Vienna Museum, City museum at Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
The Vienna Museum is a city museum at Karlsplatz that documents the history of Vienna through a broad collection of artworks, documents, and everyday objects. The galleries show how the city grew over centuries and how its inhabitants lived.
The museum was founded in 1887 to preserve the city's history and document its development. Since then, the collection has continuously acquired objects from different periods, from Roman findings to modern evidence of Vienna's story.
The museum displays works that tell the story of Vienna's development from medieval times to today, showing how different groups of people shaped the city. The exhibitions connect objects from different periods to reveal how people lived and coexisted here.
The museum sits next to Karlsplatz metro station and is open Tuesday through Sunday and on public holidays. The building is easy to reach on foot and offers plenty of time to explore its different sections.
The museum holds a remarkable collection of archaeological finds from the time of Roman settlement in Vienna, which reveal the history of the ancient city underground. These objects show that the city was an important Roman settlement long before the medieval town developed.
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