Things to do in Vienna Region, Vienna Region: The Best Art Museums

December 12, 2021 Leida Jutras

Discover the best top things to do in Vienna Region, Austria including W&K Palais, Kolja Kramer Fine Arts, Ernst Fuchs Museum, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Kunst Haus Wien - Museum Hundertwasser, Belvedere Museum, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Albertina, WestLicht. Museum for Photography.
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1. W&K Palais

Renngasse 4 Palais Schoenborn-Batthyány, Vienna 1010 Austria +43 1 5339977 [email protected] http://www.w-k.art
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5.0 based on 4 reviews

W&K Palais

W&K - Wienerroither & Kohlbacher schaffen im Palais Schönborn-Batthyány einen einmaligen Ausstellungsort zur Präsentation von Kunst nach 1945 sowie zeitgenössischen Positionen. So wurden bereits höchst erfolgreich Arbeiten von Günter Uecker, Heinz Mack und Max Weiler gezeigt. Durch die anspruchsvolle Programmierung etabliert sich ein neuer Kunststandort für nationale und internationale Kunst. Das historische Ambiente trifft auf Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts und ermöglicht einen einzigartigen Dialog zwischen kulturellem Erbe und Gegenwartskunst.

2. Kolja Kramer Fine Arts

Absberggasse 27 Loft 9 11, Vienna 1100 Austria 434316007455 [email protected] http://koljakramer.com
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Kolja Kramer Fine Arts

KOLJA KRAMER FINE ARTS has a strong focus on the latest Contemporary, Young and Street Art. Within this framework, Young Art plays a significant role in opening new windows which are beyond dedication to the established positions of Contemporary Art. The future will reveal which of these new uprising Young Arts survive and who will place its mark in the History of Art. Yet, KOLJA KRAMER FINE ARTS

3. Ernst Fuchs Museum

Huettelbergstrasse 26 1140 Vienna, Vienna 1140 Austria +43 1 9148575 [email protected] http://www.ernstfuchsmuseum.at/
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4.5 based on 84 reviews

Ernst Fuchs Museum

A collection of private works by one of Austria's greatest 20th-century artists and architects.

Reviewed By svitlanao335 - Vienna, Austria

As a great fan of Otto Wagner i have visited this museum already twice. Be ready to immerse in Art Nouveau (Jugendstil or Secession or Modern or Liberty or Tiffany are the same names) style. Fantastic stained glass, golden floral decoration, roman-style bath and swimming pool, all this will make you fall in love in one of the Wagners masterpieces. Visit it 100% if you have more than 1 day in Vienna because its located far away from the city center.

4. MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art

Stubenring 5 Wien, Vienna 1010 Austria +43 4317 11360 [email protected] http://www.MAK.at
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4.5 based on 561 reviews

MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art

Discover the fascinating era of “VIENNA 1900” in the grand museum building on Vienna’s Ringstraße with art nouveau masterpieces of the Wiener Werkstätte by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, or Koloman Moser. Inaugurated in 1871, the building by Heinrich von Ferstel is one of the grandest works of architecture on Vienna’s Ringstraße. Today the MAK, originally founded as the “Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry”, accommodates a unique collection of precious art and craftwork from the fields of furniture, glass, porcelain, silver, and textiles from the middle ages to today. With more than 1 million objects and printed works it is one of the most important museums of its kind in the world. The spacious exhibition rooms were designed by contemporary artists and show selected highlights of the MAK Collection as well as temporary exhibitions in the field of design, art and architecture.

Reviewed By SusanWms - Santa Fe, United States

This museum has a magnificent collection of objects from the mid-19th century forward (when the school was founded). The collections are mainly organized typologically/chronologically, e.g. chairs, tables, glass table wares, porcelain, silver, textiles, etc., but there was a major interpretive exhibit running while we were there—“Vienna 1900.” Vienna was a hotbed of reformist ideas about decorative and applied eta—resulting in the Wiener Werkstadt and the Vienna Secessionist movement. Labels are clear and each gallery has a booklet with English translations of object labels. We spent three hour happily perusing the collections and then retreated to the excellent gift shop featuring a well-curated assortment of well-designed goods.

