Month: November 2012
Josephinum
Supermarket of Art
Have you ever wanted to own a piece of fine art but have always been intimidated or scared that it would cost you an arm and a leg? If you’re in Vienna there’s a place open around this time of the year where you can actually shop for an artwork just like you were picking up stuff from your local grocery store, and the prices will not leave you with an empty wallet.
The Globe Museum
Food and Music to Warm the Soul
Every culture that celebrates the Yuletide season has its own special ways to do so. In Vienna there are the popular Christmas markets but there are more heartfelt event that are being established as traditions in the heart of the city. One of them is the Waermespender: Soup & Soul held in the Resselpark in Karlsplatz. The Waermespender market offers a warm and cozy kind of fun.
Schloss Neugebaude
Vienna Art Week 2012
As if having a museum virtually on every corner is not enough, Vienna steps up its cultural promotion further by holding the 8th Vienna Art Week. From November 19 to 25, the capital city takes the spotlight with a week-long calendar of activities for contemporary art experts and enthusiasts around the world. The project was an initiative of the Dorotheum and the Art Cluster Vienna and it aims to make Vienna known not only for its illustrious artistic past but for its present and future crop of creative minds.
Akademie der Bildenden Kunste
Can’t get enough of fine art in Vienna? Then visit the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts at the Ringstrasse. More than an academic institution for art where famous painters studied and honed their talents, it is also home to the Gemaldegalerie (“Painting Gallery”). The gallery which is located on the first floor of the university building is said to be Vienna’s oldest public art museum where most of the collections are on permanent display since 1877.
Heeresgeschichtliches Museum
The Museum of Military History in Vienna may not appear to most as an interesting place to spend an afternoon in, but it actually holds a collection considered to be among the most important in Austrian history and culture. Located in Arsenal, it was built in 1856 through the order of Franz Josef I and is the oldest public museum in Vienna. The building that houses the museum is in itself an architectural monument in the city, an enormous Neo-Byzantine red-brick structure that served as a fortress after the 1848 rebellion.