44 of the best · Vienna, Austria
The State Opera, the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus, the Burgtheater, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Klimt at the Belvedere, Schiele at the Leopold and the Viennale.
Our 44 favourites, listed A–Z · Updated October 2026
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On the Ring
Opera and ballet on almost every night of the season, in the house on the Ring.
Opernring 2, 1010 WienExplore View on map
The Golden Hall
The gilded Great Hall, home of the Vienna Philharmonic.
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 WienExplore View on map
The Habsburg collections
Bruegel, Velázquez and Vermeer, and the Habsburg Kunstkammer, under a marble staircase and dome.
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The back story
A synth-pop ballad with a viola solo, a video shot in Vienna and London, and the most famous No. 2 in British chart history.
The back story
An opera house, two great concert halls, the old masters, Klimt and Schiele, and a city that still dresses for the opera.
Visual arts
Great collections.
Design and the Wiener Werkstätte
Design, furniture and the Wiener Werkstätte under an arcaded hall on the Stubenring.
Under the cupola
Meteorites, dinosaurs and the Venus of Willendorf, opposite the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
The old masters, Klimt, Schiele and the moderns.
On the Schillerplatz
The art academy on the Schillerplatz, with its own picture gallery and exhibitions.
On the bastion
Graphic art and modern masters in a Habsburg palace on the old bastion behind the State Opera.
Klimt’s The Kiss
Two baroque palaces and their gardens, with Klimt’s The Kiss in the Upper Belvedere.
Contemporary art
Contemporary art exhibitions in the MuseumsQuartier.
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 WienExplore View on map
The Habsburg collections
Bruegel, Velázquez and Vermeer, and the Habsburg Kunstkammer, under a marble staircase and dome.
Schiele and Klimt
The great Schiele collection, with Klimt and the Wiener Werkstätte, in the MuseumsQuartier.
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 WienExplore View on map
In the basalt cube
Modern and contemporary art in the dark basalt building of the MuseumsQuartier.
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 WienExplore View on map
Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze
The white pavilion with the golden dome, home of Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze.
Friedrichstrasse 12, 1010 WienExplore View on map
Great buildings, old and new.
Colourful apartments
Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s colourful, uneven apartment house in Landstrasse.
Karlsplatz
The baroque church on Karlsplatz, with its green dome and two columns, reflected in the pool.
Karlsplatz 10, 1040 WienExplore View on map
The heart of the city
The Gothic cathedral at the centre of the old town, with its patterned tile roof and south tower.
Stephansplatz 3, 1010 WienExplore View on map
Christmas market in winter
The neo-Gothic city hall on the Ring, its square the scene of the Christmas market and the winter ice rink.
Concrete sculpture
A church of stacked concrete blocks on the edge of the Vienna Woods, designed by the sculptor Fritz Wotruba.
Performing arts
The Musikverein, the Konzerthaus and the Vienna Boys Choir.
Seilerstätte
An interactive museum of sound and of Vienna’s composers.
Seilerstätte 30, 1010 WienExplore View on map
Concerts and performances
Vienna’s university of music and performing arts, whose students and teachers perform across the city.
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 WienExplore View on map
The Golden Hall
The gilded Great Hall, home of the Vienna Philharmonic.
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 WienExplore View on map
Riemergasse
Vienna’s jazz and music club on the Riemergasse, with concerts most nights.
Sunday Mass and concerts
The choir sings Sunday Mass in the Hofburg Chapel and gives concerts at its own hall in the Augarten.
Three halls
Concerts from orchestral to jazz in the Konzerthaus by the Stadtpark.
Plays, musicals and the playhouses.
The great houses, and the Spanish Riding School.
The Winter Riding School
The white Lipizzaner horses in the baroque Winter Riding School of the Hofburg.
Michaelerplatz 1, 1010 WienExplore View on map
By the Naschmarkt
Opera in the historic theatre on the Linke Wienzeile, by the Naschmarkt.
On the Ring
Opera and ballet on almost every night of the season, in the house on the Ring.
Opernring 2, 1010 WienExplore View on map
Operetta and musicals
Operetta, opera, musicals and ballet in Vienna’s second opera house.
Cinemas and film.
Films in original versions
A cinema on the Ring showing films in their original versions.
Opernring 19, 1010 WienExplore View on map
Since 1960
A single-screen cinema of 1960 on the Parkring, a main venue of the Viennale.
Parkring 12, 1010 WienExplore View on map
In the Albertina building
Austria’s film museum and cinematheque, with screenings in the Albertina building.
Währinger Strasse
An arthouse cinema by the Votivkirche.
Währinger Strasse 12, 1090 WienExplore View on map
Writers, libraries and bookshops.
A baroque hall
The baroque State Hall of the National Library, in the Hofburg.
Folk & cultural traditions
Traditional crafts and the people who keep them.
Porcelain from Vienna
Porcelain made in Vienna, with its manufactory in the Augarten.
Viennese glass
The Viennese glassmakers’ store on the Kärntner Strasse.
Kärntner Strasse 26, 1010 WienExplore View on map
Graben 13
The gentlemen’s tailor on the Graben, with a shopfront and interior by Adolf Loos.
Graben 13, 1010 WienExplore View on map
Since 1903
Hats made in Vienna since 1903, in the milliner’s own words, with a shop on Neubaugasse.
Neubaugasse 34, 1070 WienExplore View on map
The cultural calendar.
3 July – 5 September 2027
Concert and opera films on a big screen in front of the Rathaus, with food stalls, every summer evening.
8 July – 8 August 2027
The Vienna International Dance Festival, founded in 1984, with performances and workshops each summer.
Thursday 4 February 2027
The high point of the ball season, when the State Opera’s auditorium becomes a ballroom.
22 October – 3 November 2026
Vienna’s international film festival, in the city’s cinemas each autumn.
