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Klosterneuburg Abbey is an Augustinian monastery above the Danube just north of Vienna, founded in 1114 by Margrave Leopold III and his wife Agnes. The Baroque complex was built mostly between 1730 and 1834, and the church has neo-Gothic twin towers. Its treasures include the Verdun Altar of 1181 by Nicholas of Verdun, with 45 gilded copper plates.
Albertina Klosterneuburg is a branch of Vienna's Albertina for contemporary art, in the building designed by Heinz Tesar for the Essl Museum, which showed the Essl collection from 1999 to 2016. The collection passed to the Albertina, and the house reopened under its new name in April 2024 with changing exhibitions of contemporary art.
The House of Strauss is a museum of the Strauss family of composers in the Casino Zögernitz in Döbling, a Biedermeier dance hall opened in 1837. About 2,000 m² of multimedia rooms trace how Johann Strauss father and son, Josef and Eduard shaped the Viennese waltz, ending with a short show in the historic ballroom where all four performed.
The Sigmund Freud Museum occupies the building at Berggasse 19 in Vienna's Alsergrund district, where Freud lived and practised until he emigrated in 1938. Founded in 1971, it covers his life and work and the history of psychoanalysis, with original rooms, documents and personal objects.
The Votivkirche is a neo-Gothic church beside the University of Vienna, built from 1856 to 1879 to designs by Heinrich von Ferstel as thanks for Emperor Franz Joseph's survival of an assassination attempt in 1853. Its museum in the raised oratory shows liturgical objects, banners and the carved Antwerp Passion Altar of around 1500.
The Burgtheater is Austria's national theatre and stages German-language drama on the Ringstrasse, opposite the City Hall. Its Neo-Renaissance building was designed by Gottfried Semper and Carl von Hasenauer and opened in 1888; Gustav and Ernst Klimt and Franz Matsch painted the ceilings of its two grand staircases.
St. Peter's Church is a Baroque Catholic church on Petersplatz, just off the Graben, built from 1701 to 1733; Gabriele Montani began it and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt continued the work from 1703. Its green oval dome rises 56 metres, and inside Johann Michael Rottmayr painted the dome fresco. Since 1970 the church has been entrusted to Opus Dei.
Madame Tussauds Vienna is a wax museum on the Riesenradplatz in the Prater, opened on 1 April 2011 and run by Merlin Entertainments. More than 90 figures on three floors are grouped into themed rooms, from Maria Theresa, Mozart and Sigmund Freud to Austrian athletes, film actors and pop musicians, with a section on Empress Sisi.
The Sisi Museum is devoted to Empress Elisabeth of Austria and has been housed since 2004 in the Stephan apartments of the Hofburg, entered from the Michaelerkuppel. Personal belongings of the empress illustrate her life, and the visit continues through the Imperial Apartments, the Habsburgs' winter residence.
The Imperial Treasury in the Hofburg is entered from the Schweizerhof, the oldest courtyard of the palace. In 21 rooms of secular and ecclesiastical collections it shows treasures gathered by the Habsburgs over centuries, including the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire and the crown, orb and sceptre of the Austrian Empire. It belongs to the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
The Dom Museum Wien is the museum of the Archdiocese of Vienna, housed in the Zwettlhof on Stephansplatz beside St. Stephen's Cathedral. Founded in 1933 and reopened in 2017 after a redesign by Boris Podrecca, it shows the cathedral treasury and medieval sacred art alongside modern and contemporary works from the Otto Mauer Collection.
St. Stephen's Cathedral on Stephansplatz is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna. Its Romanesque and Gothic form was largely begun under Duke Rudolf IV in the 14th century on the site of a church consecrated in 1147, and it is known for its patterned tiled roof and 136-metre south tower.
The Hofburg is the former main palace of the Habsburgs in the centre of Vienna, begun in the 13th century and extended over 700 years into a complex of wings and courtyards. It houses the office of the Austrian president, the Imperial Apartments, the Treasury, the Spanish Riding School and the National Library.
The Natural History Museum Vienna opened in 1889 in a Neo-Renaissance building by Gottfried Semper and Carl von Hasenauer, facing its twin, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, on Maria-Theresien-Platz. Its halls hold the imperial natural history collections: minerals and meteorites, dinosaur skeletons, mounted animals and the Venus of Willendorf, a figurine about 29,500 years old.
The Jewish Museum Vienna presents the history, religion and culture of Vienna's Jews at two sites a short walk apart. The main house in the Palais Eskeles on Dorotheergasse covers Jewish Vienna from the Middle Ages to today, while the Museum Judenplatz shows the excavated remains of the medieval synagogue destroyed in 1421.
The State Hall is the Baroque hall of the former court library in the Hofburg, built from 1723 to 1726 for Emperor Charles VI to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and completed by his son. Under Daniel Gran's dome fresco stand about 200,000 books printed between 1501 and 1850, among them Prince Eugene of Savoy's library.
The Weltmuseum Wien is Austria's largest anthropological museum, established in 1876 and housed in the Neue Hofburg wing on Heldenplatz. Known until 2013 as the Museum für Völkerkunde, it holds more than 400,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects from Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, and reopened in 2017 after renovation.
Mumok, the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, is a museum of modern and contemporary art in the MuseumsQuartier. Since 2001 it has occupied a dark stone-clad block by Ortner & Ortner, and its collection of about 10,000 works includes Warhol, Picasso, Beuys, Lichtenstein and a large holding of Viennese Actionism.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum on Maria-Theresien-Platz was built from 1871 to 1891 to plans by Gottfried Semper and Karl von Hasenauer to house the Habsburg art collections. Beneath its 60-metre dome it shows paintings by Bruegel, Dürer, Titian, Rubens and Vermeer, as well as the Kunstkammer, Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities and a coin cabinet.
Kunsthalle Wien is the City of Vienna's exhibition house for international contemporary art, opened in 1992 in a temporary container building by Adolf Krischanitz at Karlsplatz. It has no collection of its own and shows changing solo and thematic exhibitions at two sites, in the MuseumsQuartier on Museumsplatz and in a glass pavilion at Karlsplatz.
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