To Know the Imperial Traditions: Vienna Museums

Albertina is one of the famous Vienna Museums which is in bertinaplatz 1 | 1010 Vienna, Vienna 1010, Austria, and was founded in 1776. This name of the museum was on the name of its founder, “Duke Albert Casimir.” The director of the museum is Dr. Klaus Albrecht Schroder. The museum is open for visitors and residents from Wednesday to Saturday. The entry fees in the museum are $ 18, which can vary too. Although costly, the guided tour is recommended in this museum as guides can best describe and provide in-depth knowledge about the history and the museum. The pricing for guides is generally $ 42 per person. Inside the Albertina museum one can notice and view great artwork, modern graphic works, photographs, and architectural drawings. One can cherish natural art in both permanent and temporary exhibitions, which is being organized in this museum regularly and enjoy a cocktail or famous word coffee in the cafes situated just outside the museum.

The name knows another well renowned Vienna museum in Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Austria of Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. The museum, in short, can be called as MUMOK and was founded in 2001. The famous architecture firm which helped in designing the museum is Ortner & Ortner. The museum contains numerous artwork which includes nearly 10,000 modern and contemporary artwork, which was contributed by a German industrialist, Peter Ludwig, Irene, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell etcetera. In MUMOK, one can gain in-depth knowledge related to Viennese Actionism, as it emphasizes on photography, video, film, painting, a sculpture of Vienna for nearly two decades. Museum foundation owner was Werner Hofmann, who has added holdings in the museum which best described the place Vienna during world war II. Today, MUMOK is considered as one of the best Vienna museums where guides best explain the history of Vienna and can be observed in the artwork inside the museum.

Leopold museum established in 2001 in Museums Quartier. The exact address for this famous Vienna museum is Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, one can easily reach by entering the address on google. Inside this museum there is gorgeous art collection of Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Richard Gerstl. Inside this museum, there is the largest collection of modern Austrian art. The name of this museum was on the name of Rudolf Leopold, who collected more than 5000 items corresponding to the artwork for exhibition in this museum. The windows in this museum show a wonderful panorama view, and one can view central Vienna and Maria Theresa Square and Hofburg Palace from where which are well-known sites of Vienna. The rooms in this museum are very spacious and have very good lighting effects. One can see and admire nice, small gift shops, great restaurants along with the best artwork. Amongst all the Vienna museum, Leopold museum is the best curated and spacious museum once can view. When tourists make their itinerary themselves or by the agents, the Leopold Museum is always on the top of the list.

Sigmund Freud's museum was founded in 1971 and is in Berggasse 13, 1090 Wien. This museum best describes the life of Sigmund Freud and the history of psychoanalysis. Earlier, in 1938, Freud used to live with his family in an apartment, Berggasse 19, near Innere Stadt. He lived in this apartment for nearly 47 years, where he added numerous writings, documentaries on his life and work. In this museum, there is a special exhibition program that displays modern art collection on psychoanalysis. Inside the museum there is the placement of nearly 2000 documents, which mainly contains photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures. Tons of photographs of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and his family are being picturized in a beautiful manner, which is worth praising. Visitors and tourists can buy small unusual gifts inspired on his life and present them to their near and dear ones. The gift shop is available inside the museum only.

One of the unique Vienna Museum opened in 1956 is the Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library, where one can see the collection of more than 250 historic globes and astronomical tools which were used in Baroque palace in the 17th century. This museum is situated in Palais Mollard, Herrengasse 9, 1010 Wien. If one searches in the whole world, this is the only museum that is open to public and is fully devoted to globes as in this museum, tourists can see three-dimensional models of Earth, celestial bodies, and celestial sphere is spherical forms. Terrestrial and celestial globes placed in this museum are very old nearly were made in 1850. People who have keen interest in the historical presentation of globe can observe the oldest collection of terrestrial globes of Gemma Frisius, globes of Vincenzo Coronelli in this museum. This museum is open on all days of the week except for Mondays. Generally, the museum opens at 10:00 am and closes by 6:00 pm on daily basis. However, for Thursdays the museum remains open till 09:00 pm.

