Have you ever wanted to visit as many museums as you can in one trip but didn’t want to pay all those entrance fees? If you find yourself in Vienna (or in other parts of Austria) on October 6th, here is your wonderful opportunity to cross that item off your bucket list. Austria’s museums are opening their doors for the “ORF-Lange Nacht der Museen,” (The Long Night of the Museums). A total of 670 museums, galleries and cultural institutions will be participating this year, with over 120 in Vienna alone. This highly-anticipated cultural event happens only for one night every year for the past 13 years. From 6:00 pm to 1:00 am, all the participating museums will be open and offer special exhibitions and activities. There will be special guided tours of collections, music, food, dance, readings and lectures by artists and many more. There are also special workshops and activities for children. All you need is one ticket (which can be purchased for 13 Euros, for students and senior citizens 11 Euros) and you can visit all the participating museums in Vienna. There is even a bus shuttle that will take you from one museum to the next (price of the shuttle ride is also included in the ticket).
Some of the participating museums in Vienna are the Kunstgarten, Palais Liechtenstein, the Police Museum and the Heldenplatz Museum. Interesting displays this year include the most expensive piece of furniture in the world, the “Badminton Cabinet” purchased for US$36.6 million and is now on display at the Liechtenstein Museum.
