3rd Man Museum, Film museum in Wieden district, Vienna, Austria
The 3rd Man Museum is a private film museum in Wieden, Vienna, near the Naschmarkt. It occupies over 400 square metres across 16 rooms and displays about 3000 original exhibits, including scripts, cameras, posters and the zither used for the film score.
The museum documents Vienna's situation immediately after World War II, when the city was divided into four occupation zones. The film, made in 1949, reflected this divided reality and made the conditions of that time known worldwide.
The museum holds the zither on which Anton Karas composed and recorded the film score in London in 1949. It also incorporates the private Anton Karas exhibition he had installed in his Vienna garden house, with its original hanging of photographs and documents.
The museum is at Pressgasse 25 in Wieden, near the Naschmarkt. On regular opening days it can be visited from 2 to 6 pm without a tour. The collector-owner leads a monthly tour, usually on a Wednesday, in English; a guided walk through post-war Vienna is also offered, and a free audio guide is available via the Hearonymus app.
The museum owns the Elchinger gravestone, visible in all three cemetery scenes of the film; it was bought in 2023 and brought to the museum. Visitors can also see a working Ernemann VIIb projector from 1936 screening a two-minute sequence of the British version.
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