Hofburg Palace is very famous in Vienna, in Heldenplatz. Neue Burg Museum is the most recent part of this palace on Vienna’s Ringstrasse. Inside this museum, tourists can acknowledge wing hosting Kunsthistorisches, armory collection of 19th century. The museum all together has an iconic collection of musical instruments of the world’s greatest and renowned music composers, to cite an example a few were Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Armory weapons displayed here are packed very magnificently. This is the most beautiful museum on Heldenplatz not only in terms of outer appearance but also for the material, historical components placed inside museums, especially related to musical instruments. Neue Burg museum is one of the best locations to be captured in still photography and preserve the same for life long memory. The architecture lovers must check out this location for sure as it is very easy to locate, and interiors and exteriors of the museum make this building a great place to visit.

One can reach the museum by bus, tram, hop on hop off, and by underground means, i.e., by U3 Herrengasse. The entry of the museum is at Schweizerhof, which is considered as the oldest part of the palace. The treasury placed in the museum is an affiliation with Kunsthistorisches Museum and is placed in 21 rooms inside the Imperial Treasury Vienna museum. Amongst the royal collection in the museum like the Imperial Regalia, The Austrian Crown Jewels, The Burgundian Treasury, the original insignia of the kingdom of Bohemia, the regalia of the Archduchy of Austria is considered as secular museums part. Ecclesiastical collection of the museum includes various images and altars which are devotional; most of them were from Baroque era. There are few important, well-known things related to the museum, which can be considered as knowledgeable key things. Firstly, there is a giant narwhal tooth in the Imperial treasury Vienna, which was thought to be the horn of unicorn. Secondly, one can find out objects in the museum that are surrounded by an aura of legend. Lastly, this is the only museum that has the collection of complete royal treasure from the European middle ages.

Schokolade Museum was established in Vienna in 1993. This museum is situated in Willendorfer G.2, 1230 Wien. Inside this museum, one can view the whole history of chocolate, from its beginnings with the Olmecs, Maya, and Aztecs to contemporary products and production methods. Popularly, in other words, this museum is also known as Imhoff chocolate museum. This museum is the topmost museum in visitors list and is generally very crowdy and full of visitors during peak season. This museum is ranked as tenth largest museum in the world. Small machines to show the process of manufacturing of chocolate bars is shown just on the entrance, which is the major attraction to people of all ages. Just on the entrance there is a huge shop to purchase chocolates, which no one misses to buy for themselves, friends, families, near and dear ones. This is the best museum to start day with, which will sweeten up the entire day. Guided tours are also available in different languages on request here. The museum opens daily except on public holidays. Hence, chocolate lovers should not miss one of the Vienna museums

The Sisi Museum is in Michaelerkuppel. The museum is designed by famous architecture Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in Baroque style. Sisi museum is a part of Kaiser apartments in the Amalia wing of the Imperial Palace. The rooms designed and constructed here are preserved in a great manner to date. The most interesting corner for this museum is train carriage. The place is always crowdy with visitors and locals and kids, adults, everyone enjoys here, and the museum is open just for two days, i.e., on Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. Inside the museum, there is a great huge collection of thousands of pieces of dishes, silverware, and glassware, which one can not even imagine. Silver, porcelain, gold, which was used decades ago to make sets, cutleries are being exhibited here; hence, this museum is the biggest attraction to ladies. A must watch museum to dig into the history of dishes and utensils used thousands of years ago.

The 19^th-century museum, owned by the Ministry of defense is in Ghegastrasse and is known by the name of the Museum of Military History. This museum is the first-ever museum that was built in a range of styles from Byzantine, Hispano-Moorish, and Neo-Gothic. There are various means by which one can reach this museum, i.e., by bus, tram, hop on hop off, and underground. Visitors in abundance visit this museum because of range of stunning, unique architectural styles, intricate mural paintings on the ceiling of the building, exhibitions on war against the Ottomans, Eugene, world war I, Sarajevo room, artillery halls and tank gardens, collection of guns and barrels from old imperial armoury up to World War II. The famous car in which Francis Ferdinand and his wife were shot to death is also placed in this museum and is the greatest attraction in this museum.

