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Autriche

627 lieux · 1 204 musées

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Guide museumtickets.com · Autriche

Welcome to Austria

Austria is where the Habsburgs collected for six centuries – and where Mozart, Klimt and the Sachertorte all come from.

Vienna is a capital of museums: the Kunsthistorisches Museum with its Bruegels, the Belvedere with Klimt's The Kiss, the Albertina's drawings, the Leopold Museum's Schiele, the imperial treasury in the Hofburg and the Sisi Museum next door, and Schönbrunn Palace on the edge of town. In Salzburg you climb to the fortress and walk into the house where Mozart was born. Innsbruck has the Golden Roof and Ambras Castle with its cabinet of curiosities; Graz has the bubble-shaped Kunsthaus beside a medieval old town; Linz shows art and technology at Ars Electronica; Hallstatt's salt mine has been worked for 7,000 years. And between museums there is always a coffee house – Vienna's coffee house culture is UNESCO heritage. This museumtickets.com guide follows Austria state by state.

  • 1273Rudolf of Habsburg becomes king – his family will rule for more than 600 years
  • 1756Mozart is born in Salzburg
  • 7,000years of salt mining in Hallstatt

Austria in 30,000 years

From the Venus of Willendorf to the Austrian republic.

  1. around 28,000 BC

    The Venus of Willendorf

    A little stone figure of a woman, found in the Wachau valley, is one of the most famous works of the Stone Age.

    À voir à: Natural History Museum Vienna
  2. 1st to 4th century

    Romans on the Danube

    Carnuntum is a Roman city of 50,000 people on the Danube frontier; its houses and baths have been rebuilt on the old foundations.

    À voir à: Carnuntum →
  3. 1273 to 1918

    The Habsburgs

    From Vienna, the Habsburgs rule lands from Spain to Hungary and collect crowns, armour, paintings and treasures.

    À voir à: Imperial Treasury Vienna
  4. 1683

    Vienna under siege

    The Ottoman army surrounds Vienna for two months until a relief army breaks the siege – and legend says the croissant and Viennese coffee came out of it.

    À voir à: Wien Museum →
  5. 1750 to 1830

    City of music

    Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert live and work in Vienna and Salzburg.

    À voir à: Mozart's Birthplace
  6. 1897 to 1918

    Vienna 1900

    Klimt and the Secession, Schiele, Otto Wagner and Freud make Vienna a laboratory of modern art and ideas.

    À voir à: Belvedere →
  7. 1938 to 1945

    Annexation and the camps

    Nazi Germany annexes Austria; at Mauthausen a concentration camp is built near Linz. The memorial keeps the names.

    À voir à: Mauthausen Memorial
  8. 1955 to today

    The Second Republic

    With the State Treaty, Austria becomes independent and neutral again.

    À voir à: House of Austrian History

Women who shaped Austria

An empress, a peace prize winner, a physicist and an inventor from Hollywood.

Maria Theresa (1717–1780)

Ruled the Habsburg lands for 40 years, introduced school for all children and had sixteen children herself.

À voir à: Schönbrunn Palace
Empress Elisabeth – Sisi (1837–1898)

The restless empress who rode, travelled and wrote poetry; her life is told in the Hofburg.

À voir à: Sisi Museum
Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914)

Author of Lay Down Your Arms! and the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1905.

Lise Meitner (1878–1968)

Physicist from Vienna who helped explain nuclear fission – an element, meitnerium, is named after her.

À voir à: Technisches Museum Wien →
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000)

Hollywood star from Vienna who also co-invented frequency hopping, an idea behind today's wireless technology.

À voir à: Technisches Museum Wien →
Maria Lassnig (1919–2014)

Painter of 'body awareness': how it feels to be inside your own body.

À voir à: Albertina →

Austrian artists to look for

Names that come back in Austrian museums.

Gustav Klimt

Gold, ornament and the famous Kiss.

À voir à: Belvedere →
Egon Schiele

Sharp, nervous lines and honest self-portraits.

À voir à: Leopold Museum →
Oskar Kokoschka

Expressionist portraits and the stormy Bride of the Wind.

À voir à: Belvedere →
Koloman Moser and the Wiener Werkstätte

Furniture, glass and silver of Vienna 1900, designed down to the spoon.

À voir à: MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Colourful houses without straight lines, with trees growing out of the windows.

À voir à: Kunst Haus Wien →

Taste Austria

Coffee houses, pastry and alpine cooking.

Wiener Schnitzel

Thin veal in a golden crumb, with potato salad and a slice of lemon.

Sachertorte

Chocolate cake with apricot jam and dark glaze, with unsweetened whipped cream.

Apfelstrudel

Paper-thin pastry rolled around apples, raisins and cinnamon.

Kaiserschmarrn

Torn, caramelised pancake with plum compote – loved by Emperor Franz Joseph.

Tafelspitz

Boiled beef in its broth with apple-horseradish and chive sauce, a Viennese Sunday meal.

Käsespätzle

Little noodles baked with mountain cheese and fried onions, from Tyrol and Vorarlberg.

Traditions and festivals through the year

Balls in winter, music in summer, cattle coming home in autumn.

Ball season – winter

Vienna dances through hundreds of balls, from the Opera Ball to the coffee-makers' ball.

Easter markets – spring

Painted eggs and spring crafts in Vienna and Salzburg.

Salzburg Festival – summer

Opera, concerts and theatre in Mozart's city, with Everyman performed in front of the cathedral.

Bregenz Festival – summer

Opera on a giant stage floating on Lake Constance.

Almabtrieb – autumn

Cows decorated with flowers and bells come down from the mountain pastures.

Krampus and Advent – December

Furry Krampus devils walk with Saint Nicholas; Christmas markets glow in every square.

Histoire cachée

The war over a chocolate cake

Two of Vienna's most famous addresses went to court over who owns the 'original' Sachertorte.

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Franz Sacher created the cake in 1832 as a 16-year-old kitchen apprentice. Later his grandson worked at the court bakery Demel and took the recipe there, while the Hotel Sacher kept making it too. For years both sold an 'original'. In the end a court decided: the Hotel Sacher may call its cake the Original Sachertorte, with a round chocolate seal; Demel's is the Eduard-Sacher-Torte, with a triangle. The difference you can taste: Sacher puts apricot jam in the middle as well, Demel only under the glaze.

Conseils pour les amateurs d’art

City cards

The Vienna City Card and the Salzburg Card bundle museums and transport.

Long Night of Museums

One autumn night, museums all over Austria open late with one ticket for all.

Trains

Fast ÖBB trains link Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Graz.

Coffee house rules

Order a Melange, take your time – a glass of water comes free and nobody will rush you.

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