Kunsthistorisches Museum, newly constructed museum building in the Vienna Ringstraße, was ceremoniously opened in 1891. It has been designed to accomodate the vast imperial collections. Hosting one of the richest fine art collections in the world, its ground floor is largely given over to decorative arts and the ancient world, with impressive Egyptian, Greek and Roman collections, while the fine arts section upstairs offers a fine perspective on the German Renaissance.

Canvases of Danubian painters like Albrecht Altdorfer and two Lucas Cranachs providing a link between the medieval world and the perfection of Dürer, Rubens and Rembrandt. The Egyptian section is overwhelming, nowhere in Europe you will find a brightness and choice of ancient treasures like here. The collections of the Kunsthistorische Museum are amongst the most important and spectacular in the world.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and the main building. It was visited by 619.318 people in 2007.

Among the most important works in the picture gallery are Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael:Johannes Vermeer, Diego Velázquez, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, and The Tower of Babel.

The collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and Coin Cabinet.

Main Building
Maria Theresien-Platz
1010 Vienna
Tel. +43 1 525 24- 0
Fax +43 1 525 24- 4099
info@khm.at