museums, Vienna

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Hofmobiliendepot is the store of the furniture of the royal family that was transported togeather with the royal families, when they moved for a few weeks from one palace to another one. You have the feeling to walk through endless corridors of an auction-house, while passing by the original furniture that was used by austrian emperors and their families. Various Movie-productions have used these exhibits for their films. This furniture and other equipments of the former royal family was used for instance for the famous Sissi-movies !
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Hofmobiliendepot is open for visitors:
daily except Mondays : 10.ooam - 06.00pm
entrancefee is 6,90 euros
it is also part of the Sisi-Ticket for 22,50 euro including:
Kaiserappartements + Sisi Museum + Silberkammer +
Schoenbrunn palace & Hofmobiliendepot
valid for 1 entrance each within 1 year
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This museum is in a sidestreet of Mariahilferstrasse:
the adress is A-1070 Wien / Andreasgasse 7

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The Globenmuseum is a part of the Austrian National Library and it shows more than 600 globes and lots of antique maps of the world as well as of the moon and other planets and it is the biggest collection of its kind and the only globe-museum worldwide.
The first globes of the collection in this museum are dating back to the 17th century.
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The Globen-museum is open
daily except Mondays !
from 10.00am till 06.00pm
Thursday it is open even till 09.00pm
Dec 24th: 10.00am till 03.00pm
Dec. 31st : 10.00am - 06.00pm
The adress is Herrengasse 9

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Uhrenmuseum der Stadt Wien is an interesting collection of ancient clocks and watches, one of the best collections of its kind in Europe. Most of the clocks are still working and so you will hear them call the hours by the douzends every half hour.This collection was founded in 1923 inside of an old building with the adress Schulhof 2, that is close to Hoher Markt and Judenplatz.
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The Uhrenmuseum der Stadt Wien is open
Tuesday till Sunday and Holidays
between 10.00am and 06.00pm
it is closed in Dec. 25th, Jan 1st and May 1st
entrancefee is 4 euros
FREE entry each sunday !!!

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Römisches Museum is a museum under the street in Hoher Markt 3, just about 500 meters from the cathedral. At this place a fortified village called Vindobona was built by the Romans and 30.000 people were living there about 2000 years ago. Some other roman excarvations can be seen in front of the Hofburg, at Michaelaplatz, not in a museum, but in the street.
Roemisches Museum is open for visitors:
Tuesday till Sunday and Holidays
between 09.00am and 06.00pm
it is closed in Dec. 25th, Jan 1st and May 1st
entrancefee is 4 euros
FREE entry each sunday !!!

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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.

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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

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Wappensaal im Hofmobiliendepot is one of the highlights of this great museum. I saw some dancing-performances there in traditional costumes , that was really great. This hall is decorated with various coat of arms (Wappen is our expression for coat of arms), and it was built at the end of the 19th century by the architect k&k. Baurat Eugen Sehnal. You will get to this hall when taking the selfguided tour through Hofmobiliendepot in Mariahilferstrasse.

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The Egyptian room is another highlight of your selfguided tour through Hofmobiliendepot. You really need a lot of time inside of this interesting museum, 2-3 hours should be the minimum. The bed in my 3rd photo is quite modern, dating back to 1969. This museum is in a sidestreet of Mariahilferstrasse, the adress is Andreasgasse 7
Hofmobiliendepot is open for visitors:
daily except Mondays : 10.ooam - 06.00pm
entrancefee is 6,90 euros

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The Feuerwehrmuseum der Zentralwache is the museum of the firebrigades of Vienna and the museum was founded already in 1901. You will see there a lot of interesting machineries of the history of firefighting. I was lucky to see one of the steam-powered waterpumps during the "long nights of the museums" where it was still fully functional and made the central attraction of a demonstration of some old machineries out in the open air, while normally they will only stand inside the museum .
At the moment (end of 2009) the museum
is closed for restauration.
When it is open again , the entrance is free of charge
For infos and tours call :(+43 1) 531 99-51444
Am Hof 7 is the adress :
see it on this link !

What?

Vienna Museum, in Karlsplatz, is one of the less visited museum of the city, but if you have a couple of hours to spare it has interesting displays on the history and development of the city through drawings, illustrations, maps and paintings, some of them by renowned artists such as Klimt and Schiele.

Where?

Karlsplatz 5