All contemporary art museums to visit in Vienna

Experience the cutting-edge world of contemporary art at 15 museums in Vienna. These museums showcase works by modern artists, exploring current themes and innovative techniques.

Are you a fan of contemporary art? These are the best contemporary art museums in Vienna:

  1. Albertina1

    Albertina

     Vienna
    The Albertina in Vienna houses one of the largest print rooms in the world, and used to be the biggest Habsburg residential palace, inhabited by one of Maria Theresa's daughters. The collection, which started in 1776, boasts over a million prints and tens of thousands of paintings dating all the way
  2. Online discount!MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art2

    MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art

     Vienna
    The MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art is a museum in Vienna that focuses on architecture and contemporary art and arts, crafts and design in general. The museum collects and exhibits furniture, glassware, ceramics, textiles, design and jewelry, among other things. It owns Wien
  3. Secession Building3

    Secession Building

     Vienna
    The Secessions building (Secessionsgebäude) is a building in Vienna where the artists of the Secession movement (the Austrian Jugendstil), came together. Since these were people who had separated themselves from the "Academy", it was intended to make fun of the ideas of classicism. The dome is an ey
  4. Academy of Fine Arts4

    Academy of Fine Arts

     Vienna
    Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna, German: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, is a public art academy of applied and visual arts in Vienna. Owning works of world-famous artists (some of which are almost 700 years old), the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna is a place for art lovers. The Academy is infa
  5. Ernst Fuchs Museum5

    Ernst Fuchs Museum

     Vienna
    The Ernst Fuchs Museum in Vienna is devoted to the Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, singer and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, Ernst Fuchs. The museum is housed in his Otto Wagner Villa that Fuchs acquired in
  6. Bank Austria Kunstforum6

    Bank Austria Kunstforum

     Vienna
    The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is an exhibition building in Vienna, sponsored by Bank Austria, housed in the former bank building. The museum holds and exhibits a collection that mainly focuses on Austrian Art. The collection comprises over 9,000 works. Highlights include works by Ferdinand Georg
  7. Online discount!Museum of Art Fakes7

    Museum of Art Fakes

     Vienna
    The Museum of Art Fakes (The Fälschermuseum Wien) is a private museum for art forgeries in Vienna. The museum includes works by Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren and the London restorer Tom Keating, who claimed to have faked more than 2000 works by more than one hundred artists. Also on display
  8. Online discount!Belvedere 218

    Belvedere 21

     Vienna
    The Belvedere 21 (or 21er Haus) is a building that was built in 1958 as an Austrian pavilion for Expo 58 in Brussels and used in Vienna from 1962 to 2001 as a museum of the 20th century. The museum is now a museum of both modern and contemporary art an has Austrian art of the 20th and 21st centuries
  9. MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek9

    MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek

     Vienna
    The MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek (MUSA Museum Artothek Art Gallery) is a museum in Vienna that holds the collection of contemporary art of the cultural department of the city of Vienna. The currently approximately 20,000 objects by 3,500 artists offer an overview of Viennese art development sin
  10. Quartier2110

    Quartier21

     Vienna
    Each month Quartier21 (Q21) introdues its visitors to one of the more than 50 art and culture initiatives housed at Q21 fir that month. It shows temporary internationally curated group exhibitions with free admission.
  11. Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz11

    Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz

     Vienna
    The Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz is the second location of Kunsthalle Wien. It is a glass cube that is described to function as a test tube for artistic expressions, an accelerating machine for an art scene that will never feel right in marble halls and stucco halls.
  12. Kunsthalle Wien12

    Kunsthalle Wien

     Vienna
    The Kunsthalle Wien is a municipal contemporary exhibition space for modern and contemporary art in Vienna that opened in 1992. The art hall organizes themed group exhibitions and solo presentations of various contemporary artists from both the Austrian as well as the international art scene.
  13. Architekturzentrum Wien13

    Architekturzentrum Wien

     Vienna
    The Architekturzentrum Wien is the national architecture museum of Austria, located in Vienna. It is a center for exhibitions, events and research in architecture and related topics, with a focus on architecture and urban design of the 20th and 21st centuries. The permanent exhibition in the Archite
  14. mumok Museum of Modern Art Stiftung Ludwig Wien14

    mumok Museum of Modern Art Stiftung Ludwig Wien

     Vienna
    mumok is one of Europe’s largest and leading museums featuring art produced since the advent of modernity, which it collects, explores, and exhibits to a wide art-loving audience. In addition to such renowned stars as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Maria Lassnig, and Cosima von Bonin, the presentation
  15. IKONO Vienna15

    IKONO Vienna

     Vienna
    Discover IKONO, the new immersive experience located in the heart of Vienna. Immerse yourself in enchanting worlds where art, play, and wonder meet to create unforgettable moments to share with those you love. Explore more than 12 interactive spaces, each serving as a canvas for your inner creativit