This list of museums in Vienna, Austria contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
| Name | Image | District | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Art | Features public painting gallery | |||
| Art | Features prints and drawings, graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings | |||
| Art | ||||
| Beverages | website, history and manufacture of schnapps | |||
| Architecture | Architecture and urban design of the 20th and 21st centuries, located in Museumsquartier | |||
| Biography | Life of composer Arnold Schönberg, music culture center | |||
| Art | website, history of Vienna porcelain and Augarten porcelain | |||
| Cinema | website | |||
| Art | website, located in the Schönborn Palace, traditional folk art and culture of Austria and its neighbouring countries | |||
| History | website, economy, business, trade, monetary system | |||
| Theatre | Theatre history in Austria | |||
| Art | website, Austrian art collection of Bank Austria | |||
| Biography | Memorial to composer Ludwig van Beethoven's stay in Oberdöbling in the summer of 1803, during which he composed a large part of his Eroica Symphony, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Biography | Life in and work of composer Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Biography | House where composer Ludwig van Beethoven wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Historic house | Include two Baroque palaces, museum of Austrian art from the Middle Ages to the present, gardens | |||
| Art | Austrian art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries | |||
| Technology | information, history of heating and day-to-day life in the city | |||
| Technology | information, history of chimney sweeping | |||
| Religious | Ecclesiastical artifacts and treasures | |||
| Food | Artifacts and history of the historic Imperial chocolate maker | |||
| History | Part of the Austrian National Library, relationship of man to language | |||
| Art | website, gallery for study of design, located in Museumsquartier | |||
| Art | Sacral works of art from St. Stephen's Cathedral and other churches in Vienna and Lower Austria | |||
| Fashion | website | |||
| History | Antiquities from the city of Ephesus in modern-day Turkey, located in a wing of the Hofburg Palace | |||
| Art | website, works by Ernst Fuchs | |||
| History | information, development of coats of arms and heraldry | |||
| Art | website, works by the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism and by important international artists of fantasy, surreal and visionary art | |||
| Science | Anatomy and pathology | |||
| History | website, history of torture and corporal punishment | |||
| History | Funerary customs | |||
| Art | Works by many international artists, mainly from the 1960s to today | |||
| Decorative arts | Small palace with furniture and decorative art from the Biedermeier period and a clock collection, branch of the Museum of Applied Arts | |||
| History | Part of the Austrian National Library, terrestrial and celestial globes, lunar and planet globes, and instruments related to globes (armillary spheres, planetaria, telluria) | |||
| Music | History of music | |||
| Biography | Life of composer Joseph Haydn, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Military | Austrian military history from the 16th century to 1945 | |||
| Historic house | Imperial castle remodeled by Emperor Franz Joseph I for his wife Empress Elisabeth in the late 19th century, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Multiple | Includes the Imperial Apartments, Silver Collection, Sisi Museum, Kunsthistorisches Museum's collections of arms and armour and musical instruments | |||
| Historic house | website, located in the Hofburg Palace, rooms used by Emperor Joseph II, includes museum about his wife Sisi and the Imperial Silver Collection | |||
| History | Sarcophagi and tombs of the Imperial family, located below the Capuchin Church | |||
| Decorative art | Furniture from the 18th to early 20th century, includes the Egyptian room of Empress Maria Ludovica, Biedermeier and Wiener Moderne pieces | |||
| History | Jewish history, life and religion in Austria | |||
| Biography | Life of famous waltz composer Johann Strauss II, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Art | Temporary exhibitions of contemporary international art, located in Museumsquartier | |||
| Art | Features works by Friedensreich Hundertwasser and other exhibits | |||
| Art | Includes fine art, Egyptian, Near Eastern, Ancient Greek and Roman antiquities, sculpture and decorative arts, coins | |||
| Art | website, art and project space located in the Palais Niederösterreich | |||
| Science | Astronomy | |||
| Art | Modern Austrian art including key paintings and drawings by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, located in Museumsquartier | |||
| Art | Pre-booked guided tours of significant collection of European art | |||
| Historic house | Baroque palace under restoration | |||
| Wax | ||||
