Natural History Museum Vienna
The Natural History Museum Vienna is one of Austria's largest museums and non-university research institutions, caring for some 30 million objects from zoology, botany, mineralogy, anthropology and prehistory. Its Neo-Renaissance building on Maria-Theresien-Platz was designed by Gottfried Semper and Carl Hasenauer, built from 1871 and opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1889 as part of the never-completed Kaiserforum. Thirty-nine halls show over 100,000 objects; the museum also runs the Pathological-Anatomical Collection in the Narrenturm.
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Now on view
9 exhibitions
Glaciers out of balance
Hallway, Level 1
Caution: High Voltage
Despite modern safety measures, electricity still poses risks. The first known fatal electrical accident on Austrian soil occurred in 1882. It involved an engineer who died because, at the time, no one believed…
Caution, high voltage!
Special exhibition at the Narrenturm
Good Collecting – Bad Collecting
On 29 April 1876 Emperor Franz Joseph I signed the legal documents establishing the Natural History Museum Vienna, and on 30 April 1876 he appointed the geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter as its first director. At that…
Good Collecting – Bad Collecting
150 Years of the Natural History Museum Vienna
GENEchangers
Decoding secrets of early medieval burial sites
The art of the moulage
Immortalised clinical pictures
Bird life
The habitats of birds
Ice Age Children and their World
The new children's hall
Locations
2 buildings- Natural History Museum ViennaBurgring 7, 1010 WienOpen in Google Maps
- Pathologic-Anatomical CollectionSpitalgasse 2, 1090 WienOpen in Google Maps
