Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

The collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are amongst the most important and spectacular in the world. Many of the treasures were assembled by the Habsburgs, for centuries enthusiastic patrons and collectors. The 16th century Kunst- und Wunderkammer (art and treasure chambers) of Archduke Ferdinand and of Emperor Rudolph II, together with the Baroque collections of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, form the nucleus of the Museum's magnificent collections. Here the taste and artistic preferences of these and other connoisseurs of the Imperial Family are still discernible today, thus conveying a sense of the Imperial glory of the art-loving Habsburg dynasty.

The Museums collections, some of which are housed in the Hofburg and the Schönbrunn Palace, range from Ancient Egyptian and Greek and Roman Antiquities to the collections of medieval art and the splendid Renaissance and Baroque collections.