Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Vienna's great art history museum — one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings on earth, housed in a palatial 19th-century building built to hold it.
Belvedere (Upper Belvedere)
Prince Eugene's Baroque summer palace, now home to Gustav Klimt's The Kiss and the world's largest Klimt collection, with gardens sweeping down toward the Vienna skyline.
Albertina
One of the world's greatest collections of drawings and prints — Dürer, Klimt, Picasso and Monet — inside a former Habsburg palace right behind the Opera.
Leopold Museum
The world's largest Egon Schiele collection, plus major Klimt works, inside a stark white cube at the heart of the MuseumsQuartier.
Kunst Haus Wien — Museum Hundertwasser
The world's only permanent collection of Friedensreich Hundertwasser's work, inside a building he redesigned himself — wavy floors, irregular windows and no straight lines.
Secession Building
The 1898 exhibition hall built by rebel artists including Klimt, crowned with a gilded dome of laurel leaves — still home to Klimt's Beethoven Frieze in its basement.
MAK — Museum of Applied Arts
Design, furniture and decorative arts from the Vienna Secession to contemporary work, in a grand Ferstel-designed building illuminated nightly by a James Turrell light installation.
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna — Gemäldegalerie
A compact but serious Old Master picture gallery inside Vienna's art academy — home to Hieronymus Bosch's Last Judgement triptych, plus Rubens, Rembrandt and Titian.
MUMOK — Museum Moderner Kunst
Vienna's museum of modern and contemporary art — Pop Art, Viennese Actionism and post-war abstraction, in a dark basalt cube next to the Leopold Museum.
Belvedere 21
The Belvedere's contemporary art venue — Austrian and international contemporary art, film and music in a modernist glass-and-steel pavilion originally built for Expo 58.