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 permanent exhibition, free since the December 2023 reopening, traces Vienna from the Neolithic through the Roman camp of Vindobona to the present. The former atrium, now the great hall, displays some of the largest objects in the collection of over a million items.
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