KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM
The Art Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum was developed from the art collections of the Habsburg House. Today it is one of
the largest and most important of its kind in the world.
The foundations of the collection were laid and its main accents, established in the XVII century: Venetian painting of the XVI
century (Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto), Flemish painting of the 17th century (Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Anthony Van Dijk), Early Dutch
painting (Jan Van Eyck, Roger van der Weyden) and German Renaissance painting (Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach).
Among other highlights in the Picture Gallery are paintings by Peter Bruegel the Elder, which are unique all over the world, as well as
masterpieces by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Raphael, Caravaggio, Velasquez and Italian Baroque artists.
The Egyptian and Middle Eastern collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum is one of the most important collections of Egyptian
antiquities in the world. More than 17,000 objects belong to the period of almost four thousand years, from the Egyptian pre-natal
and early dynastic periods (around 3500 BC) to the early Christian era. Geographically, their origin varies from Egypt, Nubia, the
eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia to the Arabian Peninsula.
The objects in the collection of Greek and Roman antiquities cover a period of more than three millennia and range from ceramics
from the Bronze Age of Cyprus, beginning in the 3rd millennium BC. E. Until the earliest medieval finds. About 2500 objects are on
permanent display. Here are exhibited unique and impressive antique cameos, including the famous Jemma Auguste, treasures
related to the period of great migrations and early Middle Ages, such as the golden treasure of Nagizentmiklos and the collection.