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Kurpark Oberlaa
X., Laaer-Berg-Str. 211
Tel. 68 11 70
Open daily from 6am, May-Aug until 10pm, Sept-Oct until 9pm, Nov-Jan until 6pm, Feb-April per month 1 hour longer

Agricultural museum on a former agriculture-exhibition ground. Nearby: Kurkonditorei Oberlaa, Neuer Markt 16, daily 9am-6pm, Austria’s best patisserie of its genre. A must for all sweet-tooths!

Loos-Haus
I., Michaelerplatz 3

This building for both residential and professional use (1910-1911) by the avant-garde architect Adolf Loos is an example of pure functional architecture without frills.

Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK) (Museum of Applied Art)
I., Stubenring 5
Tel. 71 13 60
www.mak.at
Tuesday-Sunday 10am-8pm, Thursdays till 9pm. Closed on 1 January, 1 May, 1 November, 25 December.

The new Museum of Applied Art was founded in 1864 as the ‘Museum for Art and Industry’. The handsome building has sgrafitto decorations and majolica portraits by famous artists on its façade, and was constructed in 1871 in neo-Renaissance style by Heinrich Ferstel. On view: European and Oriental applied art from Roman times to the present. Main attractions: Viennese Jugendstil, Biedermeyer, Thonet furniture and works from the Wiener Werkstätten (Ateliers for Applied Art founded by Josef Hoffmann and Kolo Moser in 1903).

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