WestLicht Center for Photography
WestLicht Center for Photography Vienna’s first museum dedicated purely to photography opened in 2011 in a former glass factory and the following year combined its collection with the OstLicht Gallery in Absberggasse, which curates special exhibitions of hard-hitting, edgy contemporary photography
Werfen Ice Caves (Eisriesenwelt)
Werfen Ice Caves (Eisriesenwelt) The world’s largest ice caves wend 19 miles (30 km) under the Tennengebirge Mountains in the Salzach district of the Austrian Alps; they were discovered in 1879 and a mystical subterranean underworld was unveiled to the world. Pick a clear, sunny day as your visit
Toy Museum (Spielzeugmuseum)
Toy Museum (Spielzeugmuseum) Housed in the elegant Renaissance Bürgerspital, which was once a hospital, the Toy Museum was founded in 1978 and surrounds one of the most beautiful cloistered courtyards in Salzburg. It is an offshoot of the Salzburg Museum, which incorporates seven branches, includi
Tiroler Landesmuseum
Tiroler Landesmuseum The Tyrolean Cultural Museum was founded in 1823 and consists of a group of museums set up to showcase Tyrolean culture; it includes the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, the Zeughaus (Armory), the Volkskunstmuseum (Museum of Tyrolean Folk Art), and the Hofkirche (Court Chur
Time Travel Vienna
Time Travel Vienna For good old family fun and a rip-roaring jaunt through history, Time Travel Vienna is the city’s newest kid on the block, and where great culture meets light-hearted Disney. Housed in the former monastery of St Michael, the history of Vienna from its beginnings as Roman Vindobo
Theseus Temple
Theseus Temple The focal point of the Volksgarten in Vienna is the Theseus Temple. It is a Greek-style temple that was built in 1820-1823 as a replica of the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion) in the ancient Agora of Athens. It was originally built to house one piece of art, the “Theseus and the Mino
Swarovski Crystal Worlds
Swarovski Crystal Worlds Swarovski is arguably Austria’s best-known export; the crystals that brought the company a worldwide success have been incorporated into a subterranean theme park with a difference in Wattens, a suburb of Innsbruck. It’s more modern art gallery than behind-the-scenes glimp
Stiegl Brauwelt (Stiegl World of Beer)
Stiegl Brauwelt (Stiegl World of Beer) The number-one destination of beer lovers, Austria’s most popular brewing exhibition is found Salzburg’s oldest brewery, which was built in 1863, although Stiegl has actually been brewing ever since 1492 and the company remains independent to this day. In med
Salzburg Cathedral (Dom)
Salzburg Cathedral (Dom) Salzburg’s Cathedral, or Dom, is a restrained exercise in classic Italian Baroque, topped with green bronze domes. Mozart was baptized here, and the building was completed in 1628. Highlights include the light-filled atrium and dome, the crypt with its Romanesque foundatio
Palais Auersperg
Palais Auersperg One of a string of Imperial palaces and mansions built across Vienna in the 17th and 18th centuries, Palais Auersperg is Vienna’s oldest Baroque palace, built between 1706 and 1710. Its white, lacy façade bears the unmistakable stamp of Baroque master architect Johann Bernhard Fis
Otto Wagner Pavillon Karlsplatz
Otto Wagner Pavillon Karlsplatz The lovely green, gold and white-marble pavilion on Vienna’s Karlsplatz has finally found a new purpose in life; designed by Otto Wagner in 1897 as part of the city’s new train station, it has now become the permanent home to an exhibition on the life of this extrao
Neue Burg
Neue Burg An outpost of Vienna’s fabulous Kunsthistorisches Museum, Neue Burg forms a semi-circular wing of the Hofburg Palace complex, which was commissioned for the Habsburg Imperial Family in 1881. True to the Habsburg motto that bigger is better, the palace is of spectacular Baroque design ins
Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum)
Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum) With a history dating back to 1889 and a permanent collection made up of over 20 million objects, the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum) is one of the largest and most renowned natural history museums in the world. The counterpart to
Museum of Natural History (Haus der Natur)
Museum of Natural History (Haus der Natur) Located in two buildings on Museumsplatz near the River Salzach, Salzburg’s natural history museum was founded in 1924. It is an offshoot of the Salzburg Museum, which incorporates seven branches including the Toy Museum (Spielzeug Museum) and the Monatss
Museum of Modern Art Rupertinum
Museum of Modern Art Rupertinum Salzburg’s modern art museum consists of two parts; the MDM Rupertinum is housed in an elegant medieval palace in the Altstadt (Old Town) while the MDM Mönchsberg sits on a rocky crag above the city. Together the MdM Salzburg buildings offer over 3,000 meters of exh
Museum of Modern Art Monchsberg
Museum of Modern Art Monchsberg Salzburg’s superb museum of modern Austrian art comes as a contemporary change after the city’s relentless Baroque charm. It has two branches: the MDM Rupertinum and the MDM Mönchsberg. The latter perches above the city on the rocky crag of Mönchsberg, one of five s
Museum of Military History (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum)
Museum of Military History (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum) Located in the middle of the Arsenal and designed by Ludwig Foerster and Theophil Hansen in the 1850s, the Museum of Military History (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum) is the oldest museum in Vienna and one of the most important military histo
Mozarteum
Mozarteum Salzburg is the city of Mozart and music festivals and is also home to several Baroque orchestras. Most prestigious is the Mozarteum Orchestra, which was founded in 1841 with the help of Mozart’s widow and their sons; today it is one of Austrias leading symphony orchestras under the lead
Michael Haydn Museum
Michael Haydn Museum The museum featuring the work of Michael Haydn, younger brother of the much-more-famous Baroque composer Joseph Haydn, is found in the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter, parts of which date back to 696 AD, making it the oldest abbey in Austria. Johann Michael Haydn lived between 1
Maria-Theresien-Strasse
Maria-Theresien-Strasse Named for the much-revered Empress Maria Theresa by then sovereign of pretty much all of Europe, she is the only female Habsburg ruler and the last of the line when she died in 1780. Maria-Theresien-Strasse is Innsbruck’s pedestrianized main street. It’s lined with his
