WIEN MUSEUM KARLSPLATZ
The first moments of the collection form sensational
"Historical Museum of the City of Vienna" - which was archaeological finds from the Roman city. Arms and
once housed in the Viennese Town Hall. It was already armor from the Vienna Civil Arsenal also talk about the
planned to build a new building on Karlsplatz until 1914, so-called "Turkish booty" after numerous armed
in fact Otto Wagner. The first new building of the conflicts. The oldest maps of the Viennese city and
museum was opened in 1959, the work of Oswald numerous city landscapes illustrate the structural
Hurdtl, former comrade-in-arms Joseph Hoffman and development from the medieval city center to the
architect of the Austrian pavilion in the 1930s. Since the capital and the city of residence. You can admire the
interior was closed in 2000, the museum received a outstanding examples of Baroque painting in Vienna
multifunctional zone for the event and a cafe. Along by Franz Anton Maulberch, Johann Michael Rothmayr
with the permanent collection, in the Haerdtl building. or Paul Troger.
The Vienna Museum occupies a special place in the The special power of the Museum of Wine is exhibits of
diverse Vienna museum landscape: with its mixture of the 19th century. Separate pieces of furniture, clothing
art collections and historical collections, it shows the and precious arts and crafts, the reconstructed house
way of Vienna for centuries. You can see the valuable of an important Austrian poet Grilpartser with original
treasures of art and feel the city and its myth. Regular furniture, but especially large paintings by Waldmüller,
special exhibitions constantly show something new from Amerling, offer a purposeful view of the Viennese
the past of Vienna and other major cities. Biedermeier.
A fascinating combination of art and history, covering
three floors, from the Neolithic to the mid-20th century.
The Vienna Museum - from 1887 to 2003 was called the