Person & artist museums in Vienna

The Hofburg Palace, located in Vienna, is the largest palace in the city and has a rich history as the residence of most of the Austrian royalty. The Habsburg dynasty, in particular, resided here for over 600 years. This historical significance makes it a fascinating place for tourists interested in history and architecture.

The Albertina in Vienna houses one of the largest print rooms in the world, and used to be the biggest Habsburg residential palace, inhabited by one of Maria Theresa's daughters. The collection, which started in 1776, boasts over a million prints and tens of thousands of paintings dating all the way

The Sisi Museum in Vienna is housed in the Stephan apartments, named after Archduke Stephan Viktor. The museum exhibits personal items that once belonged to Elisabeth that illustrate her personality. The museum exhibits around 300 objects, including parasols, fans, gloves, clothing, beauty preparati

Madame Tussauds Vienna (Madame Tussauds Wien) is a wax museum in Vienna. In the museum several wax statues of famous people are spread throughout several rooms. Besides wax statues of world famous people such as the President of the United States or James Bond, the museum also has wax statues of fam

The Mozarthaus Vienna is the place where Mozart wrote his opera The Marriage of Figaro here, and also three out of six Haydn Quartets. This museum mainly focuses on his work. Apart from the interior, you will get to see his letters and other items from his private life. It is the biggest and the mos

The Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna features an exhibition on the history of psychoanalysis and the life of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) in Freud's former practice and apartment. The collection of the museum includes original items owned by Freud, the practice's waiting room, and parts of Freud's antiqu

Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna, German: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, is a public art academy of applied and visual arts in Vienna. Owning works of world-famous artists (some of which are almost 700 years old), the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna is a place for art lovers. The Academy is infa

The Ernst Fuchs Museum in Vienna is devoted to the Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, singer and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, Ernst Fuchs. The museum is housed in his Otto Wagner Villa that Fuchs acquired in

The City Palace Liechtenstein is a musuem in Vienna and is one of two palaces in Vienna belonging to the princely family of Liechtenstein, built from 1692 to 1705. The Liechtentein Palace is still used as a private residence by the princely family of Liechtenstein, but it also houses the 19th centur

The Museum of the Johann Strauss Dynasty (Johann Strauss Museum) is a museum in Vienna that is devoted to the Strauss family of musicians, headed by Johann Strauss senior, his sons Johann jr., Josef and Eduard, and his grandson Johan III. The collection of the Strauss Museum in Vienna tells the fami

The Johann Strauss Wohnung is a museum in Vienna that is dedicated to Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899). Johann Strauss and his wife Jetty lived here from 1863 to 1870 and he wrote his most famous piece An der schönen blauen Donau here. The museum shows a large number of pieces from and about his life,

Neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, founder of the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy", lived in Mariannengasse 1 until his death in 1997. There he completed his theses on man as a spiritually gifted being. Today, this Frankl site is a museum where visitors are introduced to the art of

The Museum of Art Fakes (The Fälschermuseum Wien) is a private museum for art forgeries in Vienna. The museum includes works by Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren and the London restorer Tom Keating, who claimed to have faked more than 2000 works by more than one hundred artists. Also on display

The Hermesvilla in Vienna is a palace located in the Lainzer Tiergarten, a former fenced-in hunting ground for the Habsburg nobility. Emperor Franz Joseph made Empress Elisabeth a present, in the hope to keep her in Vienna more often. In a five-year construction period, architect Carl von Hasenauer

The Circus and Clown Museum in Vienna illustrates the history of local and international entertainers such as clowns, artists, wizards and freaks. Visitors can learn interesting facts about their places of work, such as the Vienna Prater and circuses. The Circus and Clown Museum regularly organizes

The Neidhart Frescoes (Neidhart Fresken) is the oldest secular mural paintings in Vienna. It was commissioned by the merchant Michael Menschein and show scenes from the life and work of the minne singer Neidhart von Reuental (circa 1180 to 1240), illustrating daily life and festive culture of the Mi

Peace Museum Vienna was founded on June 21, 2014, on the anniversary of the death of Bertha Von Suttner, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It is located at Blutgasse 3/1. The central belief for the museum is that peace education is essential for creating a more peaceful world. P

In Schubert's apartment in Kettenbrückengasse in Wieden, which belonged to his brother Ferdinand, the composer spent the last two and a half months of his life. The exhibits in the museum document the last weeks of his life, Schubert's death, the funeral, and the grave of the composer. The exhibits

mumok is one of Europe’s largest and leading museums featuring art produced since the advent of modernity, which it collects, explores, and exhibits to a wide art-loving audience. In addition to such renowned stars as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Maria Lassnig, and Cosima von Bonin, the presentation

The memorial Eroicahaus recalls Beethoven's stay in Oberdöbling in the summer of 1803, during which he composed a large part of his 3rd Symphony, the Eroica. Beethoven never lived in this specific house however.