5. Akademie der bildenden Kunste

Schillerplatz 3, Vienna 1010 Austria 43 1 588 16 ext. 225 [email protected] http://www.akademiegalerie.at
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4.5 based on 160 reviews

Akademie der bildenden Kunste

This art gallery houses a collection of impressive works by famous artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and is also home to Hieronymus Bosch's famous painting "The Last Judgement."

Reviewed By Monstrum0206 - Saarwellingen, Germany

Great art museum currently in the Theater museum because of the renovation. For those who love and enjoy art.

6. Kunst Haus Wien - Museum Hundertwasser

Untere Weissgerberstrasse 13, Vienna 1030 Austria +43 1 7120491 [email protected] http://www.kunsthauswien.com
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Kunst Haus Wien - Museum Hundertwasser

EXPERIENCE HUNDERTWASSER UP CLOSE: Art - Achitecture - Nature - Vision Two intriguing museums experiences await the visitors at the KUNST HAUS WIEN. The Museum Hundertwasser presents the world's biggest collection of Austrian exceptional artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928 -2000): his world famous paintings, fine art prints, tapestries and architectural designs. Here you can immerse yourself in his imaginative world of art inside and out - colorful walls and uneven floors in the interior, the artistic façade with tiles and color fields on the outside. "Tree tenants" grow from the windows, plants and flowers inhabit the rooftop and inner courtyard. In Vienna's first "green museum" one can sense Hundertwasser's visionary mind and experience his ecological engagement on site. Beyond that the KUNST HAUS WIEN is Vienna's premier house for photography exhibitions: changing exhibitions introduce the biggest names of photography to a wide audience.

Reviewed By sandesha577 - Vienna, Austria

two levels of Hundertwasser architecture and paintings exhibition, and temporarily changing photografic exhibitions , as well as a nice coffee shop in the Hundertwasser style, afterward, some Hundertwasser building blocks just in walking distance are also to be admired....

7. Belvedere Museum

Prinz-Eugen-Strasse 27, Vienna 1030 Austria +43 1 795570 [email protected] http://www.belvedere.at/en
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4.5 based on 17,493 reviews

Belvedere Museum

The two Belvedere palaces were built in the early eighteenth century by the famous Baroque architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt to be used as the summer residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). One of Europe’s most stunning Baroque landmarks, this ensemble – comprising the Upper and Lower Belvedere and an extensive garden – is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today the Belvedere houses the greatest collection of Austrian art dating from the Middle Ages to the present day, complemented by the work of international artists such as Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Max Beckmann. Highlights from the holdings Vienna 1880–1914 are the world’s largest collection of Gustav Klimt’s paintings (including the famous golden Art Nouveau icons the Kiss (Lovers) and Judith) and works by Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Key works of French Impressionism and the greatest collection of Viennese Biedermeier art are further attractions on display at the Upper Belvedere.

Reviewed By Worldtravel1234567

Beautiful palace and excellent collection of Austrian painters including an extensive Klimt collection and the famous Kiss artwork. Do not miss!

8. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna 1010 Austria +43 1 525240 [email protected] http://www.khm.at
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Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

Experience one of the world's foremost museums! Let yourself be enchanted by works spanning five millennia, from Ancient Egypt to the modern era. Experience unique major works by Dürer, Raphael, Titian and Velázquez as well as the world's largest collection of Bruegel paintings, all in a magnificent setting. The Kunstkammer Vienna, featuring the famous Saliera by Benvenuto Cellini, is a veritable universe of art and beauty guaranteed to transform any visit into an unforgettable experience. Included in the ticket are the collections at the Neue Burg on the opposite side of Vienna's Ringstrasse. Here you will see the instruments used by the great composers and be transported back to chivalrous times when knights held sway and tourneys and hunting shaped courtly life.

