| Duration: | 3 Hour(s) - 0 Minute(s) |
| Tour Category: | City Activities |
Explore the Habsburg treasures of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Imperial Treasury with a combined entrance ticket to see the world’s most important collection of Pieter Bruegel paintings, imperial architecture, and more. Visit the magnificent Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and see imperial masterpieces by Rubens, Rembrandt, Raphael, Velázquez, Titian, and Durer, as well as the world’s most important collection of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Opening in March 2013, the Kunstkammer Vienna is a “museum within the museum,” with 20 newly-installed galleries that invite you to experience a world of beauty and wit, curiosities, and wonder.
Following the end of the Middle Ages, the emperors and archdukes of Habsburg began to collect the knowledge of the time in the form of magnificent works of art. Throughout the centuries they created a cosmos of art and beauty that is resurrected in the Kunstkammer Vienna, with 2,200 works of art telling stories of their creators, collectors, and rulers. Your ticket also allows access to the treasures of the House of Habsburg in the Imperial Treasury. See the Austrian imperial crown, magnificent German imperial crown, and the insignia of the Holy Roman Empire. Bedazzled by sparkling jewels and the largest cut emerald in the world. Last, but not least, admire superb instruments played by famous musicians and composers, and sumptuous armor and arms documenting centuries of European history in the Neue Burg; the former imperial winter palace.
