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If you can not decide which museum to go here are
informations about some of them;
Technical Museum

The Technical Museum
recently reopened after renovations. Exhibits from
engineering, technology and industry are once again on
view. To name just a few: the famous Ettrich Dove, which
is still able to fly; steam engines, the bordeaux-red
Lohner Porsche, the functioning exhibition mine in the
basement...
These flashes of inspiration of the past have been
augmented by technical achievements of the present, such
as a computer tomograph or a television directing
console. And there are plenty of hands-on experiments
that appeal to adults as well as to children.
Technical innovations can also seen outside the museum:
this mansion from the year 1913, which was built to
complement nearby Schönbrunn Palace, features a new
entrance hall on the basement level.
The familiar appearance of sumptuous neo-Baroque and Art
Nouveau now contrasts with sober additions of glass and
aluminum.
Imperial Palace
- Hofburg

The Imperial Palace was
the residence of the Habsburg emperors until 1918.
Originally a medieval castle, of which only the chapel
has survived to this day, the residence of the court was
expanded and made ever more lavish as the power of the
Habsburgs grew and the territory of their dominions
increased.
Today, the Imperial Palace houses the offices of the
Austrian president, an international convention center,
the chapel where the Vienna Boys' Choir sings mass on
Sundays and religious holidays, the hall in which the
Lipizzan stallions of the Spanish Riding School perform,
various official and private apartments and several
museums and state rooms which are open to the public.
The New Palace (Neue Burg) is the most recent and, at the
same time, most monumental section of the Imperial
Palace. It now houses the Ethnological Museum, branches
of the Museum of Fine Arts: the Ephesus Museum displaying
art from classical antiquity in Asia Minor, the
Collection of Arms which ranks as the second-largest in
the world and the Collection of Historical Musical
Instruments
Museum of Fine
Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts
was built from 1872 to 1891 after designs by Gottfried
Semper and Karl von Hasenauer. Like the second great
museum at Ring Boulevard, the Museum of Natural History,
it was built as a repository for the vast collections
then owned by the imperial family.
The Museum of Fine Arts ranks among the richest and most
important art collections in the world. At the core of
the museum’s unique Picture Gallery are paintings by
Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Dürer, Raphael,
Titian and Velazquez, as well as the most comprehensive
collection of Bruegel’s paintings in the world.
Museum
Judenplatz Vienna


Judenplatz is considered
a singular place of remembrance; it combines three
things: Rachel Whiteread's Memorial, the excavations of a
medieval synagogue and a museum about medieval Jewry;
together they form a unique unit of remembrance.
Floor tiles around the memorial contain the names of the
places where Austrian Jews were killed during Nazi
tyranny.
The focal point of the Museum Judenplatz Vienna, which is
run by the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna [>],
are three exhibition rooms on medieval Jewry in Vienna
and the excavations of a medieval synagogue. Here, one
can learn about the religious, cultural and social life
of Viennese Jews in the Middle Ages, until they were
driven away and destroyed in the years 1420-21, the
so-called “Vienna Geserah”.
Museum of
Military History

The Museum of Military
History, designed by Theophil Hansen and Ludwig Förster,
lays in the center of the Arsenal (Armory, built from
1849 to 1856). Its collections give a thorough and
detailed overview of the development of Austrian military
life since the beginning of the 17th century.
Outstanding exhibits include the automobile in which
Archduke Francis Ferdinand rode and the uniform he wore
when he was assassinated at Sarajevo in June of 1914 (the
event touched off World War I) and an excellent display
dealing with the Austro-Hungarian navy.
The Essl
Collection

Klosterneuburg near
Vienna is offering the new museum of the Essl Collection,
the largest private collection of contemporary Austrian
art.
Heinz Tesar's eye-catching building adjacent to the
Danube water-meadows is exhibiting 400 works from this
collection of Austrian painting, sculpture, photography
and video art since 1945, supplemented by European and
American art from the same era.
Stars like Arnulf Rainer, Hermann Nitsch, Franz West,
Siegfried Anzinger and Hubert Schmalix are represented
with a large number of major works. The group of
"internationals" ranges from Georg
Baselitz,Gerhard Richter and Antoni Tàpies to Jenny
Holzer and Cindy Sherman.
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