Reviewed By Ina5555 - Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine

The museum was the main goal of my Vienna visit, but I never expected it to be such an excellent introduction into the city and palaces sculptures' motifs as well, underscoring how much power was assigned back then to the art as a means of ideological visual education. Having spent 1,5 days in the museum I have made plenty of personal discoveries and enjoyed new for me artworks (e.g. unexpected parallel to the modern popular mass culture is a 1524 'Arya Stark' self-portrait bearing uncanny resemblance, in fact Parmigianino's enchanting masterpiece). The discoveries haven't stopped after the museum visit ended, because the next day during sightseeing I realized I recognize many of the city and its palaces sculptures' motifs and whatever I used to know about the big name old masters the most influential of them in Vienna must be Luca Giordano's The Fall of the Rebel Angels, whenever I saw its impressive replicated Laocoon-like convulsion-wriggled figures conveying the ideals of Counter-Reformation to the empire subjects on the city streets. Just walking the city you can recognize in the city sculptures' many familiar motifs, not only Biblical but antique as well (Hercules lifting Antaeus, Amazons, etc). Practicalities of the museum visit: the air-conditioning wasn't felt at all in the big inner rooms with Roman numerals, I slightly felt it in the small outer rooms with Arabic numerals (as of 14th and 15th of July). Six or seven rooms were entirely closed for reconstruction during my two-day visit. For lockers you need either a 1 or 2 euro coin, but there's a manned storage facility as well. Backpacks have to be left in a locker, normal shoulder bags are OK. Photo of the permanent exhibition without a flash is allowed. Temporary exhibition: Yan van Eyck "Als Ich Can". Probably I somehow unfortunately missed it. In the room dedicated to the special exhibition (0.5 floor, the same floor as the Kunstkammer, Egyptian and Antique collections - beware indeed almost no English translations of the exhibits, an audio guide cannot make up for all of them; the Egyptian rooms maintain specific humidity level) I saw only few works by the painter, and few works by his contemporaries like Rogier van der Weyden. The museum building (as well as the whole square) is a stunning art object in its own right, specifically built to showcase the Habsburg art treasuries, its highlights are covered by audio guide, including Klimt, Munkacsy contributions. Seeing the interiors I couldn't help but felt as the Mask film protagonist having to recover my awestruck jaw from the floor. Really a mind-boggling shrine of a high art which symbols and messages are probably half-obscure nowadays.

9. Albertina

Albertinaplatz 1, Vienna 1010 Austria +43 699 10485045 [email protected] http://www.albertina.at
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4.5 based on 6,819 reviews

Albertina

Situated in the very heart of Vienna's City center, the Albertina houses one of the most important art collections of the world. Founded in 1776, the Museum today owns masterpieces by Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Duerer, Rembrandt etc. These collections are presented in temporary exhibitions. The Batliner Collection "From Monet to Picasso" is permanentely on display and shows the most important works by artists from the age of modernism. The Habsburg Historic Staterooms of the Albertina give an air of Imperial glamour.

Reviewed By iioannis2 - Limassol City, Cyprus

Let yourself be attracted and inspired by classical and modern art of famous painters like Picasso and Rubens, as well as admiring memorable vividness painting scenes of the A' World War and medieval personalities, along with modern pieces of painting of abstract art. You will also enter at luxurious furnished coloured rooms taking you back at classical eras and rooms decorated with Greek status like the 9 muses and Apollon (usually their names are written in Greeks). I was impressed that most of the visitors are young people even if the ticket could be considered a bit expensive. But the cost deserves for those who look for such cultural exhibitions. When an exhibit (eg a painting) impresses you, read the small label in the wall next to it and then let your imagination be absorbed looking at the painting, enjoying it as an excellent creation and experiencing in your though what it represents. This is the best place for this purpose!

10. WestLicht. Museum for Photography

Westbahnstrasse 40, Vienna 1070 Austria +43 1 522663660 [email protected] http://www.westlicht.com/
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4.5 based on 36 reviews

WestLicht. Museum for Photography

Colourful, varied, extraordinary – the posters for the former exhibitions in the entrance area already reveal the versatility of the WestLicht Museum, which has been an integral part of an up-and-coming cultural scene since 2001. Surrounded by camera shops, WestLicht quickly developed from an insider tip to the heart of this creative area and offers photo-savvy visitors several times a year changing photo exhibitions, permanent collection of historical cameras, a large selection of photo books and posters in bookshop, as well as a cozy café that invites you to relax in an inspiring atmosphere. One of the highlights of the camera collection is the world's first commercially manufactured camera.

Reviewed By Meander621221 - Olomouc, Czech Republic

One of the best visits. Museum is time machine for pfoto and film lovers. Huge numbers of photo cameras from over hundred years old history. I was at the time with the photographs of Alison Jackson. Great!

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