Editing Vienna (section)

=== Museums ===
[[File:Imperial Crown Orb and Sceptre of Austria (Imperial Treasury).jpg|thumb|The Imperial Crown, Orb, and Sceptre of Austria in the Imperial Treasury.]]
The majority of [[museum]]s in Vienna are located in an area on the border of Innere Stadt and Neubau in the center of the city, from the museums inside the [[Hofburg]] to the [[MuseumsQuartier]], with the twin [[Natural History Museum, Vienna|Naturhistorisches Museum]] and [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] in between. This area is home to many museums such as:
* In and around the [[Hofburg]]:
** [[Imperial Treasury, Vienna|Imperial Treasury]]: A collection of European treasures, including the [[Imperial Regalia]] of the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] and the [[Imperial Crown of Austria]]
** Sisi Museum: Dedicated to [[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]], allowing visitors to view the imperial apartments.
** [[Weltmuseum Wien]]: An [[Anthropology|anthropological]] museum housing many [[Ethnography|ethnographic]] objects from Africa, America, Asia and Oceania, such as [[Moctezuma's headdress]].
** House of Austrian History
** [[Globe Museum]]
** [[Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages]]
** [[Austrian National Library]]
** [[Ephesos Museum]]
** [[Albertina]]: An art museum featuring approximately 65,000 [[drawing]]s and one million [[old master print]]s, with works by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Claude Monet]] and [[Albrecht Dürer]]. ''[[Young Hare]]'' by Dürer is perhaps the most well-known painting in the museum.

[[File:Vienna - View of Maria Theresien-Platz and the Kunsthistorisches Museum - 6291.jpg|thumb|[[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] on Maria-Theresien-Platz.]]

* On [[Maria-Theresien-Platz]]: Two almost identical buildings were completed in 1891 and opened by Emperor [[Franz Joseph I]].
** [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]]: an art museum featuring works from artists such as [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]], [[Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio|Caravaggio]], [[Albrecht Dürer]], [[Raphael]], [[Rembrandt]], [[Titian]] and [[Johannes Vermeer|Vermeer]]. Notable works include ''[[The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)|The (Great) Tower of Babel]]'' and ''[[The Hunters in the Snow]]'' (both by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Bruegel]])'','' 
** [[Naturhistorisches Museum]]: A natural history museum with 30 million objects in its collection, of which 100,000 are on display. A notable exhibit is the [[Venus of Willendorf]], a 25,000-year-old statue found in Austria.
[[File:Museumsquartier courtyard.jpg|thumb|The [[MuseumsQuartier]]. ]]

* In the [[MuseumsQuartier]]: The former imperial stalls were converted to a group of museums in the late 1990s and opened in 2001.
** [[Mumok|MUMOK]] (Museum of [[Modern art|Modern Art]]): A modern and [[contemporary art]] museum housing works from artists such as [[Andy Warhol]], [[Roy Lichtenstein]] and [[Pablo Picasso]].
** [[Leopold Museum]]: A collection of modern [[Culture of Austria#Visual art|Austrian art]] featuring works by [[Egon Schiele]], [[Gustav Klimt]], as well as pieces from [[Vienna Secession]], [[Wiener Moderne|Viennese Modernism]] and Austrian Expressionism.
** [[Kunsthalle Wien]]
** ''ZOOM Kindermuseum''
** [[Architekturzentrum Wien]]

The [[Österreichische Galerie Belvedere]] at the [[Belvedere, Vienna|Belvedere]] presents art from Austria from the [[Middle Ages]] through the [[Baroque]] to the early 20th century, including [[The Kiss (Klimt)|''The Kiss'']], Gustav Klimt's most famous work. It also houses the Baroque Museum with [[Franz Xaver Messerschmidt]]'s famous character heads. In 2011, Belvedere 21 (formerly 21er Haus) was reopened in its immediate vicinity as a branch of contemporary art.

[[File:The Kiss - Gustav Klimt - Google Cultural Institute.jpg|thumb|''[[The Kiss (Klimt)|The Kiss]]'' in the [[Belvedere, Vienna|Belvedere]].]]

The [[Vienna Museum]] documents the history of Vienna with a permanent presentation and temporary exhibitions and presents the memorials to Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss. Other branches of the museum include the [[Hermesvilla]] in the [[Lainzer Tiergarten]], the Vienna Clock Museum, the Roman Museum and the Prater Museum.

The former imperial summer residence at [[Schönbrunn Palace]], Vienna's most visited attraction, is set up as a museum with the palace's showrooms and the [[Imperial Carriage Museum]].

The [[Museum of Military History, Vienna|Museum of Military History]] in the [[Vienna Arsenal|Arsenal]] is the leading museum of the [[Austrian Armed Forces]] and documents the history of the [[Military history of Austria|Austrian military]] with exhibits including [[weapon]]s, [[armour]], [[tank]]s, aircraft, [[Military uniform|uniforms]], [[War flag|battle flags]], [[Military art|paintings]], [[Orders, decorations, and medals of Austria-Hungary|medals and decorations]], photographs, [[List of ships of Austria-Hungary|battleship models]] and documents.
[[File:Arsenal Heeresgeschichtliches Museum-DSC 7920w.jpg|thumb|The Museum of Military History in the Arsenal.]]

Other museums in the city include:
* [[Haus der Musik|House of Music]], a music museum in the former palace of [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen|Archduke Charles]], where [[Otto Nicolai]], founder of the [[Vienna Philharmonic]], once lived.
* ''[[Haus des Meeres]]'', a public aquarium in a [[WWII]] [[flak tower]]. 
* [[Museum of Art Fakes]]
* ''[[KunstHausWien]]''
* [[Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna|Museum of Applied Arts]]
* [[Liechtenstein Museum]]
* [[Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna)|Sigmund Freud Museum]], a museum about [[Sigmund Freud|Freud’s]] life at his old residence.
* [[Mozarthaus Vienna]]
* ''[[Third Man Museum|Dritte Mann Museum]]'', centered around the 1949 British film ''[[The Third Man]]'', set in post-World War II Vienna
* [[Liechtenstein Museum]]
* [[Jewish Museum Vienna]], founded in 1896, the oldest of its kind.
* Money Museum, owned by the [[Oesterreichische Nationalbank|Austrian National Bank]] 
* Museum of [[illusion]]s