| Art | Applied arts and contemporary art | |||
| Art | website, branch of MAK, exhibits of contemporary art | |||
| Numismatic | website, operated by Austria's central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank, evolution of the monetary system, banknotes, banknote designs, securities and coins | |||
| Biography | Life in and work of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Art | Modern and contemporary art works | |||
| Art | website, City of Vienna's art exhibition space | |||
| History | website, history of the 1809 Battle of Aspern-Essling during the Napoleonic Wars | |||
| Museum of Illusions | Amusement | website, exhibit featuring optical and spatial illusions | ||
| Art | Specialised on extraordinary contemporary art projects in media and public spaces | |||
| History | Social, cultural and religious life of the Jews of Vienna in the Middle Ages | |||
| Art | Forged art | |||
| Science | website | |||
| Ethnography | Ethnographic and archaeological objects from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America | |||
| Art | 21st century art | |||
| Science | website, anatomical and obstetric wax models, operated by the Medical University of Vienna | |||
| Natural history | Displays include geology, paleontology, the animal world from protozoa to insects to highly developed mammals | |||
| Art | ||||
| Commodity | website, collection of snowglobes | |||
| Art | Located in the Belvedere, masterpieces from the Middle Ages and Baroque until the 21st century | |||
| Transportation | Railway pavilion built for the Emperor and his court, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Biography | Life and work of Viennese architect Otto Wagner, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| History | Part of the Austrian National Library, exhibits of papyrus from its collections | |||
| Peace | website, street museum highlighting 150-plus peace heroes in Windows for Peace project, part of the International Network of Museums for Peace | |||
| Science | website, development of the profession and the history of the drugstore | |||
| Amusement | History of Vienna's largest amusement park, the Wurstelprater, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Art | website, contemporary art and culture gallery, located in Museumsquartier | |||
| History | website, history of the Red Vienna government of Austria from 1919 to 1934, located in the Karl Marx-Hof | |||
| History | History and culture of Ancient Rome in Vienna, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Art | Part of the Hofburg Palace, features the Kunsthistorisches Museum's collections of royal treasures and religious relics | |||
| Food | website, chocolate | |||
| Multiple | Includes the Rococo palace, gardens, museum of carriages in the Wagenburg, children's museum | |||
| Art | Benedictine monastery with major paintings, furniture, tapestries, vestments and liturgical objects and vestments | |||
| Biography | Birthplace of composer Franz Schubert, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Biography | House where composer Franz Schubert lived until his death, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Scouting | website, history of the Boy Scouts in Austria | |||
| History | Changing exhibits of contemporary art, features the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt | |||
| Biography | House, life and work of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis | |||
| Biography | Life and work of the Strauss Family Johann I, Johann II, Josef, Eduard and Johann III Strauss. | |||
| Library | 18th century Baroque library room | |||
| Science | History of science in industry, including astronomy, physics, mining, iron, steel, energy, communications and media, transportation, music | |||
| Media | website, collection of memorabilia related to the 1949 film noir The Third Man, which was filmed in Vienna in 1948 | |||
| Science | Astronomy | |||
| Horology | Clocks, operated by the Vienna Museum | |||
| Law enforcement | Wiener Kriminalmuseum website, includes the Vienna Police Department Museum, history of judicial and police system and the proceeds from crime by the late Middle Ages to the present | |||
| History | Bestattungsmuseum Wien website, information, funeral and cemetery items and customs | |||
| History | History, art and culture of the city, main location of the Vienna Museum | |||
| Science | Astronomy | |||
| Fashion | website, development of shoe-making and orthopedic shoe-making | |||
| Vienna Transport Museum Remise | Transport | website, collection of trams, buses and light rail vehicles, operated by Wiener Linien | ||
| Insight and education | Opened 26 March 2015. website Viktor E. Frankl was a neurologist and psychiatrist. | |||
| Transport | Located on the grounds of Schönbrunn Palace, carriages and horse-drawn vehicles and equipment | |||
| Decorative arts | website, designs and examples of Wiener Werkstätte furniture and decorative arts | |||
| Children's | website, located in Museumsquartier | |||