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Vienna’s Best: Museums
and Galleries

Vienna boasts an astonishing number of museums, and many
of the collections are housed in elegant former palaces or
handsome buildings specially commissioned for the purpose.
Some of the museums are of international importance, while
others are of more local or specialist interest. Further details Sacred and Secular Treasuries Wien Museum
can be found on pages 50–51. The Ainkurn sword (around 1450) Karlsplatz
can be seen in the Imperial Cathedral Museum
Treasuries in the former imperial Stained-glass windows This St Andrew’s cross
palace of the Hofburg. from the Stephansdom reliquary (c. 1440) is
(around 1390) are one of many medieval
among the many items religious treasures held
here documenting by the cathedral.
Vienna’s history.
Naturhistorisches Museum
This museum has displays on
fossils, ethnography and
mineralogy, and a much-
visited dinosaur hall.
Schottenring and Austrian Museum of
Alsergrund Applied Arts
This early 19th-century
beaker and Wiener
Werkstätte furniture (see
pp56–7) are among
D A N U B E C A N A L
D A N U B E C A N A L
examples of decorative
Museum and
Townhall Quarter and applied arts on
display in this museum.
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Hans Holbein’s portrait of
Hofburg
Jane Seymour (1536) is one Hofburg Stephansdom
Quarter
Quarter
Quarter
of hundreds of Old Masters The Belvedere
displayed in this fine art The Upper Belvedere displays art
museum. from the Middle Ages onwards,
including medieval painting and
sculpture and Renaissance and
Baroque works. Ferdinand
Waldmüller’s Roses in the Window,
shown here, is part of this
collection, as is Gustav Klimt’s
The Kiss. The Lower Belvedere
and Orangery house
temporary exhibitions.
Opera and
Naschmarkt
Belvedere Quarter

Albertina Heeresgeschichtliches
This museum houses Museum
temporary exhibitions, Paintings of battles and
MuseumsQuartier mainly based on the military commanders, such
Contained in this vast cultural Albertina’s celebrated as Sigmund L’Allemand’s
centre is the largest Egon collection of prints portrait of Field Marshal
Schiele collection in the world, and drawings (here, 0 metres 500 Gideon-Ernst Freiherr von
including this Self-portrait with Albrecht Dürer’s The 0 yards 500 Laudon (1878), are part of
Lowered Head (1912). Hare, dated 1502). this museum’s collection.

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