Vienna Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Museums === [[File:Vienna - View of Maria Theresien-Platz and the Kunsthistorisches Museum - 6291.jpg|thumb|Kunsthistorisches Museum on Maria-Theresien-Platz]] The majority of museums in Vienna are located in an area on the border of Innere Stadt and Neubau in the center of the city, from the museums inside the Hofburg to the Museumsquartier, with the twin Naturhistorisches and Kunsthistorisches Museum in between. The [[Hofburg Palace|Hofburg]] is the location of the [[Imperial Treasury, Vienna|Imperial Treasury]] (''Schatzkammer''), which holds imperial jewels of the Habsburg dynasty. The Sisi Museum (a museum devoted to [[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]]) allows visitors to view the imperial apartments as well as the silver cabinet. The [[Weltmuseum Wien]], an anthropological museum, houses many ethnographic objects from Africa, America, Asia and Oceania. The [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] and the [[Naturhistorisches Museum]] are two identical buildings which were built in the late 19th century on behalf of [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Emperor Franz Joseph I]]. The former features paintings from artists such as [[Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio|Caravaggio]], [[Albrecht Dürer]], [[Raphael]], [[Rembrandt]], [[Titian]] and [[Johannes Vermeer|Vermeer]]. The latter has got 30 million objects in its collection, of which 100,000 are on display. A notable exhibit is the [[Venus of Willendorf]], a 25,000 year old statue found in Austria. [[File:Museumsquartier courtyard.jpg|thumb|The courtyard of the Museumsquartier]] Many museums are located in the [[MuseumsQuartier]] (museum quarter), the former Imperial Stalls which were converted into a museum complex in the 1990s. It houses the Museum of Modern Art, commonly known as the [[MUMOK]], the [[Leopold Museum]], which featuers many paintingsby [[Egon Schiele]], as well as works of the [[Vienna Secession]], Viennese Modernism and Austrian Expressionism) and the [[Architekturzentrum Wien]] (museum of architecture). There are a multitude of other museums in Vienna, including the [[Albertina, Vienna|Albertina]], the [[Heeresgeschichtliches Museum|Museum of Military History]], the [[Technisches Museum Wien|Technical Museum]], the [[Museum of Art Fakes]], the [[KunstHausWien]], [[Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna|Museum of Applied Arts]], the [[Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna)|Sigmund Freud Museum]], and the [[Mozarthaus Vienna]]. The [[Vienna Museum]] showcases the history of Vienna. The [[Jewish Museum Vienna]] was founded 1896 and is the oldest of its kind. The Liechtenstein Palace contains much of one of the world's [[Liechtenstein Museum|largest private art collections]], especially strong in the [[Baroque]]. The [[Belvedere (palace)|Belvedere]], built under [[Prince Eugene of Savoy|Prince Eugene]], has [[Österreichische Galerie Belvedere|a gallery]] containing paintings by [[Gustav Klimt]], [[Egon Schiele]], and sculptures by [[Franz Xaver Messerschmidt]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page