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Museums in Vienna

You can find a museum on almost every corner in Vienna. Apart from the big well-known museums Vienna boasts a variety of niche museums that range from a watch museum to a morbid museum dealing with death. Vienna boasts no fewer than 90 museums. Make sure to visit the fabulous Secession Building, designed by Josef Maria Olbrich, for its architectural beauty as well as for its contents. Check out the fabulous Art Nouveau collections, particularly the paintings of the movement’s most famous member, Gustav Klimt. The finest art museum in Vienna, if not the whole of Europe, however, is the Kunsthistorisches, which is worth a visit for its Rubens collection alone, although it also houses a stupendous collection of works by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

Before Sigmund Freud emigrated to London as a result of the Nazis taking power in Austria, he lived and practised in a tiny street called Berggasse in the ninth district of Vienna. A Sigmund Freud Museum has been opened thirty years ago and features a mixture of personal items from the famous psychoanalyst and lots of the furniture that equipped his office. In addition, a special section is dedicated to his personal life that displays photos from his family and him.