627 plaatsen · 1.204 musea
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.
From the Venus of Willendorf to the Austrian republic.
A little stone figure of a woman, found in the Wachau valley, is one of the most famous works of the Stone Age.
Te zien in: Natural History Museum ViennaCarnuntum is a Roman city of 50,000 people on the Danube frontier; its houses and baths have been rebuilt on the old foundations.
Te zien in: Carnuntum →From Vienna, the Habsburgs rule lands from Spain to Hungary and collect crowns, armour, paintings and treasures.
Te zien in: Imperial Treasury ViennaThe 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.
Te zien in: Wien Museum →Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert live and work in Vienna and Salzburg.
Te zien in: Mozart's BirthplaceKlimt and the Secession, Schiele, Otto Wagner and Freud make Vienna a laboratory of modern art and ideas.
Te zien in: Belvedere →Nazi Germany annexes Austria; at Mauthausen a concentration camp is built near Linz. The memorial keeps the names.
Te zien in: Mauthausen MemorialWith the State Treaty, Austria becomes independent and neutral again.
Te zien in: House of Austrian HistoryAn empress, a peace prize winner, a physicist and an inventor from Hollywood.
Ruled the Habsburg lands for 40 years, introduced school for all children and had sixteen children herself.
Te zien in: Schönbrunn PalaceThe restless empress who rode, travelled and wrote poetry; her life is told in the Hofburg.
Te zien in: Sisi MuseumAuthor of Lay Down Your Arms! and the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1905.
Physicist from Vienna who helped explain nuclear fission – an element, meitnerium, is named after her.
Te zien in: Technisches Museum Wien →Hollywood star from Vienna who also co-invented frequency hopping, an idea behind today's wireless technology.
Te zien in: Technisches Museum Wien →Painter of 'body awareness': how it feels to be inside your own body.
Te zien in: Albertina →Names that come back in Austrian museums.
Gold, ornament and the famous Kiss.
Te zien in: Belvedere →Sharp, nervous lines and honest self-portraits.
Te zien in: Leopold Museum →Expressionist portraits and the stormy Bride of the Wind.
Te zien in: Belvedere →Furniture, glass and silver of Vienna 1900, designed down to the spoon.
Te zien in: MAK – Museum of Applied ArtsColourful houses without straight lines, with trees growing out of the windows.
Te zien in: Kunst Haus Wien →Coffee houses, pastry and alpine cooking.
Thin veal in a golden crumb, with potato salad and a slice of lemon.
Chocolate cake with apricot jam and dark glaze, with unsweetened whipped cream.
Paper-thin pastry rolled around apples, raisins and cinnamon.
Torn, caramelised pancake with plum compote – loved by Emperor Franz Joseph.
Boiled beef in its broth with apple-horseradish and chive sauce, a Viennese Sunday meal.
Little noodles baked with mountain cheese and fried onions, from Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
Balls in winter, music in summer, cattle coming home in autumn.
Vienna dances through hundreds of balls, from the Opera Ball to the coffee-makers' ball.
Painted eggs and spring crafts in Vienna and Salzburg.
Opera, concerts and theatre in Mozart's city, with Everyman performed in front of the cathedral.
Opera on a giant stage floating on Lake Constance.
Cows decorated with flowers and bells come down from the mountain pastures.
Furry Krampus devils walk with Saint Nicholas; Christmas markets glow in every square.
The Vienna City Card and the Salzburg Card bundle museums and transport.
One autumn night, museums all over Austria open late with one ticket for all.
Fast ÖBB trains link Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Graz.
Order a Melange, take your time – a glass of water comes free and nobody will rush you.
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