Museums and exhibitions in Vienna

Vienna has over 100 museums – major collections of global caliber and bizarre little ones. Visit them, look at them, marvel at them.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Emperor Franz Joseph in dress uniform around 1910

Emperor Franz Joseph: 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of his death

Emperor Franz Joseph died in Schönbrunn Palace on 21 November 1916. A number of exhibitions in Vienna …

Kunst Haus Wien

25 years of Kunst Haus Wien

The museum designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser houses the world's only permanent exhibition of the visionary artist and is dedicated to the …

Amy Winehouse

Jewish world stars

The exhibition "Stars of David" in the Jewish Museum Vienna turns the spotlight on world stars of the music business.

Oskar Kokoschka: Karl Kraus II, 1925

Pioneers of Post-War Modern Art

An exhibition at the mumok is dedicated to the creative works of two important collectors of art post-1945: Werner Hofmann and Viktor …

Milliner Shmuel Shapira in Vienna (he took over the Szaszi hat salon, founded in 1898)

Hats off!

Hats had and have a meaning. An exhibition at the Wien Museum examines the symbolism of head coverings.

Last Judgment triptych

Hieronymus Bosch and the Last Judgment

To mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, the Picture Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts is showing two …

Kiesler's model for an "Endless House", New York, 1959

Friedrich Kiesler: Visionary of Modernism

Friedrich Kiesler still fascinates artists to this day with his revolutionary and utopian ideas, as is impressively demonstrated …

Vincent van Gogh: The Sower, 1888

Spot on

Pointillism, or "dot art", was one of the most fascinating chapters in art history. The Albertina has decided to honor this and will show works by Seurat, Signac, …

Still from the film "Ecstasy" with Hedy Lamarr (Ö 1933, director: Gustav Machatý)

Sex in Vienna

Amorous adventures have a tradition in Vienna. Many of them were legal, but some took place in secret for all sorts of reasons. - An exhibition at the Wien …

Overmodeled ancestral skull

Picasso and tribal art

The art of the indigenous peoples of Africa and Oceania is only superficially primitive and served as inspiration for important painters of the …

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller: Corpus Christi Morning, 1857

Biedermeier! Or is it?

A unique art genre developed during the Biedermeier period between the Vienna Congress and the bourgeois revolution of 1848. This is demonstrated by …

Visualization of the exhibition "Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel" in the Votive Church

Sistine Chapel in Vienna

A spectacular exhibition with photographs from the image archive of leading photographer Erich Lessing brings the Sistine Chapel to Vienna.

Netsuke "The Hare with Amber Eyes"

Edmund de Waal meets Albrecht Dürer

The best-selling author Edmund de Waal has put together a very special exhibition for the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.

Vienna Now

Dive into Vienna's art scene – with VIENNA / NOW

VIDEO: Experience the classics of art history and discover highlights of the avant-garde ...

Marie Bonaparte takes a picture in Freud's study in Vienna 1937

Women in psychoanalysis

The exhibition shows the significant influence that women had on Sigmund Freud’s work and on the field of psychoanalysis.

Woman with a blindman's stick

Dialogue in the Dark

Anyone who has ever wanted to know how blind people perceive the world now has the opportunity to learn about it in Vienna's Schottenstift during …

Kunsthalle, MuseumsQuartier

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MYPERFECTDAY in Vienna

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Phantastenmuseum, Gerhard Strassgschwandtner

Video: Off-Beat-Museums

Vienna has always been one of the world’s greatest cities for museums. The capital’s 300-­strong list of exhibition venues includes a number of …

Two girls feeling felt anemones

Museums for children

Vienna boasts about 100 museums and collections - from very little ones to very big ones. And some of them are ideal for children.

Albertina

Art in the Evening

From the Albertina to the House of Music: Many Viennese museums keep their doors open for visitors until late in the evening.

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Relief

Approaching art from a new angle

Vienna’s museums have found a number of ingenious ways to make their exhibitions more accessible to visually impaired and deaf visitors.

