Kunsthistorisches Museum
— An impressive art and archaeological collection and one of the world's finest, housed in a vast, palatial building in Vienna.”
Bruegel’s The Peasant Wedding (1567)
One half of Emperor Franz-Joseph’s huge museum complex on the Maria-Theresienplatz in Vienna, the Kunsthistorisches Museum is one of the world’s most important art collections.
In addition to the artworks, the museum also features artifacts from several global civilisations. Our visit concentrated on the main palace since our time was limited.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum houses the world’s largest collection of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and this was one of the attractions for us. Dürer and Rembrandt are also particularly well represented here. Sadly though, Arcimboldo’s bizarre fruit-and-veg composite portraits appear to have been on loan elsewhere.
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Peasants and pies
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- Originally published: 30 Aug 2009 in Walking
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