Museums in Vienna
Austria · 3 museums
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World Museum Guide covers 3 museums in Vienna, Austria — led by Belvedere Museum, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Natural History Museum Vienna — with verified admission prices, opening hours, and highlights for each. 2 offer free standard admission.
Top museums in Vienna
- 1. Belvedere Museum · 2–3 hours
- 2. Kunsthistorisches Museum · 3–4 hours
- 3. Natural History Museum Vienna · 2–3 hours
Belvedere Museum
The Belvedere is one of the finest baroque palace complexes in Europe, built for Prince Eugene of Savoy in the early 18th century. The Upper Belvedere (1722) is now the main museum, holding Austria's greatest art collection from the Middle Ages to the present. The formal gardens between the Upper and Lower Belvedere palaces are among the most beautiful in Vienna.
⏱ 2–3 hours
Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History) opened in 1891 as Emperor Franz Joseph I's monument to the Habsburg imperial art collections. Designed by Gottfried Semper and Karl von Hasenauer, the building itself is a masterwork of 19th-century historicism, with ceiling paintings in the grand staircase by Gustav Klimt among the commission's highlights.
⏱ 3–4 hours
Natural History Museum Vienna
The Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna (NHM) opened in 1889 as a twin to the Kunsthistorisches Museum across the square. Its collection of 30 million objects makes it one of the largest natural history museums in the world, covering mineralogy, petrology, geology, palaeontology, anthropology, and zoology.
⏱ 2–3 hours