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MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
Museum für Angewandte Kunst
The MAK was the first museum of its kind on the continent, and it was founded to improve manufacturing.
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- Museum
District guide · Vienna
Museums in Innere Stadt, Vienna — page 2
The Innere Stadt is Vienna's central district, the old town that once defined the entire city until 1850. Stephansdom cathedral, the Wiener Staatsoper, and the...
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The Innere Stadt is Vienna's central district, the old town that once defined the entire city until 1850. Stephansdom cathedral, the Wiener Staatsoper, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum stand among the major landmarks here. The district contains exceptional architecture and cultural institutions that justify a visit to its historic streets.
Checked 2026-09-04
Practical information
- Language spoken
- German
- German is Austria's official language; Croatian, Slovenian and Hungarian also have official status in some regions
- Dialling code
- +43 1
- Vienna landlines; drop the leading 0 of 01 when calling from abroad
- Currency
- Euro (€, EUR)
- Austria introduced euro banknotes and coins in 2002
- Emergency number
- 112
- One number across the country; 144 reaches an ambulance directly
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- Tap water
- Safe to drink
- Austria's national tourism authority states that tap water is drinkable in every region
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Top things to see
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08 1 hr 30 minMozarthaus Vienna
Mozarthaus Vienna, at Domgasse 5 in the Innere Stadt, is the only one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Viennese residences still standing.
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09 2 hoursHaus der Musik
The Haus der Musik is a ticketed, interactive sound museum in the Palais Erzherzog Karl on Seilerstatte, a five-minute walk from the Vienna State Opera.
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10 2 hr 30 minWeltmuseum Wien
Weltmuseum
Weltmuseum Wien occupies the Neue Burg wing of the Hofburg on Heldenplatz and holds Vienna's global ethnographic collections, assembled from Habsburg holdings and expedition material going back to the museum's founding as the Museum für Völkerkunde in 1876.
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11 1 hourVienna Künstlerhaus
Künstlerhaus Wien
The Kunstlerhaus is Vienna's oldest surviving purpose-built exhibition hall for the fine arts, standing on Karlsplatz next to the Musikverein.
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12 1 hourWinter Palace of Prince Eugene
Winterpalais
The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene (Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen) is a Baroque town palace at Himmelpfortgasse 8 in Vienna's first district, built between 1695 and 1724 as the city residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Habsburg field marshal…
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13 1 hr 30 minGlobe Museum
Globenmuseum
The Globe Museum, or Globenmuseum, is a specialist museum in Vienna devoted to globes and related cartographic instruments. Its collection brings geography, astronomy, craftsmanship, and the history of knowledge together in three-dimensional form.
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14 1 hr 30 minBezirksmuseum Innere Stadt
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15 1 hr 30 minMUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek
MUSA
MUSA is Wien Museum’s exhibition venue for contemporary art from Vienna, located beside City Hall in the Innere Stadt. Its changing presentations trace artistic developments in the city over recent decades and introduce less familiar positions alongside established work.
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