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Museum World Of Vienna
ienna’s museums, galleries radiate the splendor of the
and collections are Austrian monarchy.
world-famous. Housed in
splendid imperial buildings on The Museum of Applied Art
the Viennese Ring road the Museum exhibits fine craftsmanship, art
of Fine Arts and the Natural and design from many epochs.
History Museum captivate the Following the traces of the
visitor with their impressive Viennese art nouveau period, the
exhibition objects. The Secession from Otto Wagner is the
collections in the Museum of Fine most important sight of interest
Arts were mainly assembled for in the city. One is impressed not
centuries by the Habsburgers. only by the golden domed roof,
but also by the Beethoven frieze
Habsburgers loved the Dutchmen from Gustav Klimt. The slogan of
Bruegel, Rubens, Van Dyck, the the “The Association of Visual
Venetians and Duerer. The Artists Austria’s Secession”:
surroundings of The “Art and “the time of their art - the art
Treasure Chambers” as well as the of their liberty”. Art nouveau,
picture galleries give one the which affected not only
feeling, even today, of visiting architecture, but influenced all
a distinguished princely private ranges of daily life, is
collection. One becomes inseparably connected with names,
acquainted with the art and such as Otto Wagner, Josef
culture of the former emperors of Hofmann, Kolo Moser, Gustav
Austria with a walk round the Klimt, Egon Schiele and Adolf
museums in their former living Loos.
and function rooms: The Sissi
museum, the art collections in The Albertina collection, the
the Belvedere castle, castle Palace Liechtenstein and the
Schoenbrunn and the Hofburg still numerous galleries of Vienna are
further places to visit for foremost annual event.
culture-interested Vienna
holiday-makers. The KunstHaus World-class museums are found in
Vienna is accommodated in a house the area which include the
built by Friedensreich Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna’s premier
Hundertwasser. Beside works of exhibition space for
the famous painter and architect international contemporary and
one can also see drawings of modern art; the Leopold Museum,
modern art, photography and important for modern Austrian
graphics. art, including the Secession,
Viennese Modernism and
Vienna has built a museum quarter Expressionism, as well being home
that is one of the ten largest to the largest collection of work
cultural districts in the world. by Egon Schiele; and the Museum
It took a decade to be Moderner Kunst, one of Europe’s
constructed. largest collections of modern and
contemporary art.
The MuseumsQuartier Wien is a
place where 20 autonomous The area’s architecture
artistic institutions, ranging represents a fusion of the
from a creativity centre for original 18th-century buildings
children to a classical art with modern work. The former were
museum, from headquarters for renovated by Manfred Wehdorn,
dance, film, architecture and while a separate team, Laurid
theatre to forums for new media Ortner, and were engaged for the
and art theatre. A surfeit of latter. The aim is to provide
shops and restaurants surround physical and historic links
the complex, which has also between old and new, art and
become the main venue for the recreation, audience and
Vienna Festival, the city’s architect. Vienna is one of the
few European metropolises to have and modern in its cityscape.
achieved harmony between ancient
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