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Category: Science Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Goldeggasse 19, Vienna 1040
This Burial Museum offers an interesting glimpse into the Viennese obsession with funeral rituals and objects. The impressive 18th-century wrought-iron grill at the entrance depicts a crowned skeleton. Displays include a widow's mourning attire; lanterns, staffs and liveries used by 17th-century pall-bearers; a coffin with a bell in the event...
Category: Science Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Seilerstaette 30, Vienna 1010
Just how a modern museum should be, and just what the city's great musical heritage deserves: a wonderful interactive tour through sound and music. Play the waltz-dice-game in the first floor's Vienna Philharmonic Museum. Get a new perspective on sound in the second floor's Sonosphere. On leaving the third floor, have a go at being the virtual...
Museum of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Univ of Vienna
Category: Science Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Waehringerstrasse 25, Josephinum, Vienna 1090
This military institute of surgery and medicine was founded by Austrian ruler Joseph II and built in the late 18th century. He commissioned Tuscan craftsmen to create a collection of life-sized anatomical wax models as visual aids for future surgeons. Other items on display include antique medical instruments, documents, photographs, engravings,...
Category: Science Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Burgring 7, Vienna 1010
Vienna's Museum of Natural History is one of the world's largest. It opened in the late 1800s and was designed to reflect the nature of the collections. The museum features wide and varied collections of skeletons, fossils, precious stones, diamonds, meteorites, dinosaur casts and zoological exhibits. The most important pieces are a limestone...
Pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum
Category: Science Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Uni Campus, Spitalgasse 2, Vienna 1090
View body parts that have undergone pathological changes, human and animal body parts preserved in formaldehyde, body parts cast in wax or paraffin, and old and new medical devices illustrating specific diseases. Founded by Emperor Franz 1 in 1796. Also open 10am-1pm the first Saturday of the month.
Category: Science Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Berggasse 19, Vienna 1090
Sigmund Freud lived and treated patients at this address from 1891 to 1938, when he left for London to flee from the Nazis. The museum occupies the apartment and includes many of the antiques the psychoanalyst collected during his lifetime, including all of the waiting room furniture. Glass cases containing letters, books, detailed notes and...
Category: Science Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Mariahilfer Strasse 212, Vienna 1140
Films, texts and experiments illustrating technological advances through the ages. Among the permanent exhibitions you can learn about mass-production and luxury goods, heavy industry, energy, and musical instruments.
Category: Science Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Schulhof 2, Vienna 1010
This multi-level clock and watch museum is located behind the church of the Nine Choirs of the Angels and traces the history and development of timepieces, from both visual and mechanical perspectives. More than 3000 timepieces include several astronomical clocks, a Biedermeier "Laterndl," the clock from St. Stephen's Cathedral, a temperature...
Category: Science Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna 1070
Situated in the marvelous Museumsquartier, this museum has the motto "Hands on, minds on, hearts on!" The exhibits encourage children to use all their senses and learn about their world as they play. There are four areas: ZOOM's interactive Exhibition, for 6 to 12-year olds which covers sciences, art, architecture and everyday culture; ZOOM...
