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Category: Parks - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Landstrasser Hauptstrasse 7, Vienna 1030
This 19th century municipal park is an ideal spot to relax and enjoy a leisurely afternoon. It is laid out along the Vienna River with two bridges crossing over. It features meandering walkways and a central lake with fountains that are lit up in the evening. It is the site of many statues dedicated to the city's...
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: Best Attractions & Activities - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Schönbrunn, Vienna 1130
The world's oldest zoo and bang up-to-date today. A fantastic day out with an incredible range of animals in modern, state-of-the-art enclosures. External enclosures include a great new rhino park, and indoors you'll find a rainforest house, a desert house, aquarium, terrarium and a polarium. Good play areas for the...
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...
Category: Parks - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Burgring 1, Vienna 1010
Volksgarten, or the "People's Garden," was the city's first public garden and was established over a period of four years (1819-1823). The hallmark of the garden is the Temple of Theseus, which is matched in splendor by the illustrious rose gardens. A fountain memorial in honor of the assassinated Empress Elisabeth is...
Category: Religious Sites - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Rooseveltplatz, Vienna 1090
Franz Joseph built this French-Gothic styled votive in gratitude for his having survived an assassination attempt in 1853. It is located opposite the scene of the crime, and with its ornate spires, is a highlight in the Viennese skyline. Many of the chapels were built to honor Austrian regiments and military heroes....
Category: History Museums - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Karlsplatz, Vienna 1040
Vienna's history, from prehistory to present, is documented in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna. Displays in this multi-level structure include artifacts from Roman times, architectural fragments and stained glass windows from medieval buildings, old engravings and city plans, objects from the Wiener...
Category: Best Attractions & Activities - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Prater 90, Vienna 1020
The star of films like "The Third Man," "Before Sunrise" and "The Living Daylights," this Ferris wheel is Vienna's international icon. Built in 1897 to commemorate Kaiser Franz Josef's silver jubilee, it's no longer very big as far as big-wheels go, but it looks great and oozes charm and romance.
Category: Sightseeing - Vienna Attractions & Activities
Address: Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 234, Vienna 1110
Vienna's colossal main cemetery has more than 2.5 million graves, memorials and pantheons laid out over 600 acres. Many of Vienna's best known musicians, artists and politicians have been laid to rest here, including Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. In keeping with the Viennese affinity for stylish burials, the...
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...
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