museum at Hoer Markt

The Romanesque Museum in Hoer Markt Square offers tourists a fascinating journey through time, from ancient times to the present d …

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Photo Sigmund Freud Museum

The Sigmund Freud Museum presents tourists with a rich and fascinating exhibition that allows them to get acquainted with the life …

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Photo Museum of Money at the National Bank of Austria

The National Bank of Austria is perhaps the oldest bank of its kind in Europe. It was founded on the basis of the Austro-Hungarian …

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Photo Museum of Ancient Instruments

For centuries, Vienna has been the music capital of Europe. Everything in this city is literally imbued with music - it sounds in …

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Photo Austrian Theatre Museum

The boundary of the XIX-XX centuries in Vienna was a real flowering of theatrical art in its various manifestations. Theatrical an …

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Photo Folklore Museum

The Austrian Folklore Museum is located in Vienna. Founded in 1985, it was originally housed in the former stock exchange, but in …

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Photo Karlsplatz Museum

The Karsplatz Museum was known as the Vienna Historical Museum until 2003. The museum was established in 1887 as the main museum o …

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Photo Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum

The Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum opened its doors to visitors on October 7, 2011. It was opened in the Austrian village of Tal, wh …

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Photo Natural History Museum in Vienna

The Natural History Museum in Vienna was opened in 1889 in a purpose-built building on Maria Theresa Square. At the same time, the …

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Photo Museum of Ephesus

The Ephesos Museum presents tourists with a huge collection of exhibits belonging to the era of Ancient Greece. A special place in …

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Photo Circus and Clownade Museum

The Circus and Clown Museum is located in Vienna, Austria. The museum was founded in 1927 and its creator is the editor and writer …

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Photo ZOOM Children's Museum

Zoom is the only museum in Austria for children and is considered the best in Europe. When planning with your child where to go an …

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Photo Imperial Furniture Museum

The Vienna Imperial Furniture Museum (Hofmobiliendepot) is a unique collection of 165,000 pieces of furniture. Originally a Habsbu …

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Photo Tobacco Museum

The Tobacco Museum, located in Vienna, Austria, is considered the largest museum of its kind in the world. It was founded in 1873 …

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Photo Lipizzian Museum

The Lipizzian Museum, located in the Stahlburg Palace, is dedicated to horses, and it is representatives of a rare and very beauti …

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Photo Museum of Electropathology

The Museum of Electropathology, located in the Austrian capital, Vienna, was opened in 1936 in the building of an old hospital by …

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Photo Ephesus Museum

The Ephesus Museum contains an extensive collection of archaeological finds from ancient Ephesus (the territory of modern Turkey), …

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Photo Museum of Funeral Equipment

The Museum of Funeral Equipment (Bestattungsmuseum) could be called one of the strangest museums in Europe, if not especially reve …

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Photo Empress Sisi Museum in Hofburg

Being the wife of Franz Joseph, the Empress carefully monitored her appearance: she had beautiful long curls, a beautiful face and …

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Photo Ethnographic Museum

The Ethnographic Museum is a treasure trove of historical monuments of archaeology and ancient culture right in the center of Vien …

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Photo Vienna Museum of Modern Art

The creation of the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna in the 60s of the 20th century was entrusted to the young art historian Werner …

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Photo Chocolate Museum

The Chocolate Museum will allow tourists to learn a lot of new and interesting things about the art of growing cocoa, its processi …

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Photo Museum of Palace Silver and Tableware

The Museum of Palace Silver and Tableware is located in the Hofburg Palace. Here before tourists opens the magical and charming wo …

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Photo Tram Museum

The tram museum, located in Vienna, Austria, opened in 1966. It occupies the former Erdberg carriage yard, designed by architect T …

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Photo Museum of clocks

The Clock Museum in Vienna is also known as the Time Museum. Here tourists experience extraordinary sensations. Here you understan …

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Popular Questions and Answers

Answer: The Vienna Museum of Natural History has housed a collection of Habsburgs since 1750, including minerals and dinosaur skeletons. The Museum of Art History in Maria Theresa Square displays works by Bruegel, Rubens and Dürer. The Beethoven House-Museum in Heiligenstadt has preserved the setting where the composer wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament.

Museum guide Vienna

Vienna is a city where history, music and science meet in a rich museum fabric. Walking through the streets of the capital of Austria turns into a journey through the centuries: from the musical apartments of famous composers to monumental collections of natural history and unique thematic halls. For lovers of art, science and unusual stories, Vienna offers museums for every taste, turning excursions into vivid impressions.

The best museums Vienna neighborhood

Here you can see the apartment of the great composer, which preserved the atmosphere of the era, visit the house where another musical genius lived, and look at the exhibitions dedicated to the classics of Austrian music - all these places are closer than it seems. In the center of the city there are large collections of silver and porcelain in the palace halls of the Hofburg, and in the neighborhood there are extensive expositions of natural history, opened in the late XIX century on Maria Theresa Square. For those looking for the unusual, there is a Globe Museum with the world’s only public collection, an extensive selection of papyri with authentic ancient Egyptian texts, and collections on the history of forensics and pathoanatomy storing rare medical artifacts. There are also many specialized museums in Vienna – from a house dedicated to one of the famous actors, to interactive playgrounds and expositions about coffee and chocolate. In the surrounding area, for example, in Klosterneuburg, historical gatherings related to the regional dynasty and religious heritage open, which makes the routes around Vienna especially busy.

Museum exhibitions and events

The museum life of the city is not limited to permanent collections: the halls regularly host temporary exhibitions and imported projects from other countries and major museums. Some institutions celebrated anniversaries and discoveries in different years – for example, a large building of natural history opened its doors in 1889, a museum dedicated to electropathology began its work in 1936, and one of the thematic biographical exhibitions opened on October 7, 2011. These dates reflect the long tradition of museums in Vienna and are often accompanied by thematic exhibitions, lectures and special excursion programs that periodically update the poster and offer visitors new routes and formats of visits.

Come to Vienna to collect your perfect museum route and discover your favorite exhibits in person. The best way to feel the city and not miss the main thing is to use the services of a private guide: local specialists will tell stories, show hidden pearls, help you navigate through time and save queues. Book a tour, make a itinerary to suit your interests and allow your trip to Vienna museums to become truly memorable.

 

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