Museums and galleries in Vienna

Museums and galleries in Vienna

1. SeeLandstraße

   21er Haus

   Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst / Museum of Contemporary Art

   Has a permanent exhibit of works by the Austrian sculptor/architect Fritz Wotruba, and hosts rotating exhibits of international contemporary art.

   Wed Thu 11:00-21:00, Fri-Sun 11:00-18:00; open on holidays·€7 (adults), €5.50 (seniors/students/Vienna Card), free (under 18)

2. SeeInnere Stadt

   Albertina

   Once a palace, it is now the most popular exhibition space in Vienna, mainly for traditional modern art. The building itself is an experience as well. It is home to a valuable drawing collection, including many works of the German Renaissance painter, Dürer.

   Thu-Tue 10:00-18:00, Wed 10:00-21:00·€11.90 (adults), €9.90 (seniors 60+), €9.70 (Vienna Card), €8.50 (students), €7 (unemployed/military/disabled), free (children under 19)

3. SeeLandstraße

   Arnold Schönberg Center

   This building houses an archive of the works of the Viennese composer, with a permanent exhibit relating to his work and music and a gallery of his paintings.

   Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00·€5 (adults), €3 (seniors/students), free (children under 12), 10% reduction for Vienna Card

4. SeeInnere Stadt

   Beethoven Pasqualatihaus

   This 18th-century building is atop the Mölker Bastei, one of the only remaining sections of the old city wall. For 8 years Beethoven lived in a 4th-floor apartment in this building, where he composed his 4th-8th symphonies as well as his opera Fidelio. The museum preserves many of the composer's personal effects, and displays documents illustrating his life and work.

   Tue-Sun and holidays 10:00-13:00, 14:00-18:00·€4 (children and youth under 19), €3 (seniors/students and Vienna Card), free (children and youth under 19); free the first Sunday of every month

5. SeeInner East

   Bezirksmuseum Brigittenau

   Brigittenau District Museum

   This little museum tells the story of the district itself through pictures, views and models.

   Sun 10:00-12:00, Thu 17:00-19:00, closed on holidays and school breaks·Free

6. DrinkInnere Stadt

   Café Museum

   This cafe was designed by famous architect Adolf Loos, however the interior has been entirely refitted (most recently from 2010). Serves food, coffee, teas, and other drinks. Casual, quiet atmosphere.

   Open now · closes midnight tomorrow

7. SeeInner East

   Circus- und Clownmuseum

   Circus and Clown Museum

   This unusual museum houses a collection of props and costumes, with rotating exhibits.

   Sun 10:00-13:00, every 1st and 3rd Thu 19:00-21:00·Free

8. SeeOuter South

   Domenig-Haus

   Originally designed as a bank building by Günther Domenig, the structure now houses a publisher and a gallery run by a local cultural association.

   M W F 14:00-17:00 (closed for maintenance)

9. SeeInnere Stadt

   Dommuseum

   Cathedral and Diocesan Museum

   A collection of liturgical implements, illustrated manuscripts, altarpieces, and sculptures.

   Wed 10:00-18:00, Thu 10:00-20:00, Fri-Sun 10:00-18:00; last admission 30min before closing·€8 (adults), €7 (concessions), €3 (children 6-18); free (children under 6 or Vienna Pass)

10. SeeWieden

    Dritte Mann Museum

    Third Man Museum

    This is a private museum dedicated to the cult film The Third Man, which was shot in Vienna and released in 1949. This film is often played at the Burgkino.

    Sat 14:00-18:00 (no reservations)·€7.50 (adults), €6 (seniors/students)

11. SeeInnere Stadt

    Esperantomuseum

    Esperanto Museum

    Founded in 1927, this museum houses a library and museum with displays illustrating the development and grammar of the modern invented language Esperanto.

    Tue Wed 10:00-18:00, Thu 10:00-21:00, Fri-Sun 10:00-18:00·€4 (adults), €3.60 (Ö1 Club or Vienna Card), €3.50 (seniors); €3 (students/military/disabled); includes admission to the Globe and Papyrus Museums

12. SeeOuter East

    Fatty George Jazz Museum

    Honouring the jazz musician Fatty George (1927-1985), a small museum about his life and jazz in general was opened in his native village Essling, now part of Vienna. It was installed inside a historic toilet building in a park. The park was renamed Jazzpark and a sculpture depicting jazz (the musical style) was erected in 2005 by Leopold Grausam. On the opposite side of the street one can find another park memorializing another jazz musician, Bill Grah (1928-1996).

