Art

 

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Museums quarter

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien

The vision of a superlative cultural quarter has become reality in a spectacular union of historic and modern architecture. The highlights range from the Leopold Museum to the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna and the Architektur Zentrum Vienna. The Leopold Museum is a new museum comprising the world’s largest collection of works by Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl and many other representatives of Austrian Modernism.

The Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna has one of the largest European collections of modern and contemporary art.

The Architektur Zentrum Vienna is a center for international developments in architecture, an information center (publications, library etc.) and offers also a diversified program of exhibitions, seminars, discussions and congresses.

Kunst Haus Wien

3, Untere Weissgerberstrasse 13
Opening hours daily 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Two floors are home of a permanent exhibition presenting a survey of Hundertwasser, two top floors are reserved for temporary exhibitions of modern art. The ground floor houses a café-restaurant and a museum shop.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser has also designed an apartment project, the so called Hundertwasserhaus – 3, Löwengasse/Kegelgasse – which can be visited from the outside only.

Museum of Fine Arts

1, Maria-Theresien-Platz

The museum is one of the richest and most important art collections in the world. There are paintings of Bruegel, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of the world, Rubens, Rembrandt and Dürer.