Kunsthistorisches Museum
Museum of fine art, antiquities, & other stuff.
Vienna Highlights
Schönbrunn Palace
Empress Sisi’s summer residence.
Hofburg
The imperial apartments of the Habsburgs.
Upper Belvedere
Baroque palace housing the world’s largest collection of Gustav Klimt paintings, including The Kiss.
Natural History Museum
Home to Venus of Willendorf.
Vienna Museum of Science and Technology
House of Austrian History
Austrian history from the end of World War I to the present.
Musikverein
The Society of Friends of Music in Vienna boasts the finest concert hall in the world.
Further Recommendations
Albertina Modern
Museum of modern art.
Albertina
Art museum, home to Albrecht Dürer’s hare.
Amalienbad Pool
Art nouveau & art deco indoor swimming pool.
Anker Clock
Art nouveau clock by painter & sculptor Franz Matsch.
Aqua Terra Zoo
Architekturzentrum Wien
Architecture museum.
Augustinerkirche
Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art
Austrian National Library
The library’s baroque State Hall, with its intricately decorated dome, is home to over 200,000 tomes & four Venetian globes.
Austrian Postal Savings Bank
Post office by architect Otto Wagner.
Belvedere 21
Contemporary art museum.
Belvederegarten
Botanical Garden
Buffet Trześniewski
This sandwich shop’s most popular sandwich is Speck mit Ei.
Burgtheater
Theatre by by architects Gottfried Semper & Karl von Hasenauer.
Butterfly House
Café Central
Trotsky & Freud used to be regulars here.
Café Diglas
Seit 1875.
Café Hofburg
The place for Kaiserschmarren, the Emperor’s favourite pancake.
Café Landtmann
Posh café serving apple strudel from Schönbrunn Palace’s bakery.
Café Mozart
Café Museum
Former hangout for Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele & others.
Café Residenz
Their Hofbackstube offers an apple strudel baking course.
Café Sacher
Home of the Sachertorte.
Capuchin Crypt
Imperial crypt of the Habsburgs.
Church of St Leopold
Art nouveau church by architect Otto Wagner.
City Hall
Flemish Gothic town hall by architect Friedrich Schmidt.
Clock Museum
Seven hundred clocks from around the globe.
Danube Tower
Dom Museum Wien
Museum housing the cathedral’s sacred & historic treasures.
Ernst Fuchs Museum
Villa by architect Otto Wagner, now a museum.
Esperanto Museum
Esperantomuzeo kaj Kolekto por Planlingvoj.
Fools Tower
The Natural History Museum’s pathological-anatomical collection.
Franziskanerkirche
Funeral Museum
Gedenkstätte Steinhof
Former Nazi medical crimes site.
Gelateria Paolo Bortolotti
Italian ice-cream parlour.
Gelateria Zanoni & Zanoni
Italian ice-cream parlour.
Gerstner K.u.K. Hofzuckerbäcker
Kaiserlich & Königlich.
Globe Museum
Terrestrial & celestial globes, mainly from before 1850.
Hermesvilla
Empress Elisabeth’s villa by architect Karl von Hasenauer.
Hofburg Chapel
Home to the Hofmusikkapelle.
Holocaust Memorial
Memorial to the murdered Jews of Austria.
Hundertwasser House
Apartment building by artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser & architect Joseph Krawina.
Imperial Carriage Museum
Imperial Court Pavilion
Metropolitan railway station for Emperor Franz Joseph by architect Otto Wagner.
Imperial Furniture Collection
Furniture museum.
Imperial Treasury
Home to the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire.
Jesuit Church
Baroque church.
Jewish Museum Vienna
Josephinum
Collections of the University of Vienna’s Medical Faculty.
Julius Meinl am Graben
Upmarket gourmet shop.
Kammeroper
Opera house.
Karl-Marx-Hof
Marxist housing estate with an exhibition on Red Vienna.
Karlskirche
Baroque cathedral.
Karlsplatz Pavilion
Metropolitan railway station featuring an exhibition dedicated to architect Otto Wagner.
Kunst Haus Wien
Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s museum.
Leopold Museum
Contemporary Austrian art museum.
Liechtenstein City Palace
Neoclassical & Biedermeier art.
Liechtenstein Garden Palace
Artworks from the early Renaissance to the High Baroque.
Loos House
Functionalist office building by architect Adolf Loos.
Lower Belvedere
Art gallery.
Majolica House
Cheery landmark building by architect Otto Wagner.
MAK
Museum of applied art for Wiener Werkstätte stuff.
Maria am Gestade
Gothic church.
Marionette Theatre Schönbrunn Palace
Puppet theatre.
Minoritenkirche
Mothwurf
Upmarket shop for dirndls & lederhosen.
Mozart House
Mozart lived there from 1784 to 1787.
Mühlbauer Hat Makers
Cheaper hats are sold elsewhere.
MUMOK
Contemporary art museum.
MUSA Museum
Contemporary art gallery.
Museum Judenplatz
Museum of Military History
They have Franz Ferdinand’s car from Sarajevo here.
Neidhart Festsaal
Secular frescoes depicting Minnesinger Neidhart von Reuental.
Österreichische Werkstätten
Shop selling Wiener Werkstätte & art nouveau stuff.
Palais Epstein
City palace by architect Theophil Hansen.
Papyrus Museum
Papyri from antique & early medieval Egypt.
Patisserie Oberlaa
Plague Column
Baroque monument to the victims of the Great Plague in 1679.
Prater Museum
Museum dedicated to the history of Vienna’s funfair (est. 1766).
Prater
Vienna’s funfair #nogoarea.
Republic of Kugelmugel
Micronation by artist Edwin Lipburger.
Restaurant Figlmüller
Home of the schnitzel.
Restaurant Reinthaler’s Beisl
They only accept cash.
Roman Museum
Vienna in Roman times.
Schönbrunn Zoo
The world’s oldest zoo.
Secession
Art nouveau art gallery by architect Joseph Olbrich, featuring Gustav Klimt’s Beethovenfries.
Sigmund Freud Museum
Museum dedicated to the life & work of the famous shrink.
Soviet War Memorial
Monument to the Red Army.
Spanish Riding School
Lipizzaners going around in circles.
Steffl
Iconic luxury department store.
St Michael’s Church
St Peter’s Church
St Ruprecht’s Church
The oldest church in Vienna.
St Stephen’s Cathedral
Medieval church.
St Virgil’s Chapel
Subterranean Gothic chapel at Stephansplatz underground station.
Theater an der Wien
Opera house.
Theatre Museum
Theseus Temple
Transport Museum Remise
Public transport museum.
Vienna Porcelain Manufactory Augarten
The successor to Europe’s second-oldest porcelain manufactory (1718–1864).
Vienna State Opera
Opera house.
Volkstheater
Theatre.
Votive Church
Gothic Revival church, built 1856–79.
Weltmuseum Wien
Ethnographic museum.
Werkbund Estate
Red Vienna housing programme.
Wiener Konzerthaus
Concert hall.
Wien Museum
Local history museum.
Wotruba Church
Brutalist church by sculptor Fritz Wotruba.
ZOOM Children’s Museum
Zuckerlwerkstatt
Candy shop for sweets aficionados.