13. SeeAlsergrund

    Freud Museum

    This small museum is in Freud's historic flat where he practiced psychoanalysis for almost his whole life. However, the collection is limited mostly to documents of various kinds relating to Freud's life. Almost all of the flat's contents, including the famous original couch, went along with Freud to London when he fled the Nazis in 1939 and are now in the Freud Museum there.

    Daily 10:00–18:00·€10 (adults), €9 (seniors), €8.50 (Vienna Card), €7.50 (Club Ö1/students), €4 (children 12-18)

14. SeeLandstraße

    Fälschermuseum

    Museum of Art Fakes

    Unique museum devoted to art forgery. Houses a large collection of counterfeited paintings, many from highly-skilled, infamous forgers. Includes several pages of the infamous fake Hitler diaries which fooled numerous experts in the early 1980s.

    Tue-Sun 10:00-17:00, closed Mon and 24-25 Dec·€4.90 (adults), €4.40 (seniors/students), €2.20 (children 10-18), free (children under 9)

15. SeeInnere Stadt

    Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste

    Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts

    A gallery owned by the Academy of Fine Arts, to which Hitler applied to before he decided to change to politics. It offers some paintings by Rubens and Bosch. Most interesting are the Renaissance and medieval exponents.

    Tue-Sun and holidays 10:00-18:00·€8 (adults) €7 (Vienna Card), €5 (seniors/students/disabled), free (children and youth under 19)

16. SeeInnere Stadt

    Globenmuseum

    Globe Museum

    The only museum of its type in the world, this museum contains a collection of 650 globes of all types, as well as a collection of nearly 300,000 historic maps.

    Tue Wed 10:00-18:00, Thu 10:00-21:00, Fri-Sun 10:00-18:00·€4 (adults), €3.60 (Ö1 Club or Vienna Card), €3.50 (seniors), €3 (students/military/disabled); includes admission to the Esperanto and Papyrus Museums

17. SeeInnere Stadt

    Haus der Musik

    House of Music

    This is a relatively new and special museum devoted to an interactive learning experience. It covers the history of the Vienne Philharmonic Orchestra, the history of Vienna as a centre of music making (Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mahler, Schubert and others are documented). In addition there are the more experimental sections of futuristic composition (the Brain Opera) and sound experiences.

    Daily 10:00-22:00, last admission 21:30·€12 (adults), €9 (seniors/students/disabled), €5.50 (children 3-12), free (children under 3)

18. SeeMariahilf

    Haydnhaus

    Haydn's House

    Joseph Haydn spent the final twelve years of his life in this home, during which time he composed the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons. The house has been a museum since 1899, and careful restoration has included the small garden, which is now also open to the public.

    Tue-Sun and holidays 10:00-13:00, 14:00-18:00·€4 (adults), €3 (seniors/students/Vienna Card), free (children/youth under 19), free the first Sunday of every month

19. SeeLandstraße

    Heeresgeschichtliches Museum

    Museum of Military History

    A huge museum featuring weapons and military maps from different periods. You can also see the open-top car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the last Austrian prince, was shot in Sarajevo. His death triggered World War I and the eventual downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the same room as this is the visibly blood-stained jacket he was wearing at the time of his assassination.

    Daily 09:00-17:00·€6 (adults), €4 (seniors/students), free (under 19)

20. SeeInnere Stadt

    Jüdisches Museum Judenplatz

    Jewish Museum Judenplatz

    A second branch of the Jewish Museum on Dorotheergasse. Underneath the Judenplatz (the Jewish Square) is an underground medieval synagogue excavation. Amazingly, the synagogue was destroyed centuries ago, but its existence was remembered by the area's inhabitants up to the 20th century.

    S-Thu 10:00-18:00, Fri 10:00-14:00; closed on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur·€10 (adults), €8 (concessions), €5 (students), free (children under 15); includes admission to the branch on Dorotheergasse

21. SeeInnere Stadt

    Jüdisches Museum Wien

    Jewish Museum Vienna

    A museum documenting the history of Vienna's substantial Jewish community which included Zweig, Freud, Herzl, Mahler, and Schoenberg. Three sites are available for one combined ticket: two museum sites and the main synagogue. Attached to the museum at Judenplatz are the archaeological remains of a medieval synagogue. The Stadttempel, the only historical synagogue in Vienna to have survived World War II, is accessible on through the guided tour.

