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Exploring Vienna’s Museums The Applied Arts
and Galleries and Interiors Glass by Josef Hoffmann in the
Lobmeyr Museum
On display in the Austrian
Vienna’s museums exhibit an amazing variety of fine, decorative Museum of Applied Arts is
and ethnic art from all periods of history and from different a rich collection of the
regions of the world. Visitors can enjoy ancient antiquities, decorative arts, including
Medieval religious art and a huge collection of 19th- and Oriental carpets, medieval
20th-century paintings, including works by some of history’s ecclesiastical garments,
Biedermeier and Jugendstil
finest artists. There is also a range of museums dedicated to furniture, and the archives of
specialist subjects such as military history, music and crime. the Wiener Werkstätte. The
Wien Museum Karlsplatz
Interior of Friedensreich Hundert wasser’s houses reconstructed versions
prepared to make a Kunsthaus Wien of the poet Franz Grillparzer’s
Ancient and Medieval Art
short journey out from the apartment as well as Adolf
Vienna has marvellous centre of Vienna. The Ephesos Judgment, which contains some Loos’s (see p94) drawing room.
collections of medieval art. Museum of the Hofburg of the most horrifying images In the Silber kammer of the
The Neidhart Fresco House houses ancient Roman and in Christan art. There are also Hofburg is a dazzling array of Finding the Museums
contains medieval secular Greek antiquities unearthed paintings by Johannes Vermeer dinner services collected by Natural History and
Science
frescoes, while a number of at the turn of the century. (1632–75) and Peter Paul the Habsburgs. The Lobmeyr Academy of Fine Arts p142
superb Gothic altarpieces can Rubens (1577–1640). The Museum exhibits glassware Still occupying the building Albertina p104
be seen in the historic Palace ground floor of the Upper designed by Josef Hoffmann. constructed for it in the 19th Austrian Museum of Applied
Stables at the Belvedere. Old Masters Belvedere focuses on Austrian century is the impressive Arts pp84–5
Displayed in the Cathedral painting and sculpture from Naturhistorisches Museum, Belvedere pp154–9
Museum are outstanding The picture gallery in the the 17th and 18th centuries. which has mineralogy, zoology Bestattungsmuseum
p170
Gothic sculptures as well as Kunsthistorisches Museum The Belvedere itself is a master- and dinosaur exhibits, and a Cathedral Museum p80
masterpieces of applied art; the has one of the best collections piece of Baroque architecture. planetarium. The Josephinum Clock Museum p88
highlight is a 9th-century of Old Masters in the world, houses a range of wax Deutschordenskirche p78
Carolingian Gospel. The Sacred reflecting the tastes of the anatomical models, while the Ephesos Museum p97
and Secular Treasuries in the many generations of Habsburg Technical Museum documents Geymüllerschlössel p162
Hofburg are awash with collectors who formed it. There 19th- and 20th- the contribution Austria has Haus der Musik p82
Century Art
precious medieval objects, are works by Flemish and made to developments in Heeresgeschichtliches
including the insignia and Venetian artists, and the best A permanent display of 19th- technology, ranging from Museum pp168–9
crown of the Holy Roman collection of Bruegels on and 20th-century Austrian art is homemade items such as an Hofjagd und Rüstkammer
Emperor, and a unique display in any art gallery, as housed in the Upper Belvedere. amateur wooden typewriter, p97
collection of medieval objects well as Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s The most famous works are by to the invention of the car. Josephinum p113
and Gothic paintings is on (1527–93) curious portraits Gustav Klimt. Beethoven Frieze is Klosterneuburg p163
display in the treasury of the composed of fruit and regarded as one of the master- Kriminalmuseum p166
Deutschordenskirche. The vegetables. The Academy of pieces of Viennese Art Nouveau Picture clock in the Clock Museum Ethnology and Folklore Kunst Haus Wien p235
splendours of the Verduner Altar Fine Arts houses some fine and can be seen in the Vienna’s Museum of Ethnology Kunsthistorisches Museum
at Klosterneuburg await those examples of Dutch and Flemish Secession Building. Specialist Museums in the Hofburg, the Weltmuseum pp124–9
works, its prize exhibit The Museum of Modern Wien, contains objects from Leopold Museum p122
being Hieronymos Art, located in the Museums- Clock enthusiasts should visit all over the world (see p97). Lobmeyr Museum p107
Museum of Modern Art Ludwig
Bosch’s triptych Quartier (see p122), shows the Clock Museum and the There are artifacts from Mexico, Foundation Vienna p122
of The Last the work of 20th- century Sobek Clock and Watch a collection of musical Naturhistorisches Museum
European artists. Included Collection at the Geymüller­ instruments, masks and textiles pp130–31
are pieces by the Viennese schlössel. Music is celebrated from the Far East, a collection Neidhart Fresco House p95
avant-garde. at the Sammlung Alter Musik­ from Benin in West Africa and Österreichisches Filmmuseum
The Leopold Museum instrumente, while the darker a section dedicated to Eskimo p230
has an enormous Egon side of life can be seen at the culture. The Volkskunde Sacred and Secular Treasuries
Schiele collection, as well as Kriminalmuseum, and at the Museum, housed in pp102–3
Expressionist and Austrian Bestattungsmuseum, which is the Schönborn Palace Sammlung Alter
interwar paintings. The dedicated to funeral customs, in Josefstadt, explores Musikinstrumente p97
work of Friedensreich burial rites and the Viennese traditional Austrian Secession Building p142
Hundertwasser, perspective on death. The folk culture Silberkammer p103
perhaps Vienna’s Heeresgeschichtliches through a Technical Museum p172
best-known modern Museum explores Austria’s range of items, Volkskunde Museum
artist, is on show at military past and the Hofjagd some dating p117
Weltmuseum Wien
the Kunst Haus Wien. und Rüstkammer exhibits from the 17th p97
Prints, drawings and historical weaponry. Other and 19th centuries. Wien Museum Karlsplatz
photographs are specialist museums include the p150
housed in the Österreichisches Filmmuseum Benin carving in the
Parthian monument (around AD 170) in the Ephesos Museum Albertina. and the Haus der Musik. Weltmuseum Wien

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