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Discover the best top things to do in Vienna Region, Austria including Sigmund Freud Museum, The Third Man Museum, The Hofburg, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Hofjagd- und Rustkammer, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Remise Verkehrsmuseum, Wien Museum Hermesvilla, Leopold Museum.
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1. Sigmund Freud Museum
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5.0 based on 12 reviews
Newly renovated and enlarged, now open again since August 29: Sigmund Freud's former home and practice, now offering new permanent an temporary exhibitions and making accessible all rooms where the Freud family lived and worked for the first time. Learn all on Psychoanalysis, the Freud family's life and the world famous house Berggasse 19. New objects, artifacts and furniture on display!
2. The Third Man Museum
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5.0 based on 612 reviews
OPEN EVERY SATURDAY 2 - 6 pm! OPEN AGAIN from June 13, 2020 onwards!!! For more opening hours check our webpage ! The THIRD MAN MUSEUM is THE place to go but ONLY for film fans and all those interested in the post-war history of Vienna. Private museum without sponsors and without subsidies, but a 100% passion! The Third Man Museum contains much heart and soul. And you can feel it! EXCLUSIVE guided tours on any day of the week by request!
Reviewed By 163059
A must for film buffs and lovers of "The Third Man" film. Only open Saturdays 2-6 and most certainly worth a visit if your time in Vienna allows. Easy to get to - from Vienna Opera take bus 59A, 3 stops to Pressgasse, then 150m walk. Fabulous displays of film posters, photos, audio and video clips of scenes, characters etc. Copies of film scripts and a short piece of original film shown on a pre-war projector. Comprehensive display of photos, posters, newspapers etc of pre war Vienna and the city during and after WW2. Thanks to Gerhard and Karin for the time and effort they have put into creating this fabulous museum (Great to meet you both - Rob and Marg, Melbourne, Australia)
3. The Hofburg
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4.5 based on 12,521 reviews
For centuries the Vienna Hofburg was the centre of the Habsburg empire. Today the palace houses three museums which afford historically authentic insights into the traditions and everyday life of the imperial court: The Imperial Apartments with their original furnishings and decoration, the Sisi Museum with its sensitive staging of the empress' life, and the Imperial Silver Collection which contains a comprehensive range of tableware and other utensils used at the imperial court.
Reviewed By GoalieMarty - Ottawa, Canada
We took the Hofburg Vienna ticket which includes the Silver Collection, the Sisi Museum, and the Imperial Apartments with an included audio guide. We bought our tickets on the spot and did not even wait one minute in line. Not sure if it's always like that though. The visit starts with the Silver Collection. Lots and lots of everything you can possibly find on a table. For me, it was nice to see but I got a little bored at the end because I found there was too much and it gets somewhat overwhelming. The audio guide is also a bit dry in my opinion. "Exhibit 24: This silverware collection was designed by Italian master Giovanni Macaroni in 1829 for the visit of King Stradivarius IV who spent 2 weeks at the palace with his court, and bla-bla-bla ...". You get the idea. If you want to save time, I would suggest you skip the dishes. Or at least, don't listen to everything in the audio guide. The visit continues with the Sisi Museum which I found really interesting because it's about her life and all the people in it. Really well made and really well presented. The audio guide is also much more interesting this time around. The Imperial Apartments, the last third of the visit, are truly magnificent. You can feel the opulence and the wealth of this family. The audio guide is again very informative. Both the museum and the apartments are worth spending a little more time in there to take it all in. Overall, we really enjoyed our visit of the Imperial Palace. We also visited Schönbrunn Palace and based on our experience, I would recommend the following. If you want to visit both, start with the Imperial Palace first as Schönbrunn is even more grandiose. If you only have time for one, I would recommend Schönbrunn.
4. MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art
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4.5 based on 561 reviews
Discover the fascinating era of “VIENNA 1900” in the grand museum building on Vienna’s Ringstraße with art nouveau masterpieces of the Wiener Werkstätte by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, or Koloman Moser. Inaugurated in 1871, the building by Heinrich von Ferstel is one of the grandest works of architecture on Vienna’s Ringstraße. Today the MAK, originally founded as the “Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry”, accommodates a unique collection of precious art and craftwork from the fields of furniture, glass, porcelain, silver, and textiles from the middle ages to today. With more than 1 million objects and printed works it is one of the most important museums of its kind in the world. The spacious exhibition rooms were designed by contemporary artists and show selected highlights of the MAK Collection as well as temporary exhibitions in the field of design, art and architecture.