    Sun-Fri 10:00-18:00; closed on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur·€10 (adults), €8 (concessions), €5 (students), free (children under 15); includes admission to the branch on Judenplatz

22. SeeInnere Stadt

    Kaiserappartements

    Imperial Apartments

    This trio of museums includes the Imperial Apartments (Kaiserappartements), Sisi Museum, and Imperial Silver Collection (Silberkammer). The Imperial Apartments and Sisi Museum include 22 state rooms of the residential and state apartments of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth (popularly known as Sisi) and show 19th-century imperial life. The Imperial Silver Collection displays unique items of the glittering world of imperial dining.

    Sep-Jun: daily 09:00-17:30, Jul-Aug: daily 09:00-18:00·Combined ticket: €11.50 (adults), €10.50 (students/disabled and Vienna Card), €7 (children 6-18)

23. SeeWieden

    Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Pavilion

    An original entrance building for the Wiener Stadtbahn railway station at Karlsplatz (now U-Bahn line U4), designed by Otto Wagner. It is a good example of functional turn of the century architecture – ornate, yet useful. Wagner was one of the most influential architects in Vienna and his style was widely copied. No longer used to access the station, the building now houses a small exhibition on Wagner and the Viennese urban improvements of the era.

24. SeeLandstraße

    KunstHausWien

    Vienna House of the Arts

    Even an avowed hater of modern art can appreciate this. This is Hundertwasser's (born Friedrich Stowasser in 1928) major contribution to the Viennese art world. In a time when artists often try to shock the public or merely impress other members of the rarefied gallery subculture, Hundertwasser's KunstHausWien would be a bastion against the dictatorship of the straight line, the ruler and T-square, a bridgehead against the grid system and the chaos of the absurd. Starting with the façade of the building, adapted from its prior life as a furniture factory, there is a Gaudi-in-Barcelona feel to the place. Windows peek out like eyes from curvy, rounded plaster and colorful paint. It is a Disneyland for grownups.

    Daily 10:00-19:00·€10 (adults), €8 (seniors/students/handicapped/military), €5 (children 11-18)

25. SeeInnere Stadt

    Kunsthistorisches Museum

    Museum of Fine Arts

    One of the world's greatest art museums and in a palace that is a work of art itself. Serious art fans may wish to devote more than a day to its treasures. There is no other word to describe the Kunst other than mind-boggling. It contains a world-class exhibit of the Habsburgs' art collection, including Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Bosch, and Brueghel. The museum has an excellent collection of ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art. The coin & medals collection is also exhaustive in its scope. The museum cafe is a bit pricey, but good, and in a beautiful setting. Hand-held photography is permitted.

    Tue Wed Fri-Sun 10:00–18:00, Thu 10:00–21:00·€14 (adults), €11 (concessions); admission includes entry to the Ephesos Museum, Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, and Collection of Arms and Armour (see listing below under New Palace)

26. SeeNeubau

    Leopold Museum

    Has a strict policy of not allowing big bags inside the museum. Even your cameras (unless they can be tucked inside a small carry bag) will have to be deposited outside.

    Mon Wed Fri-Sun 10:00-18:00, Thu 10:00-21:00·€12, students €8, children apprentice, disabled €7, €1 per person for the cloak room service

27. SeeAlsergrund

    Liechtenstein Museum

    A private collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein is exhibited in his former Viennese residences, which include the Stadtpalais (City Palace) and Gartenpalais (Garden Palace). The richly decorated picture gallery mainly exhibits Baroque paintings, with a nice portion of Rubens. Guided tours on selected Fridays in German only, registration required.

    Gartenpalais: 15:00-16:00 (admission 14:45), Stadtpalais: 17:00-16:30 (admission 14:45)·€25 (Stadtpalais), €20 (Gartenpalais); €38 (single ticket for both palaces); no discounts

28. SeeInnere Stadt

    MAK

    Museum für angewandte Kunst / Austrian Museum of Applied Arts

    The museum has the MAK Design Shop and a study collection. The museum emphasises design and decorative arts, and has a huge furniture collection. Early 20th century, especially Vienna Secession, and modern design are very well represented, as are contemporary decorative art and design.

    Tue 10:00-22:00, Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00·€12 (adults), €10 (concessions), free (children and youth under 19); 50% discount on Tu from 18:00-22:00

29. SeeNeubau

    MUMOK

    Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien

    Has a strict policy of not allowing big bags inside the museum. Even your cameras (unless they can be tucked inside a small carry bag) will have to be deposited outside. Has a self-service locker.

    Mon 14:00-19:00, Tue Wed Fri-Sun 10:00-19:00, Thu 10:00-21:00·€10 (adults), €8 (seniors/Club Ö1/Vienna Card), €7 (students under 27), free (children under 19)

30. DrinkMargareten

    Motto

    Motto Club

    It is a bar, a restaurant, a gallery and a concert location. The bar serves good wines and cocktails. It is a location for smokers.

