Science & technology museums in Vienna

The Technisches Museum is a museum in Vienna that displays thousands of artifacts organized in different exhibitions about nature, heavy industry, mass production and daily life. On the one hand, the Technisches Musuem Vienna exhibits objects ranging from airplanes and trains to antique typewriters

The Globe Museum is a museum in Vienna that is housed in the Palais Mollard. It is the only public museum in the world devoted to globes, featuring around 600 terrestrial and celestial globes of which around 200 are on display in the exhibition presented by the Globe Museum. Most of the globes origi

The Clock Museum in Vienna holds and exhibits one of the most significant collections of time pieces in Europe. The collection of the museum includes 700 clocks from around the world. Spread over three floors, the exhibition illustrates the story of scientific and technological development, social t

The Verkehrsmuseum Remise (Remise Museum of the Vienna Lines) is a museum in Vienna that is dedicated to public transport. It is the largest tram museum in the world that deals with the public transport of a single city. The main focus of the collection of the museum is the complete documentation of

The Alt-Wiener-Schnapsmuseum is a museum in Vienna where visitors can learn everything about highly alcoholic drinks, with tasting included. The museum still features some original pieces and equipment, including the original interior of the wood-paneled office space, desks, a historic cash register

The Collection of Historic Musical Instruments in Vienna includes the world's most important collection of Renaissance and Baroque instruments. Besides these, in this museum, numerous instruments played by famous musicians and composers are on display. Highlights in the collection include Viennese f

The Josephinum was a medical-surgical academy in Vienna for the training of military doctors for the Austrian army. Today, the Institute of Medical History of the Medical University of Vienna is housed in the buildings as well as other institutes. The Josephinum houses a large number of collections

The Kuffner Observatory is a public observatory in Vienna that was founded in 1884 as a well-equipped private observatory with a research institute attached to it. The Kuffner Observatory contains four main telescopes, but its highlight is the heliometer, an instrument originally designed for measur

The Kaffeemuseum Wien (The Coffee Museum Vienna) was founded in 2003 on the ground floor of the building of the Austrian Museum of Social and Economic Affairs. Access is via the main museum. The objects, mostly from the private collection of its founder Edmund Mayr, cover every aspect of coffee. The

The SchokoMuseum (Chocolate Museum Vienna) is a museum in Vienna that illustrates 3000 years of chocolate history, from the Olmeken's Xocolatl to today's praline. The museum shows the cultivation, the different varieties and recipes of chocolate and shows current production, through exhibits and pic

The Zeiss Planetarium of Vienna is considered one of the most modern planetariums in the world. A lot of astronomic shows and projections take place at this planetarium where visitors can discover the secrets of the universe.

The Architekturzentrum Wien is the national architecture museum of Austria, located in Vienna. It is a center for exhibitions, events and research in architecture and related topics, with a focus on architecture and urban design of the 20th and 21st centuries. The permanent exhibition in the Archite