The largest Vienna museum covering 60,000 square meters is Museum Quartier Wien, located in Museumsplatz 1. In short, the Museums Quartier Wien is known as “MQ.” It contains Baroque buildings, modern architecture, which was laid by Laurids and Manfred Ortner. The total cost for the construction of this building was nearly 150 million Euros. This museum offers spaces for exhibitions, festivals, and summer events. MQ station of line Underground 2 of the Vienna u-Bahn as well as the metro station “Volkstheater.” The architecture of the building is not exemplary only for interiors; exteriors are equally beautiful and can be admired by architect lovers. So many tops most museums like MQ, Leopold museum, etcetera in one place is very convenient for people to visit and this is beautiful and wonderful too.

Natural history Museum is in Burging 7 | Maria Theresien Platz. This museum is very large and is very important in terms of natural history museums worldwide. The director of this Museum is Christian Koebel. It was established between 1872 and 1889. Major highlighting part of this museum is, it contains a collection of dinosaur skeletons and meteorites in addition to a large display of insects from all over the world. The museum is very informative and accessible for people of all walks of life, especially for kids who are dinosaur fans. The museum has an excellent collection of stuff from natural sciences.

Kunsthistorisches Museum is in Maria-Theresien-Platz and was founded in 1891. The architecture of this museum was Baron Karl von Hasenauer. This museum is popularly known as the “Museum of Fine Arts.” It is one of the largest art museums in the country. This building is rectangular and topped with a dome, which is 60 meters in height. Moving on to the interiors of the building, it is lavishly decorated with marble, stucco ornaments, gold leaf, and paintings. Audio guides are available here, costing nearly seven euros, and they explain everything in detail. The museum is too wonderful for people who love to click pictures. The museum is crowdy with tourists during peak seasons.

Hundertwasser Museum was opened in 1991 and is situated in Untere WeiBgerberstraBe 13. The artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser designed this Vienna museum. This museum is hosts permanent and temporary exhibitions on works for Hundertwasser and other artists who wish to exhibit their work. Hundertwasser also worked in the field of coins, stamps, posters, applied art. He died of a congestive heart attack in 2000 and lived for 71 years. His former paintings were influenced by the Vienna Secession tradition of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. A must-visit museum for Hundertwasser fans.

One-stop on the self-guided tour of the Hofburg palace takes you into the Sisi Museum, dedicated to the reality and myth of perhaps the most enigmatic of all Habsburg Empresses.

If you are wondering about Sisi, Sisi is the nickname of Empress Elisabeth (1837-1898). She was the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph. She was the face that launched a thousand commemorative mugs, books, postcards, films, etc. Precisely, small Sisi married the young Austrian Emperor in a fairy-tale story that turned bad as the rigidity of court life overwhelmed her free bird spirit. Elisabeth remains a mystery, a strange mix of a romantic innocent and melancholic misanthrope. Vain yet withdrew. Living life to the full, yet always unfulfilled. Sad and buffeted by the dark hand of fortune, but hardly a tragic heroine.

Vienna has more than 100 museums, and all the Vienna museums contain objects which best describe culture, art, science, and historical things that organize an exhibition for public enjoyment, viewing, and knowledge. The place is best for the people who like to dig in the entire history of the place — the main artists like Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, who were the real heroes and stars of Vienna. Generally, entry in Vienna Museums is not free, however on Tuesday evening and on 26^th October, which is Austria’s National Day, exhibitions are open as free for common man.

Along with Vienna Museums, top quality food can also be enjoyed by food lovers in Vienna, especially the famous Austrian food like Wiener Schnitzel, The Sachertorte, Austrian Goulash Apfelstrudel, Spargel, Powidltascherl, Tafelspitz.