Modern art museums in 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

The Leopold Museum is a museum in Vienna that originated from the private collection of Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold. The museum includes the largest Egon Schiele collection in the world with around 250 works. With a total of 5400 pieces ,it offers a good overview of the work of the most important r

The Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna features an exhibition on the history of psychoanalysis and the life of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) in Freud's former practice and apartment. The collection of the museum includes original items owned by Freud, the practice's waiting room, and parts of Freud's antiqu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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