Kunsthistorisches Museum
One of the most important art museums in the world, home to The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Vienna Highlights
Schönbrunn Palace
The baroque summer residence of the Habsburgs, featuring 1,441 rooms and a vast garden.
Natural History Museum
A mecca for natural history enthusiasts, probably the best museum of its kind in Europe, home to Venus of Willendorf.
Upper Belvedere
Baroque palace housing the world’s largest collection of Gustav Klimt paintings, including The Kiss.
Sisi Museum
The former imperial palace of the Habsburgs, the Hofburg, today houses a museum devoted to Empress Elisabeth.
House of Austrian History
Museum dedicated to Austrian history from the end of World War I to today, and German history from 1938 to 1945.
Albertina
The Albertina holds a large collection of drawings & prints as well as a fine collection of modern art.
Musikverein
The Society of Friends of Music boasts the finest concert hall in the world, praised for its excellent acoustics.
Vienna Museum of Science and Technology
Museum showcasing the historical development of innovation & technology.
Austrian National Library
The library’s baroque State Hall, noted for its elaborately decorated dome & numerous frescoes, is just magnificent.
Further Recommendations
Albertina Modern
Museum of modern & contemporary art.
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.
Augustinian Church
Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art
Austrian Postal Savings Bank
Post office by architect Otto Wagner, now a café.
Belvedere 21
Contemporary art museum.
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 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.
Franciscan Church
Funeral Museum
Globe Museum
Terrestrial & celestial globes, mainly from before 1850.
Hermes Villa
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.
Kammeroper
Opera house.
Karl-Marx-Hof
Marxist housing estate with an exhibition on Red Vienna.
Karlsplatz Pavilion
Metro 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.
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.
Mozart House
Mozart lived there from 1784 to 1787.
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.
Papyrus Museum
Papyri from antique & early medieval Egypt.
Plague Column
Baroque monument to the victims of the Great Plague in 1679.
Prater
Vienna’s funfair.
Prater Museum
Museum dedicated to the history of Vienna’s funfair (est. 1766).
Restaurant Figlmüller
Home of the schnitzel.
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.
St Charles’ Church
Baroque cathedral.
Steinhof Memorial
Former Nazi medical crimes site.
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.