The Albertina not only has the largest and most valuable graphical collections in the world, with works such as D�rer�s �Hare� and Klimt's studies of women. Its latest exhibition collection presents masterpieces of the Modern, spanning Monet to Picasso and Baselitz. As the largest Hapsburg residential palace, the Albertina dominates the southern tip of the Imperial Palace on one of the last remaining fortress walls in Vienna.

Hofburg Palace or yhe Imperial Palace features some of the most powerful people in European and Austrian history, including the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austria-Hungary empire.

Nowadays is the official residence of the President of Austria.

The Hofburg owes its size and architectural diversity to plain old one-upmanship; new sections were added by the new rulers, including the early baroque Leopold Wing , the 18th-century Imperial Chancery Wing, the 16th-century Amalia Wing and the Gothic Burgkapelle (Royal Chapel). The oldest section is the 13th-century Schweizerhof (Swiss Courtyard), named after the Swiss guards who used to protect its precincts.

The Künstlerhaus, in other words the Artist house of Vienna is an art exhibition located on Karlsplatz.

Built in 1868,this museum hosts major exhibitions in the main building and boasts a wide-ranging program of events. It includes events accompanying exhibitions, international movie series at the Künstlerhaus cinema, a theater program, DJ line-ups and the annual summer festival.

In one of the oldest houses in the Leopoldstadt, the so-called "soap boiler house", which was shown to built long before the first documentary mention in 1685, the Vienna Crime Museum, combined with the traditional Museum of the Vienna Federal Police Directorate (formerly Imperial Police Museum) housed.

The museum consists of 20 rooms, where the history of the judiciary , the police organization and the crime from the Middle Ages to the new time is presented. There are medieval prisons and the last public executions shown in Vienna. Further interesting individual criminal cases such as that of the poisoner court judge or the case Josefine Luner from the interwar period shown.
The exhibits include many original documents and reproductions of criminal cases, court crime scene photos and texts, and body parts of executed criminals, including the skull of the child murderer Juliana Hummel and the Jacobin Franz Hebenstreit .

The Kunsthalle Wien is a non-collecting art centre which organizes and hosts temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.

At two locations, one at the MuseumsQuartier and one at Karlsplatzt, his museum focuses on presenting international contemporary and modern art.

Themed exhibits convey the developments and relationships from the modern era up to today's art scene.

Designed by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, KunstHausWien (Art House Vienna) or Hundertwasser Museum features the world's only permanent exhibition of Hundertwasser's works, and also hosts regular temporary exhibitions of other artists.

You can see his paintings, graphics, tapestry, philosophy, ecology and architecture.

Don't forget to visit the rooftop

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in other words is the Museum of Art History.

The museum has sculptures from classical times (and some copies) in its Egyptian-Oriental collection, atiques, a coin collection, and decorative curiosities from the Renaissance and baroque epochs (this section was closed for long-term restoration at the time of publication).

The collections are: Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection,Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities,Picture Gallery
Collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts,Coin Collection and the
the Library.

Dont's miss the unique Picture Gallery.

Hundreds of masterworks of Austrian modern art collected by the passionate art lover Dr. Rudolf Leopold are shown in the new Leopold Museum at MuseumsQuartier near the Imperial Palace.

The Leopold Museum is a unique treasure-trove of Viennese art nouveau, the Vienna Workshop and of the Expressionist period.

Here are place one of the biggest Rubens collections and key works by van Dyck, Lucas Cranach and Raffael can be admired, as can works by Rembrandt, van Ruysdael and Hamilton.

The gardens of the palace initially baroque are now in English style with lots of water, big trees, more of a wild look.

The Museum of Fine Arts was built in 1891 near the Imperial Palace to house the extensive collections of the imperial family. With its vast array of eminent works and the largest Bruegel collection in the world, it is considered one of the most eminent museums in the world.

300 characteristic items from the permanent collection, representing Pop Art, Fluxus, Nouveau R�alisme and Vienna Actionism, will be shown at MUMOK, the new dark-gray basalt building in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier.

Vienna's Museum of Natural History is one of the important museums of the world.

Here are exposed thousands of objects representing the earth and life sciences convey an impression of the breathtaking diversity of nature.

Precious minerals, rare fossils, huge dinosaurs and unique prehistoric findings, sare among the things you'll find in the interior.

On the upper floor (Hochparterre) precious stones, minerals (some with origin in old Renaissance collections) and meteorites (the largest display collection in the world) can be seen, along with large dinosaur displays and rare fossils, and along with prehistoric art works: the Venus von Willendorf, the skeleton of Diplodocus, a giant topaz crystal weighing 117 kg (258 lb), and the gemstone-and-diamond bouquet of flowers which Maria Theresia had made as a present for her husband.

The first floor displays the species variety of the animal world, from protozoa to insects to highly developed mammals.

Objects over 200 years old are of interest, not only on their own account but also as historical records for the history of science and the art of taxidermy: numerous stuffed animals of species either extinct, or extremely endangered, have made the collections irreplaceable.

Is importa to remember that most signs and explanations in the museum are in German only.

The Palais Pallavicini is the result of a variety of reconstruction and remodeling work done on a former convent location, called “Queen’s Monastery” or “Convent of Poor Clares Mary, Queen of Angels” founded in 1581 by Elisabeth, widow of King Charles IX of France and daughter of Maximilian II. The building’s foundation was laid in 1582. The monastery hence was closed on 12 Jan.1782 under Emperor Joseph II and then split into various building sections.

Constructed in 1784 in a Neoclassical style, the interior rooms are richly decorated with stucco, crystal mirrors and chandeliers.

Schönbrunn Palace is a imperial 1,441-room Rococo summer residence where you you'll get to know the tastes, interests, and aspirations of successive Habsburg monarchs.

Inside you'll see grand rooms and background on the habits and quirks of Austria’s famous family.

40 of the rooms are open to the public. The Imperial Tour takes you into 26 of these, and in the last room those on a Grand Tour show their tickets again and continue through the remaining rooms. Note that the Grosse Galerie (Great Gallery), part of both tours.

The Sigmund Freud Museum exhibits the documention Freud's life and work, the founder of psychoanalysis.

Freud lived and worked in this house from 1891 until 1938, when on 4 June he was forced by the National Socialists to flee with his family into exile in England

Here you can find Freud’s obsessions as travelling, smoking or collecting ancient art as is seen in all of the building.

On the 2nd floor take place the temporary exhibitions.

The Vienna Furniture Museum. This museum, started by Empress Maria Theresa around 1750, was the depository for the Imperial furnishings.

The museum consists of the depository on Mariahilfer Strasse and the Biedermeier house on Andreasgasse. These two buildings are connected via a central ticket office/vestibule.

The history of the earth and the breathtaking variety of nature can be practically experienced due to 20 million objects: From insects to gemstones and minerals and pterodactyls, the Habsburgs united everything under the roof of this museum near the Imperial Palace. Numerous taxidermy specimens of animals that are either extinct or threatened with extinction make the collection all the more valuable.

Known as the "castle of dreams", the Hermesvilla is a palace noted for its art and natural setting, and is used by the Vienna Museum for special exhibitions on cultural history.

The villa took its name from the statue of "Hermes as Guardian" standing in the garden.

Don't miss the empress’s bedroom with huge royal bed with murals depict motifs from Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"