The Belvedere, the Albertina, the Leopold Museum... If these museums are among the must-sees in Vienna, it is to forget that, among the hundred that make up the Austrian capital, others are worth the detour.
More discreet and less frequented, they surprise by their theme and their route of visit.
The Vienna City Card offers free or reduced admission to some of these museums as well as free access to public transport.
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The Globe Museum
Inseparable from travel and great discoveries, the globe is at the center of the Globenmuseum, attached to the Austrian National Library.
History, uses, manufacturing techniques... You will know everything about this cartographic object, an essential tool for geographers and astronomers.
Terrestrial or celestial, printed or in relief, nearly 250 of them are on display to the public among the 750 in the museum's collection, the oldest of which dates from 1536. The entrance ticket also gives access to the museum of Esperanto located in the same building and which is interested, beyond simple Esperanto, in "constructed languages" such as Klingon from the
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Globenmuseum, Mollard Palace, Herrengasse 9, 1010 Vienna.
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: +43 1 534 10 710. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (closed at 9 p.m. on Thursday).
Entry at full price: €5 (also gives access to the Esperanto Museum).
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The Funeral Museum
The Funeral Museum is located in Vienna's central cemetery.
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No wonder the Funeral Museum (Bestattungsmuseum) takes place... in a cemetery.
And not just any: the central cemetery of Vienna, one of the largest in Europe, where Beethoven, Franz Schubert and the singer Falco, nicknamed the "first white rapper", are buried.
At the entrance to the 300 m² museum, housed in the former “infectious” morgue, the visitor is greeted by two models wearing undertaker's clothes, then he criss-crosses a route dotted with coffins, hearses and death masks.
If the exhibition voluntarily plays the card of black humor and plays down death, it does not forget to seriously retrace the different stages of a funeral ceremony, from death to remembrance, including burial,
Bestattungsmuseum, Simmeringer Hauptstr.
234, 1110 Vienna.
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: +43 01 760 67. Open Monday to Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Entry at full price: €7.
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The Crime Museum
Portraits, press articles, police archives... Immerse yourself in the dark side of Vienna!
Anne Seyrl - Wiener Kriminalmuseum
If Vienna is today known to be one of the most pleasant and safest cities in the world, it was not always so.
To be convinced of this, just visit the Crime Museum, which presents the history of crime in Austria from the Middle Ages to today.
It is located in an old building dating from 1685 which housed between 1899 and 1939 the museum of the Imperial and Royal Police of Vienna.
From the penal system in medieval times to the most recent criminal cases, passing through the assassination attempts of the imperial family, the dark side of Vienna will have no more secrets for you!
Wiener Kriminalmuseum, Große Sperlgasse 24, 1020 Vienna.
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: + 43 664 300 56 77. Open Thursday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (every day during school holidays).
Entry at full price: €9.90.
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The Virgil chapel
The Virgil Chapel is inside the Stephansplatz metro station, below the famous St. Stephen's Cathedral.
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Among the thousands of passengers who pass through the Stephansplatz metro station, located in the heart of Vienna, every day, many are unaware that it houses an eight-century-old chapel.
It was even in 1973, during the construction of the metro, that the Virgil chapel (Virgilkapelle) which dates from 1230 was discovered.
The building below the famous St. Stephen's Cathedral has the best preserved Gothic interior in Vienna.
On the occasion of its reopening in 2015 after major restoration work, the site was equipped with a rather quick museum route to follow (allow less than 30 minutes) retracing the origins of Vienna from the Roman Empire to in the sixteenth century.
Virgilkapelle, Stephansplatz (metro station), 1010 Vienna.
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: +43 664 882 93 930. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Entry at full price: €5.
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The Viktor Frankl Museum
An interactive tour laid out in the apartment where the philosopher Viktor Frankl lived familiarizes us with the concept of logotherapy.
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Representative of the third Viennese school of psychotherapy after that of Sigmund Freud (who also has his museum in Vienna) and Alfred Adler, Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) is the founder of logotherapy (therapy centered on meaning) and of existential analysis.
In the privacy of the small apartment where he lived for nearly 50 years after escaping the Nazi camps, the museum offers a fun and interactive tour that invites you to ask questions about the meaning of life.
To better understand the theme, which is not necessarily very accessible, take a guided tour.
Viktor Frankl Museum, Mariannengasse 1/15, 1090 Vienna.
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: +43 699 109 610 68. Open Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Entry at full price: €8.