The 10 Best Things to do in Alsergrund, Vienna Region

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!

The Volksoper Wien, located just ten minutes outside the city centre, stages operettas "Die Fledermaus - The Bat", "Merry Widow", etc.) as well as operas ("The Magic Flute", "La Traviata", etc.), classical musicals ("My Fair Lady", "The Whizard of Oz", etc.) and ballet ("The Snow Queen", etc.). The season, which runs from September to July, consists of some 300 performances divided among some 35 different productions and revivals from previous years. Vienna and operetta - people from far and near will join the two whenever one comes up. Intriguing melodies, swirling dancers, the joy of life - all come together in the classical Viennese Operetta. Much of the music known and loved the world over from composers such as Johann Strauß, Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán ... come from operettas such as "Die Fledermaus", The Merry Widow", "Countess Mariza".

The neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, founder of the Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, resided at Mariannengasse 1 since his return to Vienna in 1945 until his death in 1997. It was there that he completed his thesis on the human person as a spiritual being, capable of defeating the worst conditions as soon as and as long as he finds meaning in life. Today Frankl's workplace is an inspirational museum, in which visitors are gradually introduced to Viktor Frankl's life, his philosophy and psychotherapy. In the course of learning about the development of a genius, visitors also gain insight into their own opportunities and personal potential. The VIKTOR FRANKL MUSEUM, an initiative of the VIKTOR FRANKL CENTER VIENNA, which is a place for education, where professionals, curious amateurs, students and pupils get acquainted with Frankl's original body of thought. Courses, seminars, workshops, lectures, literature and documentaries convey his image of man and his unique methods of healing, which help us to face the problems of today's crises- ridden world in a constructive and groundbreaking way.