Museums/Parks:
Austria

ABOVE: A statue guards the Belvedere Palace, Vienna.

General

Austrian National Parks
Download park guides, maps, and videos from the Web site of the Federal Ministry for Environment, Youth, and Family. In German; translate with AltaVista.

Lower Austria

Carnuntum
Explore Roman ruins and visit the archaeological museum at Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, an hour by train from Vienna.

Die Sammlung Essl
Modern art is the specialty here. The museum is in Klosterneuburg, not far from Vienna. Translate with AltaVista.

Naturpark Gemeindeau-Heidenreichstein  
Explore a circular path that leads through woods and moorland. The park also has a viewing platform where you can observe birds on a large pond.

Upper Austria

Mauthausen Memorial
Jewish and non-Jewish prisoners from all over Europe were worked to death at the Mauthausen concentration camp between 1938 and 1945. (Click "English" at the bottom of the home page for an overview.)

Vienna

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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