Best for
Fans of Schiele, Klimt and Austrian Expressionism
Time needed
1.5–2.5 hours
Worth it?
Yes — the definitive Schiele collection anywhere in the world
Skip if
Early 20th-century Expressionism isn't your thing
About Leopold Museum
The Leopold Museum opened in 2001 to house the private collection of Rudolf Leopold, an ophthalmologist who spent decades obsessively buying Austrian art — much of it, at the time, unfashionable and cheap — and ended up assembling the single most important collection of Egon Schiele's work in existence, alongside major holdings of Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl.
Schiele is the real draw: raw, angular, sexually frank portraits and self-portraits that scandalised Vienna in his own short lifetime (he died at 28, in the 1918 flu pandemic) and now anchor one of the world's great collections of Austrian Expressionism. Klimt's Death and Life hangs here too, alongside earlier Viennese Art Nouveau and Jugendstil pieces that give context to how Schiele's generation broke from what came before.
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The building itself, a limestone-clad cube by architects Ortner & Ortner, is deliberately plain — a neutral container that lets the collection do the talking, and one of four major museums clustered together in the former imperial stables complex known as the MuseumsQuartier.
What to See: Highlights
- 1The world's largest collection of Egon Schiele paintings and drawings
- 2Gustav Klimt's Death and Life
- 3Major works of Viennese Art Nouveau and Jugendstil
- 4Rotating exhibitions on Austrian Expressionism
- 5Located inside the MuseumsQuartier, easy to combine with MUMOK
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Insider Tips
Combine with MUMOK next door for a modern-art double bill in the same complex
Schiele's self-portraits are the highlight — don't rush past the smaller rooms
The MuseumsQuartier courtyard has cafés and deck-chair seating for a break
Closed Tuesdays outside summer — check before visiting
Combined tickets with MUMOK are available and worth it if doing both
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Getting There
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
Open in Google Maps →- 1U-Bahn U2 to MuseumsQuartier or U2/U3 to Volkstheater, both a short walk into the MuseumsQuartier complex.
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Should You Visit?
Visit if...
- You want to see the world's best Schiele collection
- You're interested in Viennese Art Nouveau and Expressionism
- You're already exploring the MuseumsQuartier
- You appreciate modern museum architecture as a contrast to Vienna's palaces
Skip if...
- You're not drawn to early 20th-century figurative art
- You've already covered Klimt and Schiele at the Belvedere and want variety
- You're short on time and have to choose one MuseumsQuartier museum
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More to See in Vienna
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 (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.
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.