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Every year in autumn, the Austrian capital enters into a rhythm of reaffirming its status as one of Europe’s art capitals. From September to October, Vienna’s museums open the most ambitious art projects of the year in a roughly week-long rhythm. Autumn 2025 offers a particularly rich programme – from…

From 20 February to 7 September 2025, the Lower Belvedere is showing a special exhibition ‘Gustav Klimt – Pigment and Pixel’. Strictly speaking, it is not a must-see if you are an artist with a capital letter and you want to retain the feeling that the creative process is magic…

Art = Boring? If you think that getting children interested in the treasures of art is an important task, and if you want to be involved in it at least as much as school and cartoons, then the simplest solution is taking them to a museum. However, just by picking…

Inspiration is one of the most speculative topics in art, and not just art. How to find, invent and discover something new, unique and valuable is not even a million-dollar question… How much is an iPhone patent, the rights to Yesterday or a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine formula worth? Of the three…

If you dream of becoming an art historian and you have got two hours only, then “Idols and Rivals” is the right thing for you! No, this is not an advertisement for an online course, but rather a review of this fall’s exhibition at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. The exhibition “Idols…

The works of the graphic artist and writer Alfred Kubin at the Leopold Museum seem particularly relevant in light of the new war in Europe. Even the blue-and-yellow flag flying next to the exhibition poster demonstrates not only the museum’s solidarity with Ukrainians, but also the new relevance of the…

An anniversary is always an occasion, especially after one hundred years. Klimt’s one hundred and sixtieth birthday is an occasion to take out the best drawings and demonstrate to the public that the Albertina’s collection is also of outstanding quality and quantity when it comes to this artist. Early works…

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has its own vast collection of Titian. There are so many of his paintings in this museum, that only a few of them are included in the main exhibition of the year, “Images of Women: Beauty, Love, Poetry”. As almost each work by the famous…

There is only one painting by Modigliani in Vienna’s collections. The publicly accessible work is in the collection of the Batliners. These “Sitting Nude” has been admired at the Albertina for the last 15 years without interruption now. The museum has already changed its title three times in an attempt…

Every big city like Vienna usually has several contemporary art venues which provide a place for public discussion. There are three major museums in the Austrian capital that are worth going to if you are curious to discover the current art agenda. mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien…

“Treasure” — a word most people are acquainted with before the age of voluntary museum attendance. Fairy tales and adventure novels paint a picture in which gold and gemstones (preferably in old chests), royal jewellery and richly decorated weapons are scattered in a creative mess in a cave or, at…

Collections of European art of worldwide significance The Vienna Museum of Art History is certainly one of the most important classical European art museums in the world. Popular ratings regularly place it in the “top five” or “top three” of the world’s art collections. It is worth visiting not only…

A guide for those looking for art in Vienna The Belvedere is a sumptuous Baroque ensemble consisting of two palaces and a park. This complex is preserved better than any other comparable monument of this period in Europe. If you are primarily interested in sightseeing, in two hours you will…

The Albertina Gallery is one of the top three museums in Austria. The former palace, which owes its name to Albert, Duke of Teschen, became a modern exhibition complex of 25,000 square meters after its reconstruction in the early 2000s where you always can count on seeing great art. Exhibition…

It is not hard to find interesting non-tourist places if you go on tours for locals. In Vienna a trip to a garbage factory brings you to the biggest artwork in the city, while a tour of ugly architecture provides you with a sharp background for traditional sightseeing. I’ve been…

The Austrian Film Museum is located in the same palace as one of the largest collections of graphics in the world, the palace of Archduke Albrecht von Österreich-Teschen, better known as The Albertina. The museum that shows art on a screen cannot compete in its grandeur with hundreds of square…

Gustav Klimt and his painting are one of the reasons why millions of tourists visit the Austrian capital every year. For good or bad, there isn’t just one “Klimt Museum” in Vienna, and to see the “right” Klimt, you have to go to the right museum, or even several. Because…

The exhibition at the Vienna Museum of Art History advertise an immersion in the works of two titans of the Seicento — Caravaggio and Bernini, but it gives more than it promises. Perhaps the subtitle of the exhibition “Baroque in Rome”…— describes its concept better than the main title. Since…

Albertina possesses the third of all Albrecht Dürer’s surviving works. So this part of the collection is one of the most valuable both in Albertina’ and generally in the world. The current exhibition is the third in the last fifteen years. But presenting Dürer’s works to the public is always…

The artistic legacy of Peter Bruegel the Elder — from The Big Fish Eating Small to The Hunters in the Snow — must-know for connoisseurs of the deep, puzzling and significant in art. The exhibition under the motto “Once in a lifetime” The exhibition project at the Museum of Art…