![]() As this floor is also home to eight temporary exhibition spaces, the State Rooms occasionally operate on a different opening schedule to the rest of the museum, so we recommend checking before you visit.ĭue to the light sensitivity of the print collection for which the museum is so famous, these incredible pieces of art - amongst them masterpieces by Durer, Ruben, and Klimt - are displayed in rotating exhibitions. Travel back in time to Imperial Vienna as you explore their luxurious living quarters, which are still partly decorated and furnished in their original style. On the first floor, visit the 22 State Rooms occupied by various Habsburg family members over the course of 100 years. Discover everything from French impressionism to German expressionism to the Russian avant-garde, and more, with Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Miró, and Picasso being just some of the iconic artists displayed here. The second floor is dedicated to the gallery's permanent collections, and throughout its sixteen rooms, visitors can admire some of the most important pieces of art from the past 130 years. Inside the museumĮach floor of the museum is home to a different exhibition. The museum is housed in the former palace of Duchess Maria Christina and her husband Duke Albert of Saxen-Teschen, an avid art collector after whom the gallery is named. The reading and working area is equipped with a copier with a scan function.The Albertina Museum, located in the heart of Vienna, is home to one of the world's largest and most important graphic collections, with more than 65,000 drawings and around a million old master prints. Most publications can be taken out on loan. The valuable historical inventory of largely complete journal series is continuously supplemented by existing subscriptions, granting access to recent publications. The magazine catalogue currently lists more than 3,000 national and international journal titles. The holdings include literature on the history of the collections and museums, current cultural and social anthropological topics, globalisation, museology, migration, restitution, and post-colonialism as well as exhibition and inventory catalogues of ethnological museums, lexicons, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, and historical maps. With more than 150,000 media items, it is one of the leading European specialist libraries in the field of cultural and social anthropology, especially thanks to its extensive inventory of historical works. The core of the contemporary library is formed by ethnological and ethnographic works, as well as a large number of travel reports from the holdings of today's Natural History Museum. It is particularly intended for scientific research, but is also open to anyone looking for information from the field of cultural and social anthropology. Since it was founded in 1928, what is now the Weltmuseum Wien has been affiliated with a publicly accessible library. There are accessible toilets next to the cook café & bistro on the Ground Floor, at the entrance to the gallery In the Shadow of Colonialism on the Mezzanine Floor, and in the event area. Please inform us and our visitor service will accompany you to the event area (contact via intercom terminal at the entrance to the WMW Forum and at the Ticket Office).īoth the cook café & bistro and the WMW Shop in the Hall of Columns are fully accessible via lift. Our inclusive guided tour offer takes place once a month on Tuesday at 4:30 PM, more detailed information can be found here: Events: This lighting setting was developed especially for visually impaired people together with the Austrian Association in support of the blind and visually impaired. This gives our visitors the opportunity to experience the museum before 3 pm in the regular, muted lighting and then rediscover the exhibition rooms in a brighter ambience. ![]() ![]() Wheelchairs are available free of charge (please book a day in advance at hours:Įvery first Saturday of the month, between 3 pm and 6 pm, the Bright hours lighting setting is switched on in the permanent exhibition. The special exhibition area on the Ground Floor and the galleries of the permanent exhibition on the Mezzanine Floor are also accessible without steps via lift. The main entrance of the Museum is accessible without steps by using the platform lift. ![]()
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