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y Kunsthistorisches Museum

The world’s fourth largest gallery, the Museum of Art Second
History houses a collection based on works amassed over floor
the centuries by generations of Habsburg monarchs.
The public was given access to these art treasures when
two museums were built in Ringstrasse to designs by
Karl von Hasenauer and Gottfried Semper. One was to
house the art collection, a second, identical building the
Natural History Museum (see p86). Both opened in
1891. The art museum’s lavish interior comple­
ments its exhibits, today seen by more than
one and a half million people each year.

. Hunters in the Snow (1565)
The last in a cycle of seasonal paintings by Pieter
Bruegel the Elder, this winter scene graces a gallery
room containing the world’s largest collection of
this artist’s work.
First floor
Salt Cellar
Benvenuto Cellini
made this sumptuous
Saliera of the sea god
Neptune and an
earth goddess for the Ground floor
French King François I.

Museum Guide
The ground floor area to the right of the main entrance displays
artifacts from the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Rome
and the Near East. The area to the left houses the Kunstkammer,
with a collection of sculpture and decorative arts. The picture
gallery takes up the entire first floor, while the second floor houses
the impressive coin collection as well as temporary exhibitions.
Key
Egyptian and Near
Eastern collection . The Artist’s
Collection of Greek and Studio (1665)
Roman Antiquities This painting, one
Kunstkammer Wien of the most famous
Picture gallery by Vermeer, is
believed by some
Coin cabinets
to be a self-portrait
Non-exhibition space of the artist at work.
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