The Kunsthistorisches Museum is located next to the Hofburg in the centre of Vienna. It contains the comprehensive art collections of the imperial house. Among them is, among other things, the world’s largest collection of works by Bruegel.
This history-steeped museum brings together important masterpieces of Western art history. For example, you can marvel here at Vermeer’s famous „The Art of Painting“ or Raphael’s „Madonna of the Meadow“. The Paintings Gallery also houses unique portraits of the infantas by Velázquez. But Titian, Dürer, Rembrandt and collections of antiquity, Egyptian art or Oriental studies are also represented.
There are fascinating treasures to be unearthed here. For example, in the Coin Cabinet you can admire the history of money. And in the museum library, a paradise for bookworms is hidden.
As a special attraction, the Treasury of the Habsburgs was also reopened in 2013. This is one of the most important art collections in the world, namely because it contains precious objects from every conceivable era.
In total, the Kunsthistorisches Museum comprises objects from seven millennia. Whether you are interested in the ancient Egyptians or rather in the 18th century? In any case, you will get your money’s worth at the KHM!