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Museum für
Völkerkunde (Museum of Folklore)
I., Neue Burg, Heldenplatz
Tel. 53 43 00
www.ethno-museum.ac.at
Closed until 2007 because of renovations.
Wednesday-Monday 10am-4pm
Here you can see one of the most wide-ranging ethnographic
collections in the world. A.o. James Cook’s Polynesian collection,
bronzes from Benin, and Aztec art. Also holds temporary exhibitions.
Museum
Moderner Kunst
Palais Liechtenstein
IX., Fürstengasse 1
Tel. 525 20
www.mumok.at
Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, Thursday till 9 pm
On the ground floor, the collections of the deceased Cologne
industrialist Peter Ludwig with, amongst others, work by Andy Warhol and
Roy Lichtenstein. This museum is the largest of its kind in Central
Europe and gives a splendid overview of art from the second half of the
20th century. The accompanying Museum des 20.Jahrhunderts (Museum
of the 20th Century), the ‘Zwanz’gerhaus’ in the Schweizer Garten,
shows contemporary sculptures and organises temporary exhibitions.
The
Museum Moderner Kunst/Stiftung Ludwig Wien ( 525 00,
www.mumok.at, Tue-Su 10am-6pm, Thu
until 9pm), a cubistic building of the architects Ortner& Ortner,
surrounded by a cloak of basalt lava, houses one of the largest
collections of modern and contemporary European art. It mostly consists
of classic modern art from the 60’s and 70’s and installation and
object art from the foundation of the Ludwig couple in Aachen.
Naturhistorisches
Museum
I., Burgring 7
Entrance via Maria-Theresia-Platz
Tel. 52 17 70
www.nhm-wien.ac.at/nhm
Wednesday-Monday 9am-6.30pm, Wednesday till 9pm
The twin building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, with a magnificent
façade, holds one of Europe’s most important natural history
collections. It was begun by Franz Joseph of Lorraine, Maria Theresia’s
husband. The ‘children’s hall’ for families, conceived in
didactically excellent fashion, and the Saurian Hall with its
prehistoric section, are both well worth visiting. The museum’s
showpiece is the ‘Venus of Willendorf’, a 23,000-year-old limestone
sculpture.
Österreichische
Galerie des 19. Und 20. Jahrhunderts
Schloss Belvedere
III., Prinz-Eugen-Strasse 27
Tel. 79 55 70
Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm
Modern art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sizeable collection of
work by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, the most famous
Viennese painters of recent times, but also landscape painters such as
F.G.Waldmüller.
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