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Vienna offers collections of world standing as well as real secret tips. Geniuses of the century like Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele meet the stars of contemporary Vienna.

Current Exhibitions

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, exhibition hall

Exhibition highlights in December

Vienna's museums and galleries invite you to discover new and spectacular ...

Current blockbuster exhibitions in Vienna

It's peak season in Vienna's museums in the autumn: The city's art tankers ...

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Cultural highlights in Vienna

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Albertina, Albrecht Dürer, Young Hare

Museums: Opening hours for the holidays

Vienna’s museums will stay open for you even at Christmas and on New Year’s ...

View of the Upper Belvedere

300 years of the Belvedere

A major special exhibition marks the start of the 300th anniversary. It ...

Painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, La Hara, 1981

Symbolism from New York

The Albertina dedicates its major autumn exhibition to Jean-Michel Basquiat, ...

Image montage: Tiziano Vecellio, gen. Titian (Girl in a Fur), and Peter Paul Rubens, Helena Fourment (The Fur Robe)

Art competition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

This autumn, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is putting on a major ...

Exhibition view, George Nuku, Weltmuseum Wien (World Museum Vienna)

Spectacular plastic landscapes

Māori artist George Nuku invites you to debate an exciting mix of issues in ...

Harry Potter exhibition

Magical Harry Potter premiere in Vienna

Harry Potter: The exhibition celebrates its European premiere in Vienna's ...

In the footsteps of Banksy

The exhibition "The Mystery of Banksy - A Genius Mind" brings the ...

Upper Belvedere

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View of Vienna's MuseumsQuartier from above

Top museums in Vienna

Vienna is a powerhouse of art – the cultural offering is incredibly diverse. More than 100 museums are waiting for you to discover them.

View of Vienna's MuseumsQuartier from above

Top museums in Vienna

Vienna is a powerhouse of art – the cultural offering is incredibly diverse. More than 100 museums are waiting for you to discover them.

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Mythos Mozart - Room Mozart Forever

Fireworks of museum openings

Over the next few months and years, the capital of culture is set to welcome ...

Heidi Horten Collection

A new museum hotspot for Vienna: Art patron Heidi Goëss-Horten makes her ...

Discover the Ring with ivie´s audio walk

The app knows the top museum along the Ring - and much more.

Wall paintings at Wiedner Hauptstrasse 78: Kruella d'Enfer interprets Schiele's "Female Nude Lying on her Stomach" and the Brazilian artist Kobra's "Klimt with Cat"

Street Art in Vienna: Color Burst

You might think that the whole of Vienna is an exhibition as you stroll ...

Amoako Boafo, Portrait

Viennese Modernism Revisited

The hottest art on the US market right now has its roots deep in Vienna. ...

Klimt: Faculty image on Medicine

Klimt reconstructed: Machine Painting

Initially mired in scandal, then seized and Aryanized, Gustav Klimt's ...

Depot of the Leopold Museum with a view of paintings hanging on grid walls

Art depots: In hiding

Carefully wrapped, hung on wire mesh, and meticulously ordered. Come with us ...

Supermarket of Art

Supermarket of Art

The popular Kunstsupermarkt (Art Supermarket) is back: The 16th edition once ...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Tower of Babel, 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

Bruegel as a 360° experience

Bruegel is coming to your home. The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is ...

Florentina Pakosta in a studio

Ten Questions for Florentina Pakosta

She grew up in Vienna in the 1930s and 1940s, studied art in Paris, Prague ...

"Never-ending source of inspiration"

Director Lilli Hollein, who has headed up the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, ...

Portrait photography by gallery owner Florian Appelt in his gallery "Kunst ab Hinterhof, which means Art from the backyard

Ten questions for Florian Appelt

A gallery owner who is not one and why art does not have to be expensive? ...

Founder "Museum des Hinaufschauens" (Looking up Museum)): Magdalena Hiller and Gabriel Roland

Look up

What do you do when the city's museums are closed? That's right, you quickly ...

