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Austria today offers some of the world's most important and stunning collections. To tour the countless museums and galleries is to pass from Old Masters to contemporary art.

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    Leopold Museum, Vienna © Oesterreich Werbung, Bartl

    Leopold Museum - Vienna

    The Leopold Museum in the Viennese MuseumsQuartier presents Austrian paintings of the 19th and 20th century, including the world’s biggest Schiele collection in its spacious, light-flooded rooms.

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    Albertina, Vienna © WienTourismus, Lois Lammerhuber

    Albertina - Vienna

    The Albertina accommodates one of the largest and most precious graphic art collections in the world. Today, it comprises nearly 50,000 drawings and one million prints dating from all major epochs: from Late Gothic to contemporary art.

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    Museum of Fine Arts © Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie

    Museum of Fine Arts - Vienna

    Thanks to the acquisitions by and the patronage of the House of Habsburg, the Museum of fine Arts in Vienna has an unrivalled collection of old masters, including a vast selection of works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

    Work of the Masters
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    The Secession, Vienna © Österreich Werbung / Wiesenhofer

    The Secession - Vienna

    Today, it is one of Austria’s most photographed structures and a leading centre for contemporary art. But when it opened in 1898, the Secession - Vienna touched off a scandal.

    Scandalous and Superb
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    Belvedere Gallery, Vienna © Belvedere

    Gallery Belvedere - Vienna

    This Baroque masterpiece houses is one of Europe's most important museums, the Gallery Belvedere Vienna. In the Upper Belvedere the world's largest collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt is on display, alongside works by Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka.

    One of Vienna's Highlights
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    Museum of Modern Art © MUMOK, Lena Deinhardstein

    MUMOK Museum of Modern Art - Vienna

    Located in the gigantic black basalt cube, the MUMOK Museum of Modern Art, in the courtyard of the Viennese MuseumsQuartier, view a vast collection of major 20th century artists - from Picasso to Pollock - as well as changing contempoary exhibitions.

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    House of Sound, Vienna © Haus der Musik

    Haus der Musik - Vienna

    Haus der Musik - Vienna is a modern interactive experimental museum in the historic city center of Vienna, where the Vienna Philharmonic was founded. Infotainment, Edutainment and Entertainment – these are the three catchwords characterizing the Haus der Musik - Vienna, offering the visitor a lively introduction to the history of Austria’s great composers.

    The House of Sound
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    Kunsthaus Graz © Kunsthaus Graz

    Kunsthaus Graz

    The building Kunsthaus Graz, designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, has an organic shape with a skin made of iridescent blue acrylic panels. One of the most unusual museums you'll ever visit. It has become an attraction for art lovers and the culturally minded from all over the world.

    The Friendly Alien
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    Art in Salzburg © Salzburg Foundation

    Art in Salzburg

    Salzburg is not only devoted to the traditional. A lively art and culture scene with a plethora of galleries and event venues embraces the avant-garde, the unconventional and the future-oriented.

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    Museum of Modern Art in Austria © MdM, Foto: Werner Reichel

    Museum of Modern Art - Salzburg

    Salzburg's dramatic museum of modern and contemporary art, the Museum der Moderne, sits atop the sheer cliff face of the Mönchsberg, 60 meters above Salzburg’s historic old town.

    High on Art
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    Essl Collection in Austria © Ali Schafler, Essl Museum

    Essl Collection - Klosterneuburg

    Take a trip a few miles north of Vienna to visit the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg, the important collection of Austrian painting dating back to 1945. It is one of Austria's most comprehensive collections of post-war art works.

    The Collection
 
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