Reviewed By SusanWms - Santa Fe, United States
This museum has a magnificent collection of objects from the mid-19th century forward (when the school was founded). The collections are mainly organized typologically/chronologically, e.g. chairs, tables, glass table wares, porcelain, silver, textiles, etc., but there was a major interpretive exhibit running while we were there—“Vienna 1900.” Vienna was a hotbed of reformist ideas about decorative and applied eta—resulting in the Wiener Werkstadt and the Vienna Secessionist movement. Labels are clear and each gallery has a booklet with English translations of object labels. We spent three hour happily perusing the collections and then retreated to the excellent gift shop featuring a well-curated assortment of well-designed goods.
5. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
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4.5 based on 9,709 reviews
Experience one of the world's foremost museums! Let yourself be enchanted by works spanning five millennia, from Ancient Egypt to the modern era. Experience unique major works by Dürer, Raphael, Titian and Velázquez as well as the world's largest collection of Bruegel paintings, all in a magnificent setting. The Kunstkammer Vienna, featuring the famous Saliera by Benvenuto Cellini, is a veritable universe of art and beauty guaranteed to transform any visit into an unforgettable experience. Included in the ticket are the collections at the Neue Burg on the opposite side of Vienna's Ringstrasse. Here you will see the instruments used by the great composers and be transported back to chivalrous times when knights held sway and tourneys and hunting shaped courtly life.
Reviewed By Ina5555 - Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine
The museum was the main goal of my Vienna visit, but I never expected it to be such an excellent introduction into the city and palaces sculptures' motifs as well, underscoring how much power was assigned back then to the art as a means of ideological visual education. Having spent 1,5 days in the museum I have made plenty of personal discoveries and enjoyed new for me artworks (e.g. unexpected parallel to the modern popular mass culture is a 1524 'Arya Stark' self-portrait bearing uncanny resemblance, in fact Parmigianino's enchanting masterpiece). The discoveries haven't stopped after the museum visit ended, because the next day during sightseeing I realized I recognize many of the city and its palaces sculptures' motifs and whatever I used to know about the big name old masters the most influential of them in Vienna must be Luca Giordano's The Fall of the Rebel Angels, whenever I saw its impressive replicated Laocoon-like convulsion-wriggled figures conveying the ideals of Counter-Reformation to the empire subjects on the city streets. Just walking the city you can recognize in the city sculptures' many familiar motifs, not only Biblical but antique as well (Hercules lifting Antaeus, Amazons, etc). Practicalities of the museum visit: the air-conditioning wasn't felt at all in the big inner rooms with Roman numerals, I slightly felt it in the small outer rooms with Arabic numerals (as of 14th and 15th of July). Six or seven rooms were entirely closed for reconstruction during my two-day visit. For lockers you need either a 1 or 2 euro coin, but there's a manned storage facility as well. Backpacks have to be left in a locker, normal shoulder bags are OK. Photo of the permanent exhibition without a flash is allowed. Temporary exhibition: Yan van Eyck "Als Ich Can". Probably I somehow unfortunately missed it. In the room dedicated to the special exhibition (0.5 floor, the same floor as the Kunstkammer, Egyptian and Antique collections - beware indeed almost no English translations of the exhibits, an audio guide cannot make up for all of them; the Egyptian rooms maintain specific humidity level) I saw only few works by the painter, and few works by his contemporaries like Rogier van der Weyden. The museum building (as well as the whole square) is a stunning art object in its own right, specifically built to showcase the Habsburg art treasuries, its highlights are covered by audio guide, including Klimt, Munkacsy contributions. Seeing the interiors I couldn't help but felt as the Mask film protagonist having to recover my awestruck jaw from the floor. Really a mind-boggling shrine of a high art which symbols and messages are probably half-obscure nowadays.
6. Hofjagd- und Rustkammer
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4.5 based on 46 reviews
The Imperial Armoury is located in the second floor of the Weltmuseum Wien. It is packed full of magnificent suits of armour and decorative weapons that attest to chivalric values and important occasions at court and it is accessible via the gallery of the breathtaking Hall of Columns.
Reviewed By stevebG6121BX - London, United Kingdom
My wife and myself visited the Welt Museum this morning primarily - as my wife hails from New Zealand - to see the Captain Cook Collection. Whilst this was most enjoyable, the Armoury Collection - which must be one of the world’s most extensive - proved equally so. As such, for any enthusiast it is undoubtedly a must see!
7. MuseumsQuartier Wien
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4.5 based on 3,866 reviews
90,000 m², 60 cultural institutions - the MuseumsQuartier Wien is a place of art and crea tivity. You'll find renowned museums here, as wellas small cultural initiatives, classics of modernism and young artists of the current century. The spectrum ranges from the visual arts to architecture, music, fashion, theater, dance, literature and children's culture, to game culture, street art, design and photography. Innumerable cultural events also take place throughout the year in the courtyards of the MQ, featuring everything from dance performances, exhibition projects and film festivals to literary readings and even DJ line-ups.
