Vienna Museums/Sights

ABOVE: Coach Museum, Schönbrunn Palace.

House of Music austriaforvisitors.com
Conduct a virtual Vienna Philharmonic, create your own composition, or get visual feedback on your singing in Vienna's new Haus der Musik museum.

Vienna's Museum Quarter austriaforvisitors.com
The new MuseumsQuartier Wien is the museum world's answer to shopping malls, with 20 institutions sharing an architecturally stunning complex of new and old buildings.

Schönbrunn Palace austriaforvisitors.com
Empress Maria Theresia's summer cottage has nearly 1,500 rooms. It's surrounded by lovely gardens and the world's oldest zoo.

St. Stephen's Cathedral austriaforvisitors.com
Admire the nave, tour the catacombs, and climb the tower of Austria's greatest church.

Albertina
This world-renowned graphics collection has accumulated some 65,000 drawings and 1,000,000 engravings over the last two centuries.

Generali Foundation
Since its opening in 1988, the Generali has evolved into one of Austria's leading privately funded art museums.

Hundertwasser Haus Wien
The residents of a remarkable apartment building designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000) have created a Web site with photos, history, and other information.

Jewish Museum
In addition to exhibits related to Jewish culture, this museum has a library stocked with 25,000 books, manuscripts, and other works. Translate with AltaVista.

Künstlerhaus
Click the graphic to enter the k/haus, which has been Vienna's art history museum since 1868. Translate with AltaVista.

Museum of Military History
Vienna's oldest museum has weapons, costumes, and other exhibits from the 16th to 20th Centuries.

Museum of Modern Art - Ludwig Foundation
MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst) occupies two buildings and is the largest museum of modern art in Central Europe.

Schmetterlinghaus
Commune with butterflies in Emperor Franz Josef's greenhouses, just 200 meters from the Vienna Opera.

Secession
The Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession was founded in 1897. Exhibitions are planned and selected by the association's artists.

Sigmund Freud Museum
Check your neuroses at the door when you tour the consulting rooms and study.

Der Tiergarten Schönbrunn
The Schönbrunn Zoo claims to be the world's oldest, although it has been modernized with new technology over the past few decades.

Verein für Kaffeekultur
In Vienna, Kaffee is taken seriously, and a Society for Coffee Culture is trying to build a museum that will celebrate "coffee from the plant to the cup." Translate with AltaVista.

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