Museums in Vienna

The Belvedere is a Baroque palace complex housing Austria's most important art collection, including Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss'. Built for Prince Eugene of Savoy, its Upper and Lower palaces flank a terraced French garden with city skyline views.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) is one of the world's great art museums, housing the Habsburg dynasty's 700 years of collecting. Its Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities rival the Louvre, and its Old Masters gallery includes Bruegel's unmatched collection.

The Natural History Museum faces the Kunsthistorisches Museum across Maria-Theresien-Platz, mirroring its twin in architecture but housing 30 million specimens. Its gem collections and prehistoric objects are among the world's best.

The Albertina holds one of the world's largest and finest graphic art collections—over 1 million prints and 65,000 drawings—from Dürer to Warhol. The Habsburg state rooms on the upper floors offer a bonus of imperial interiors.

The Leopold Museum in the MuseumsQuartier holds the world's largest collection of works by Egon Schiele—over 40 paintings and 180 drawings—alongside Austrian Secession and Viennese Expressionist art.

The Sigmund Freud Museum occupies Berggasse 19, where Freud lived and worked for 47 years. Reopened in 2020 after a major expansion, it now fills the entire building with original furnishings, documents, and a thoughtful exploration of psychoanalysis.

Haus der Musik is an interactive sound museum on four floors, where visitors can conduct the Vienna Philharmonic (virtually), compose music, explore the physics of sound, and learn about Vienna's great composers.