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Okay this is not a great museum but it is still worth a visit if you are in Vienna for more than a couple of days and if you have the time. The museum has a collection of Old Masters that is fine but not great. However the star attraction of this gallery is the "Last Judgement" by Hieronymus Bosch, one of his great masterpieces. It is the only triptyth of his outside of Spain and its magnificance justifies a visit to this otherwise indifferent museum.
The gallery is actually part of an art school of the same name. It probably has become more famous for being the art academy that rejected aspiring artist Adolf Hitler not once but twice Think of how history would of changed had he been admitted.
The Museum hours are: Tues–Sun 10am–4pm;
It cost 5 Euros to enter. Leave a Comment
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This museum was opened in 1921 and is located on three floors in a former palace which was built around the end of the 17th Century. There are around 1200 clocks, pocket watches and watches ranging from the 15th to 20th centuries. Some of the clocks are delicately painted, some are astronomical with pictures of planets and stars, some are carved from wood, some are huge grandfather clocks. You can see the original clock work from the Stephansdom's clock (as in the photo) and also find the smallest pendulum clock in the world which is the size of a thimble.
In the first district, Schulhof 2, near Judenplatz, (walk from either Stephansplatz, U1/U3 Schottentor U2 or Herrengasse U3) Its open daily except Mondays from 9 till 16:30. Leave a Comment Phone: 533 22 65
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The Third Man Private Collection is a small private museum in the 4th district, only open on Saturday afternoons - unless you book as a group - and is dedicated to The Third Man and post-war occupied Vienna. Tickets cost EUR 6 for adults and EUR 4 for concessions. There is a wide range of photographic material. One of the latest additions to the collection is the photo collection of Anton Karas, which alone must make this worth a visit.
Pressgasse 25, 1040 Wien
U4: Kettenbrückengasse Leave a Comment Phone: 5864872Website: www.3mpc.net Other Contact: open Saturdays 2pm-6pm
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The Haus des Meeres (House of the Sea) is the place to see a variety of fish, sealife and reptiles. There is also a tropical house built on the side with monkeys and birds. It is located in the Flakturm (huge concrete tower) in the Esterhazypark close to Mariahilferstrasse and is open daily from 10-18. To get there take 13A ,14A or 57a buses or the U3. Entrance fees: adults 8.5 kids 4 student discount.
You can stroke snakes on Wednesdays at 14:00 and watch shark and piranhas being fed on Mondays and Sundays at 15:00. Watch the reptiles being fed on Sundays at 10 Leave a Comment
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The strange building of "Haus des Meeres" used to be an air-raid-shelter during WW II and after the war they built various aquariums inside. Outside of the tower you may practice climbing up the walls and next to the tower is also a "Museum of Torture".
Haus des Meeres is in Esterhazy-Park, just about 100 meters south of Mariahilferstrasse, when coming from Ringstrasse, turn left at the church "Mariahilf"
Haus des Meeres : the aquariums may be visited daily 09.00a.m.-06.00p.m.
every thursday open untill 09.00p.m.
sharks and Piranjas are fed wednesday&saturday at 03.oop.m.,
reptiles are fed at sunday 10.00a.m.
snakes could be hugged wednesdays at 02.oop.m. - What a place !!
Climbing the tower : Mon-Fri 02.00 p.m. till darkness comes, BUT latest till 10.00p.m.
saturday, sunday and holidays they start already at 01.00p.m.
The torture-museum is open daily 10.00a.m. till 06.00p.m. Leave a Comment
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In Berggasse 19 ( close to Univerity and Votivirche ) you may visit Sr.Sigmund Freud's medical practice. Dr.Freud left Vienna in 1938 and went to London,
where he died.In 1971 the rooms of the former practice were turned into a museum and Anna Freud gave plenty of private belongings,pictures and furnitures to the museum as a donation.
So you may see Freud's famous Sofa and other personal belongings, you may see a video of 20 minutes about the founder of the psychoanalysis.
The Freud-Museum is on the 1st floor of a private building and you will have to ring the bell at the house-entrance to get the door open and once again you have to ring the bell, when you enter the medical practice.
Sigmund-Freud-Museum A-1090 Wien - Berggasse19
the museum is open daily 09.00 a.m. - 05.00 p.m.
(and July till september even till 06.00 p.m.)
5 Euro entrance-fee and you will get a big booklet
with infos in German,English,French,Italian and Spanish
and Audioguides in German and English
When standing on the Ringstraße in front of Votivkirche -
take " Währingerstraße " on the right of Votivkirche
Berggasse will be the 5th street to the right Leave a Comment
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The famous villa by Otto Wagner from the 1880ies was redesigned by Ernst Fuchs in a very distinctive way. The villa itself is located on a slope in the Wiener Wald. You have to book in advance!
See my Travelogue for more pictures! Leave a Comment Phone: +43(1)9148575Other Contact: Hütteldorferstraße 26, Vienna
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Maria-Theresia-Platz.
This square seperates the Kunsthistorisches Museum from the Natural History Museum and focuses around an 1888 statue of Maria Theresa by Kaspar von Zumbusch. It shows the Empress clasping the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, which made it possible for a woman to succeed to the throne. Leave a Comment
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My mother take Esperanto courses and I got interested in this language. I had heard that Vienna is one of the centres of Esperanto and had hoped I could buy some books in the bookstores. But no, I didn't see anything than what the stores in Mannheim wouldn't have.
Then,quite by chance I saw a sign of the Museum for Esperanto.
The museum is only open a few hours a week, it is very small, but I found it fascinating. It tells about the history of Esperanto, shows a few posters and there are some TV screens where apparently you get told some more. Apart from me there was only one other visitor and when he tried to get the videos running they didn't work.
However, there is also a large screen and I was able to watch a comic in Esperanto. Absolute beginner level, so I managed to understand most of it.
No bookstore, but a very friendly staff member gave me some internet links for books in Esperanto.
The museum is part of the national librabry of Austria. Entrance fee was two Euro. It is slightly opposite the Café Central in Herrengasse. Leave a Comment
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Schmetterlings Haus (Butterfly house)
This is an old green house that was turned into a butterfly house.
See my Travel Log for the pictures.
The place is located at the back of the Burggarten park. Leave a Comment
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