Schönbrunn Palace

Schönbrunn Palace is one of Austria?s most important cultural treasures and has been one of the most visited sights in Vienna since the 1960?s.
One of the main attractions on the palace grounds is the world?s oldest existing zoo, Tiergarten Schönbrunn.

Prater

The Vienna Prater is a very spacious public park and recreation area in Vienna?s 2nd District, otherwise known as Leopoldstadt. Even to this day, most of this park is made up of riverside wetland areas. When people outside of Vienna mention the ?Prater?, they are generally only referring to the more famous amusement park located there and known by the locals as the "Wurstelprater".

St. Stephen's Cathedral

This Roman-Catholic cathedral is the emblem of Vienna and is generally regarded as one of Austria?s most precious sacred monuments.
The building is 107 meters long and 34 meters wide. The cathedral is one of the most important Gothic structures in all of Austria. 

Naschmarkt

The Naschmarkt is Vienna?s biggest inner-city market, with its stands filled primarily with fruit, vegetables, baked goods, fish and meat. The market is also famous for its selection of international goods imported from the countries of former Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and increasingly from East Asia, especially Japan and China.

Albertina

The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings. Apart from the graphics collection the museum has recently acquired on permanent loan two significant collections of Impressionist and early 20th century art, some of which will be on permanent display. The museum also houses temporary exhibitions.

Filmmuseum

The Film Museum is a specific exhibition space (film as a time-based event, the experience of a performative act), a collection site and archive (film as an artefact, as local and global memory), a research and study centre, as well as a place for public debate and reflection (film as a nodal point of discourse on culture and society).

Hofburg

Hofburg Imperial Palace is a palace in Vienna, Austria, which has housed some of the most powerful people in Austrian history, including the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria.

Die Spanische Hofreitschule

The Spanish Riding School (de: Spanische Hofreitschule, the "Spanish Court Riding-School") of Vienna, Austria, is a traditional riding school for Lipizzan horses, which perform in the Winter Riding School in the Hofburg. Not only is it a center for classical dressage, the headquarters is a tourist attraction in Vienna that offers public performances as well as permitting public viewing of some training sessions.

Schatzkammer

Schatzkammer in German translates as Treasury (Chamber/Vault). In old times, feudal rulers would keep their most precious belongings in a guarded vault, most often in the basement of their castle. The Treasury is devided into two sections - Secular and Ecclesiastical.

Heldenplatz

The Heldenplatz ("Heroes' Square") is a historical plaza in Vienna. The President resist in the part of the Hofburg next to the Heldenplatz.

Augustinerkirche

The Augustinian Church (German: Augustinerkirche) in Vienna is a parish church located on Josefsplatz, next to the Hofburg, the winter palace of the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna.

Michaelertrakt

The Michaelertrakt ist in the northern part of the Hofburg. In front of, there is the Michaelerplatz which is one of the most beautiful places in Vienna.

Äußeres Burgtor

Also named the Heldentor, this is the exit from the Heldenplatz to the Ringstraße.

Staatsoper

The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) is an opera house — and opera company — with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera (Wiener Hofoper); in 1920, it was renamed the Vienna State Opera. The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from its orchestra.

Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) is an opera house — and opera company — with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera (Wiener Hofoper); in 1920, it was renamed the Vienna State Opera. The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from its orchestra.

Theatermuseum

The Austrian Theatre Museum presents exhibitions on the themes central to the history of theatre-from spoken theatre to dance, from puppet shows to cinema and from pantomime to opera.

It brings together more than 100,000 hand sketches, nearly 1,000 stage prop and stage architecture models, over 700,000 photos, around 2,000 pieces of memorabilia having to do with famous actors and actresses, authors and composers, autographs of figures including Beethoven, Goethe and Mahler, Klimt’s painting “Nuda Veritas” and costumes, some of which were made according to designs by Kokoschka and Wotruba. With nearly 2 million items in its collections, it is probably the world’s largest museum of its kind. And to academics and anyone else interested in theatre, its archive represents an inestimably valuable resource. The library contains around 80,000 books and periodicals.

Naturhistorisches Museum

In display halls covering 8.700² metres the visitor can travel through our planet’s history, through the breathtaking diversity of nature and back to the origins of our culture.
On the upper ground floor (Hochparterre) can be seen fascinating and valuable precious stones and minerals, rare fossils and gigantic dinosaurs, as well as famous prehistoric works of art. One of the most important is the 25.000 year-old figure of “Venus von Willendorf”, the skeleton of a Diplodocus, the longest terrestrial vertebrate that has ever lived, a giant topaz weighing 117 kg and the valuable bouquet of jewels which Maria Theresia had made as a present for her husband.

Wien Museum am Karlsplatz

The Wien Museum has an exceptional position in the rich landscape of the Viennese museums: Its collections are a blend of art and history that leads the visitor down Vienna's path through the centuries. What you see are inestimable art treasures. What you feel is a city and its myth.

The main building on Karlsplatz is part of a great complex of outside branches, first and foremost the Hermesvilla in Lainzer Tiergarten and the memorial houses of the composers. Special exhibitions regularly present news from Vienna's past and the past of other great cities. Get on the discovery trail of a city. Welcome to Vienna and its museum!

Tiergarten Schönbrunn

Tiergarten Schönbrunn (literally, Schönbrunn Zoo) or Zoo Vienna is a zoo located on the grounds of the famous Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. Founded as an imperial menagerie in 1752, it is the oldest zoo in the world. Today Tiergarten Schönbrunn is considered and regards itself as a scientifically administered zoo which sees its main purpose as a centre for species conservation and general nature conservation as well as in the fulfillment of the education mandate given to it by the legislation. The still preserved buildings of the baroque era, which have been complemented in the last years by elements of modern zoo architecture, convey still a good impression of the 18th century menagerie-buildings after the Versailles model.

Haus des Meeres

More than 10.000 animals are shown on an area of 3.500 m² in the Haus des Meeres - Aqua Terra Zoo!

In the section for terrarium animals you see crocodiles, poisonous snakes, constrictor and saurians. The main attactions of the tropical seawater section are the huge fish tanks, the sharks, sea turtles, many different corals, as well as gorgeous fish. The center of the tropical freshwater is the aquarium containing piranhas.

A sensation is the new tropical house with free-flying birds and free-running monkeys and the new crocodile park.

The mediterranean sea section gives an overview over different life-forms of this ocean, starting with anemones to snakes, shells, crabs, sea urchins, starfishs and fish.

Kunsthaus Wien / Museum Hundertwasser

The Museum Hundertwasser presents a unique cross-section of the oeuvre of the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), including key paintings as well as graphic works, applied art, architectural designs and examples of the artist’s ecological commitment.

Karlskirche

The St. Charles's Church (German: Karlskirche) is a church situated on the south side of Karlsplatz, Vienna. It is located on the edge of the 1st district, 200 metres outside the Ringstraße. It is one of the most outstanding baroque church structures north of the Alps, and boasts a dome in the form of an elongated ellipsoid.

Ever since Karlsplatz was restored as an ensemble in the late 1980s, the Karlskirche has garnered fame due to its dome and its two flanking columns of bas-reliefs, as well as its role as an architectural counterweight to the buildings of the Musikverein and of the Vienna University of Technology.

Technisches Museum

On an area of 22.000 square meters, the Technisches Museum Wien offers a wide range of fascinating insights into the world of technology. Unique exhibits from the past to the present make the house a venue for exploring exciting technological developments.