Reviewed By JoeBaileyCole - Felino, Italy
There are at least four museums here in this recent addition to Vienna's cultural life constructed inside the former stables of the Hofburg palace. The Leopold Museum has one of the largest collection of the art of Egon Schiele, on of the most important of Viennese 20th Century artists along with many other paintings of the first decades of the 20th century by Kokoschka, Klimt, and architectural works by Loos, Hoffmann, and Wagner. The MUMOK museum has a very large rotating collection of 20th century art and special exhibitions. A very good restaurant is also in the building.
8. Remise Verkehrsmuseum
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4.5 based on 100 reviews
Take a journey through 150 years of public transport history! The Remise offers: > An Interactive Experience > Guided Tours > Audioguides particularly for Children > Audioguides for Adults in different languages > School offers > A Souvenir Shop with Special Products
Reviewed By John_w_92203 - Stowmarket, United Kingdom
What a great museum! Myself and son-in-law visited here at the End of November 2019, both of us transport fans. Lovely museum, well laid out and easy to navigate. Nice museum shop with some good products. Well worth a few hours.
9. Wien Museum Hermesvilla
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4.5 based on 43 reviews
Situated in an idyllic setting in the middle of the former imperial hunting grounds, now Lainzer Tiergarten, is the "Palace of Dreams", as Empress Elisabeth once called her villa. Emperor Francis Joseph gave it to her in the hope of persuading his wife – a keen traveller – to spend more time in Vienna.It took over five years for the famous Ringstrasse architect Carl von Hasenauer to build the villa, a model for many romantic country houses devised for the haute bourgeoisie. The villa took its name from the statue of "Hermes as Guardian" standing in the garden.What was domestic life like for an emperor and empress?This can be seen in an impressive exhibition on the history of the house arranged on the first floor - photographs, plans and documents, above all the still existent parts of the original furnishings, and many personal items belonging to the emperor and empress convey the imperial lifestyle away from official court etiquette. The empress’s bedroom is equally sensational. The huge royal bed is from the time of Maria Theresa, the murals depict motifs from Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" after designs by Hans Makart.Renowned historicist artists, among them Franz Matsch, Hugo Charlemont, Georg and Gustav Klimt, designed the interior of the imperial private apartment. Sisi was very body-conscious and performed her physical exercises in the gym, similarly furnished in bright colours.On the top floor, visitors will find highlights of the Wien Museum’s internationally famous fashion collection, one of the most comprehensive throughout Europe!The Hermesvilla is also popular as a venue for notable special exhibitions on topics of cultural history. No other place in Vienna can offer such a combination of art, culture and the enjoyment of nature!
Reviewed By j_balint - Budapest, Hungary
If you are still living inside of the cult of Romy Schneider, let’s forget everything you know! In this mansion house Elisabeth of Wittelsbach passed only 8 times in her life! She was an extremely vain and inconstant woman. Her unstable personality made it complicated the possibility for the integration. This facility it’s inside one of the most amused parks of Vienna, and the halls are fulfilled with good photo – topics. Despite of this I think is terrible absurd that even in the 21. century the Austrians believe that their language is spoken everywhere. This foolish and uncomprehending behavior is not good for the tourism. Above every single exhibition guideline the descriptions are in german without an appropriate english translation. Please, don’t come with your cheap information maps, the two-language is synonym of acceptance and conformation!
10. Leopold Museum
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4.5 based on 2,730 reviews
The Leopold Museum is a unique treasure-house of Viennese Jugendstil, the Wiener Werkstätte and Expressionism. It is the most-visited museum of the city's hottest cultural site, the MuseumsQuartier, and it houses the most significant and largest Egon Schiele collection in the world, as well as masterworks by Secession founder Gustav Klimt. Tip: The museum's panorama windows offer a wonderful view of central Vienna with Maria Theresa Square and the Hofburg Palace.
Reviewed By HassanElNahas - Cairo, Egypt
Despite the very many great museums in Vienna, the Leopoldo Museum remains my favorite. It hosts a very large section on the exceedingly talented Egon Schiele and another on the World Famous Gustav Klimt. They also do an excellent job explaining how the Secession Movement came about in Austria and the contributions by its various founding members. The Leopold also hosts excellent visiting exhibitions. This time round there was one in German Expressionism and another on Schiele was to open tomorrow. I will need to go back again tomorrow. PS the Leopold Cafe on the 2nd floor is excellent for a bite n a drink.
