Tour Details
Duration
2.5 hours
Product Type
Tour
Venues
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Works by Brueghel & others
Photos & Highlights
- Highlights of Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Led by local art historian or scholar
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Tour Description
The immense Kunsthistorisches Museum stands alongside the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Museum as one of the great art collections in the world. In this Kunsthistorisches Museum tour, we'll join a local art historian to explore historical objects and artworks from the past seven millennia, from ancient Egypt to 20th-century Vienna Secession.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Tour with an Expert
Our visit is designed as an overview or "crash course,” with time spent in several of the major collections. One particular focus will be the picture gallery, featuring 16th and 17th-century paintings from Venice, the Netherlands, and Germany, including masters such as Titian, Vermeer, van Eyck, and Dürer. Inspired by the masterpieces hanging before us, we’ll discuss the visible differences between northern and southern European painting styles. We’ll also look at how and why the ruling Habsburgs collected certain works and will cast our imaginations outwards to reflect on the collection’s greater symbolism for imperial Austria. (Note, we discuss this topic further on our Schönbrunn Palace Tour.)
Navigating the Galleries
As an introduction to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, this walk and its route will be organically shaped by your preferences. From day to day, tour to tour, the specific course will shift according to the desires of the group and the scholarly interests of your guide—be it Greek and Roman antiquities, coins, decorative arts or large-scale paintings. Regardless of where our feet take us, we'll emerge with a deeper familiarity of the museum's rich collection and its symbolism during the centuries-long rule of the Habsburgs.
For a more focused look at the early 20th century try our Vienna Architecture Tour.
FAQ
Are museum tickets included?
Museum tickets will be automatically added to your cart during checkout. Please note: tickets are for standard admission only and do not include any special temporary exhibitions.
Museum tickets will be automatically added to your cart during checkout. Please note: tickets are for standard admission only and do not include any special temporary exhibitions.
Experts
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74 Reviews
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Alexa took us on a whirlwind tour of the Kunsthistorisches. I can't imagine trying to see this huge museum on our own. The 3 hours flew by. She was informative and very pleasant with an occasional wit. We liked her.
Sally
Reviewed on:
May 3, 2015
Clemena is witty and delightful and shared interesting insights, but we would have preferred more attention on art work (rather than overall observations about art of the time, for example). When we did the walk through the Louvre with Carolyn Rossiter, she focussed on six representative pieces, including the Louvre building itself. This was a fantastic framework for her to share a huge amount of information with us.
Gwen
Reviewed on:
Apr 6, 2015
I was expecting a museum tour with the highlights of the collection visited and explained. Instead, Clemena gave us a tour based on the emergence of individualism in portraiture. While this was of some interest, and Clemena was clearly an expert on it, we wanted to understand and appreciate the collection - not just one topic. Partway thru the tour on of the other guests requested a top ten tour and it never happened in a organized fashion. But perhaps we did see the highlights.
Stuart
Reviewed on:
Dec 13, 2014