Museum of Modern Art - mumok

Contemporary Art in Vienna

Lots of contemporary art is on presentation in Vienna alongside Baroque opulence. The creative Austrian and international art scene has long …

Salt cellar 'Saliera' by Benvenuto Cellini

Kunstkammer Vienna

More than 2,100 valuable objects, which were collected by the emperors and archdukes of Habsburg over centuries, are on display in the Kunstkammer …

Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Art History Museum)

The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum) was built in 1891 near the Imperial Palace to house the extensive …

Albertina

Albertina

The Albertina not only has the largest and most valuable graphical collections in the world, with works such as Dürer’s “Hare” and Klimt's studies of women. Its …

Trams in the Transport Museum

"Remise" Transport Museum

The new Transport Museum of Wiener Linien was created in the former Erdberg depot in 2014. It shows historic and modern vehicles and offers …

Liechtenstein Garden Palace

Liechtenstein Garden Palace

One of the biggest Rubens collections and key works by van Dyck, Lucas Cranach and Raffael can be admired, as can works by Rembrandt, van …

Ballroom in Liechtenstein City Palace

Liechtenstein City Palace

After extensive renovations, the Liechtenstein City Palace shines with a new gleam.

Belvedere

Belvedere

See Gustav Klimt's legendary painting "The Kiss" as well as major works by Schiele and Kokoschka for yourself. You’ll be delighted by the magnificent ba-roque …

Interior shot of the Literature Museum

Literature Museum

The Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library presents the history of Austrian literature from the 18th century until today.

Wien Museum Karlsplatz

Vienna Museum Karlsplatz

Here, the history of Vienna is documented, starting with the first settlements on the Danube and the Vindobona camp on the northern border of the …

Leopold Museum

MuseumsQuartier

Vienna’s exciting art complex near the Imperial Palace offers not only renowned museums such as the Leopold Museum, with its numerous works by Schiele, the …

Kunst Haus Wien

Kunst Haus Wien

Colorful areas, irregular forms, many grown over with lush green plants: this is how painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928 - 2000) encouraged new …

MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art

MAK - Museum for Applied Arts

Design is one of the main features of MAK. The museum shows furniture, glass, china, silver, and textiles from the Middle Ages to the present …

Dritte Mann Museum

The Third Man Museum

The Third Man Museum is a meeting place for people interested in film and a door-opener to Vienna’s post-war history. In addition to the extensive …

Interior shot of the Funeral Museum

Funeral Museum

The Funeral Museum at Vienna's Central Cemetery gives insights into the funeral and cemetery culture of past centuries.

Museum of Natural History

Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna (Natural History Museum)

The history of the earth and the breathtaking variety of nature can be practically experienced due to 20 million …

Hieronymus Bosch, The Last Judgment, inner side

Academy of Fine Arts, Picture Gallery

The Academy of Fine Arts was built from 1872 to 1876 according to plans by Theophil Hansen. Its Picture Gallery shows valuable works …

House of Music

House of Music

Vienna, the city of music, there is also a place where you will be "all ears."

Front view of the Museum of Military History

Museum of Military History

The Museum of Military History examines the history of the Habsburg Monarchy from the end of the 16th century to the end of the monarchy in 1918, …

Technical Museum, exterior view

Museum of Technology

The Vienna Museum of Technology offers extraordinary insights into the world of technology in a space of 22,000 square meters.

BA-CA Kunstforum, entrance

Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien

The Bank Austria Kunstforum of Vienna chiefly displays art from the classic and modern period and postwar avant-garde.

Figure of “Vanity”

Porcelain Museum in the Augarten

A museum in the former imperial pleasure building in the Augarten illustrates the history of Viennese porcelain from its beginnings to …

Viktor Frankl Museum Vienna

Viktor Frankl Museum

A museum is dedicated to the world-famous founder of logotherapy and existential analysis, Viktor E. Frankl, in the 9th district.

View of the main niche of St. Vergilius Chapel

Medieval Vergilius Chapel

The Vergilius Chapel next to St. Stephen’s Cathedral is one of the best-preserved Gothic interiors in Vienna.