Viennese museums and sights – discover Vienna your way
Viennese museums and sights
dignities – discover Vienna your way
St. Stephen’s Cathedral and around it
It started with a small church outside of the city wall almost 800 years ago. Today, St. Stephen’s Cathedral is the center of the city and its spire towers 137 meters above our heads. The art of the master builders of the Gothic period created a unique building that still amazes us today.
The cathedral has always been an important building for the Viennese. They contributed to its construction and after the great fire in 1945 to its reconstruction. The cathedral tells a story about Austria and Vienna and many little stories about craftsmen, servants and the inhabitants of the city.
We look at the cathedral from the inside and from the outside. If you have time and feel like it, we’ll also climb the South Tower with its spectacular view and take a spin around Stephansplatz and Domgasse, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived.
The Vienna Kunstkammer – a collection with a wow effect
A tour through the Chamber of Wonders of the Habsburgs
The Vienna Kunstkammer –
a collection with
Wow effect
A tour through the Chamber of Wonders of the Habsburgs
Exotic materials, particularly fine craftsmanship, precious gems and extraordinary objects – to possess such things testified to rank and position.
Besides the fascination for the wonders of nature, the interest in the unusual also stimulated the passion for collecting of the Habsburg emperors and archdukes.
The Kunstkammer in the Kunsthistorisches Museum gathers exquisite and exotic items as well as evidence of the most refined craftsmanship from the Middle Ages to the 18th century and continues to amaze us to this day.
Capuchin crypt- Vienna’s imperial bones
For 400 years the crypt served as a burial place for the Habsburg family. 150 family members are buried here – among them Maria Theresa and Sisi. Their life and death stories tell history, their coffins show us their self-confidence and the crypt testifies to the connection between the ruling house and the church over the centuries.
A visit to the Capuchin Crypt is an immersion in Austrian history and a fast-forward journey from the 17th to the 20th century. Our visit to the crypt lasts about 75 minutes and you are guaranteed to learn a few new details about Habsburg archduchesses, kings and emperors.
I would be happy to show you the square in front of the tomb with the famous Fountain. It’s best to reserve another 20 minutes for this.
The Vienna Kunstkammer – a collection with a wow effect
A tour through the Chamber of Wonders of the Habsburgs
Capuchin Crypt-
Vienna imperial bones
For 400 years the crypt served as a burial place for the Habsburg family. 150 family members are buried here – among them Maria Theresa and Sisi. Their life and death stories tell history, their coffins show us their self-confidence and the crypt testifies to the connection between the ruling house and the church over the centuries.
A visit to the Capuchin Crypt is an immersion in Austrian history and a fast-forward journey from the 17th to the 20th century. Our visit to the crypt lasts about 75 minutes and you are guaranteed to learn a few new details about Habsburg archduchesses, kings and emperors.
I would be happy to show you the square in front of the tomb with the famous Fountain. It’s best to reserve another 20 minutes for this.
The Vienna Treasury –
A house for many crowns
Have you noticed how many crowns can be seen in Vienna? On some buildings and monuments, three or four different ones. How come? And how is it that the crown of the Holy Roman Empire is kept in Vienna? And the cradle of Napoleon’s son?
In the course of Austrian history, signs and symbols of power have evolved and changed, gaining and losing meaning. The Imperial Treasury in the Hofburg shows us the imperial regalia of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Empire as well as valuable treasures from Austrian history.
Women in the Vienna Museum of Art History –
Collectors, painters and portrayed
The Habsburg art collection predates any gender sensitivity. It is all the more interesting to follow the traces of women and the image of women that can be found there.
In doing so, we look at illustrations and (self-)representations from the 16th to the 18th century through the eyes of today’s visitors. Some of it will seem puzzling to us, some surprisingly topical. After a short detour to the Kunstkammer, our visit leads through the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Seating is available in many halls.
