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562  GERM AN Y , A USTRIA , AND SWITZERLAND

7 Museums-
Quartier Wien
Museumsplatz 1. Tel 01-523 5881.
 MuseumsQuartier, Volkstheater.
@ 48A to Volkstheater. v 49 to
Volkstheater. Visitor Centre:
Open 10am–7pm daily. & 8
7 0 - ∑ mqw.at
This museum complex is one
of the largest cultural centers in
the world, housed in what was
once the imperial stables and
carriage houses. Here, you will
find art museums, venues for
Hunters in the Snow by Peter Brueghel the Elder (1565) film, theater, architecture, dance,
new media, and a children’s
6 Kunsthistorisches collection of 16th-century creativity center. The visitor
Museum Venetian paintings, with a center is a good starting point.
comprehensive range of Titians
Among the attractions is the
Maria-Theresien-Platz. Tel 01-525 and great works by Giovanni Leopold Museum which focuses
4025.  MuseumsQuartier, Bellini and Tintoretto. Also on on Austrian art, including many
Volkstheater. @ 57A. v D, 1, 2, 71. show are the bizarre vegetable works by Egon Schiele and
Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun (Jun–Aug: portrait heads, representing the Gustav Klimt. The Museum of
10am–6pm daily); picture gallery also four seasons, made for Emperor Modern Art Ludwig Foundation
6–9pm Thu. Closed Jan 1, May 1, Nov Rudolf II by Giuseppe Vienna shows contemporary
1, Dec 25. & 7 = 8 ∑ khm.at Arcimboldo (1527–93). and modern art from around the
The German section is rich in world. ZOOM Kinder-museum
The Museum of the History of 16th-century paintings. There offers a lively introduction to
Art attracts more than one and are several works by Dürer, the world of the museum for
a half million visitors each year. including his Madonna children. Architekturzentrum
Its collections are with the Pear (1512). is dedicated to 20th- and
based largely on The most 21st-century architecture.
those built up interesting
over a number of the Spanish
of centuries by works are the 8 Freud Museum
the Habsburgs. portraits of Berggasse 19. Tel 01-319 1596.
The picture the Spanish  Schottentor. @ 40A. v D.
gallery occupies Blue ceramic hippopotamus from royal family by Open 10am–6pm daily. &
the first floor. The Egypt (around 2000 BC) Diego Velázquez ∑ freud-museum.at
collection focuses (1599–1660).
on Old Masters from the 15th On the ground floor are No. 19 Berggasse is very like any
to the 18th centuries. Because the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, other 19th-century apartment
of the links between the and Near Eastern collections, in Vienna, yet it is now one of
Habsburgs and the Netherlands, with new rooms devoted the city’s most famous addresses.
Flemish painting is well specifically to Greek and Roman The father of psychoanalysis,
represented. About half the antiquities. Among the Egyptian Sigmund Freud, received
surviving works of Peter Brueg- and Near Eastern antiquities is patients here from 1891 to 1938.
hel the Elder (c.1525–69) are an entire 5th-Dynasty tomb The flat housed Freud’s family,
held by the museum, including chapel from Giza (c.2400 BC) too. Memorabilia on display
The Tower of Babel and most of and a splendid bust of King
the cycle of The Seasons. Tuthmosis III (c.1460 BC).
The Dutch paintings range The sculpture and decorative
from genre scenes of great arts collection (Kunstkammer
domestic charm to magnificent Wien) houses some fine, late
landscapes. All the Rembrandts Gothic religious statues by artists
on show are portraits, including such as Tilman Riemen schneider
the famous Large Self-Portrait (c.1460–1531), and curiosities
of the artist in a plain smock owned by various Habsburg
(1652). The only Vermeer is the monarchs, such as automata
enigmatic allegorical painting, and scientific instru ments, as
The Artist’s Studio (1665). The well as the famous saliera, or Beautifully restored patients’ waiting room
Italian galleries have a strong salt cellar, by Benvenuto Cellini. in the Freud Museum
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