Gallery rooms of Kunst ab Hinterhof (which means art from the backyard)

Kunst ab Hinterhof

Art for everyone. And above all for every wallet. That is what is offered by ...

Even more art

mumok, Museum of Modern Art, exterior shot, MuseumsQuartier

Contemporary Art in Vienna

National and international artists have long known Vienna as a creative ...

MuseumsQuartier

MuseumsQuartier

Vienna's sensational art area near the Imperial Palace draws visitors not ...

Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt in Vienna

Many of Klimt's works, especially those from his early years, are on ...

Vienna's green museums

They're world-famous, unique – and green! Sustainable museums in Vienna are ...

Visitor standing in front of the painting "Tower of Babel" by Pieter Bruegel at the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna

Six museum treasures in Vienna that are all worth a visit

Vienna's museums are home to some very special treasures. A unique feather ...

Wall installation by Peter Sandbichler at Vienna Central Station

Art in the public domain

Works of art can not only be seen in Vienna’s museums and galleries. Art in ...

Family in the Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna marvels at dinosaurs

The best museums for children

Vienna boasts about 100 museums and collections – from very little ones to ...

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

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

Gigantic mural by Golif on Vienna's Gürtel

Art on the fringe

The biggest repositories of art and most galleries are found in the center ...

The Ritz-Carlton Albertina Suite

A night with Warhol, Monet, Chagall & Co.

Vienna is art. And it can be marveled at not only in the museums. We show ...

Street art in Vienna

VIENNA/NOW Tour: Street Art

Some of the best street artists in the world have immortalized themselves on ...

Approaching art from a new angle

Vienna’s museums have found a number of ingenious ways to make their ...

Extraordinary museums

Seven unusual museums in Vienna

What do chimney sweeps, magic and torture have in common? They all have ...

movie poster from The 3rd Man

Magnificently curious: Vienna's unusual museums

Whether trying out lying in a casket, Otto Wagner's Stadtbahn toilet or ...

Collection of Anatomical Pathology in the Madhouse Tower

Collection of Anatomical Pathology in the Madhouse Tower – NHM

The museum is housed in the so-called Fool's Tower. This ...

Weltmuseum Wien

Weltmuseum Wien

The Weltmuseum Wien on Heldenplatz shows valuable treasures from around the ...

Museum of Military History

The Museum of Military History examines the history of the Habsburg Monarchy ...

The Third Man Museum

The Third Man Museum is a meeting place for people interested in film and a ...

Technical Museum, exterior view

Museum of Technology

The Vienna Museum of Technology offers extraordinary insights into the world ...

Funeral Museum

The Funeral Museum at Vienna's Central Cemetery gives insights into the ...

"Remise" Transport Museum

The new Transport Museum of Wiener Linien was created in the former Erdberg ...

Woman with a blindman's stick

Dialogue in the Dark

Anyone who has ever wanted to know how blind people perceive the world now ...

Three women in an inclined position

Museum of Illusions

This extraordinary museum has holograms, stereograms and optical illusions ...

Tea service made of porcelain

Porcelain Museum in the Augarten

A museum in the former imperial pleasure building in the Augarten ...

House of Music. The Sound Museum

House of Music

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

Literature Museum

The Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library presents the history ...

Entrance portal

House of Austrian History

A hundred years after the founding of the First Republic, the new House of ...

Exhibition view

Dom Museum Wien

The Dom Museum Wien right next door to St. Stephen's Cathedral shows ...

Jewish museums

Sigmund Freud's study in the newly renovated Sigmund Freud Museum

Sigmund Freud Museum

Vienna's most famous address opened its doors again in 2020 after 18 months ...

Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum on Dorotheergasse provides an overview of the history and ...

Teaser photo for Jewish Vienna Tour

VIENNA/NOW: Jewish Vienna Tour

In this video, we go with Adia on a tour of Jewish Vienna. Discover Jewish ...

Judenplatz Museum

Museum Judenplatz Vienna

Judenplatz is considered a singular place of remembrance; it combines three ...

Viktor Frankl Museum

A museum is dedicated to the world-famous founder of logotherapy and ...