31. SeeInnere Stadt

    Mozarthaus Vienna

    Mozart House

    This is the Viennese residence of Austria's most famous composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and a branch of the Vienna Museum.

    Daily 10:00-19:00, last admission 18:30·€10 (adults), €8 (concessions), €3 (children under 14)

32. SeeInnere Stadt

    Museum Postsparkasse

    Otto Wagner Museum

    SIGNA, the owner of the Post Office Savings Bank building, runs the WAGNER:WERK Museum Postsparkasse. Opened by BAWAG P.S.K. in 2005, it's in the small banking hall. The museum and the main banking hall are open to visitors. At the post office of his original design. At this museum you can see the more serious aspect of his artistic enterprise, that of public life. Also some of the original furniture and his plans.

    Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00·Free

33. SeeInnere Stadt

    Museum am Schottenstift

    Museum at the Scottish Monastery

    A nice, small picture gallery mainly of Baroque Austrian painting.

    Tue-Sat 11:00-17:00·€8 (adults), €6 (seniors/students), €4 (Vienna Card and NÖ Card), €2 (children 6-15)

34. SeeNeubau

    Möbel Museum Wien

    Imperial Furniture Collection / Vienna Furniture Museum

    Houses the largest furniture collection in the world. The exhibit displays furniture for all the Austrian emperors since Charles VI (the father of Maria Theresa), furniture by the Thonet Brothers, Jugendstil, and the Viennese Modernist movement. In addition, they show other contemporary Austrian architects and designers, such as E.A. Plischke, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Luigi Blau, and Franz West. Besides the permanent furniture collection, the museum also hosts two to three temporary exhibitions on furniture design and photography each year. You can purchase a single ticket or a Sisi Ticket, which allows you entrance to the Schönbrunn Palace, the Imperial Apartments, Sisi Museum, and the Imperial Silver Collection in the Hofburg. Wheelchair-accessible.

    Tue–Sun 10:00-18:00·€8.50 (adults), €7.50 (seniors/students/disabled/Vienna Card), €6 (children 6-18)

35. SeeInnere Stadt

    Naturhistorisches Museum

    Natural History Museum

    This museum was erected as a mirror to its twin museum, the Museum of Fine Arts. It exhibits various minerals, meteorites, fossils, stuffed animals, and skeleton reconstructions of dinosaurs and other. It also includes an anthropological section, where you can see the beautiful Venus of Willendorf which is 25,000 years old. Most signs and explanations in the museum are only in German, and you will likely receive little sympathy for this from museum staff. Expect museum guards to rush you out at least 15 minutes before closing time.

    Wed 09:00-21:00, Thu-Mon 09:00-18:30, closed Tue·€10 (adults), €8 (seniors and Ö1 Club or Vienna Card), €5 (students/apprentices/military), free (disabled and children under 19)

36. SeeInnere Stadt

    New Palace

    Neue Hofburg

    The newest and largest section of the Imperial Palace. It contains the Welt Museum Wien, the Papyrus Museum, and three branches of the Museum of Fine Arts.

37. SeeOuter South

    OstLicht Gallery of Photography

    OstLicht Galerie für Fotografie

    Hosts group and solor exhibits of contemporary photography, with an onsite library, bookshop, and bar.

    Gallery and library: Wed-Sat 12:00-18:00

38. SeeJosefstadt

    Palais Schönborn

    This impressive Baroque palace was built in 1706-1711 following the designs of Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. It houses the Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art (Museum für Volkskunde) (see listing below).

39. SeeAlsergrund

    Pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum

    Pathological and Anatomical State Museum

    Housed in a squat tower, which once was an insane asylum, the Narrenturm (Fool's Tower), this museum contains some of the dustier corners of the annals of medicine. You will find preserved hydrocephalic infants, wax castings of tertiary syphilis, antique medical devices, and even a laryngeal tuberculous ulcer. The gift shop sells postcards depicting the best of these.

    Wed 10:00-18:00, Thu Sat 10:00-13:00·€4 (adults), €2 (concessions), free (under 19)

40. SeeInnere Stadt

    Phantastenmuseum

    Fantastic Realism Museum

    An unusual museum dedicated to the work of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism (Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus), highlighting works by artists Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Fritz Janschka. An extra section of the museum displays paintings by international artists, and the first floor is devoted to rotating special exhibits.

    Daily 10:00-18:00·€9 (adults), €7 (concessions), free (children under 6)

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