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Discover the Art Nouveau designs that weave through Vienna’s architecture with a 3-hour tour of the city’s turn-of-the-century metro stations and buildings. Learn about the origins of iconic landmarks and the architects that created them; stroll from the pavilion at Karlsplatz to the historic Stadtpark station and Kettenbrücke station. Pause to take in the gilded dome of the Secession building, and learn the design philosophy behind a pair of apartment houses. Finish your walking tour by visiting two final stations, including a gem-like royal station built just for the Emperor.

Experience the best of Vienna with our Schönbrunn Palace package! Enjoy a mouth-watering 2-course meal featuring traditional Viennese dishes, Wiener Schnitzel from pork, or a vegetarian option as well as a apple strudel at our convenient on-site restaurant. Then, step back in time and explore the palace's fascinating history and architecture with an audio-guided tour that takes you through private chambers, State Apartments, and the chambers of Maria Theresa. With the entrance to the palace located right from the restaurant, you'll get to enjoy two amazing experiences in one easy-to-plan day. Indulge in a unique, unforgettable journey that combines local cuisine, rich history, and convenience with our Schönbrunn Palace package."

Vienna’s Leopold Museum is home to one of Europe’s great collections of 20th-century art, but its vast size can be daunting. With this guided tour, focus on the most important works of modern Austrian art by masters like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and other Viennese Art Nouveau greats. Learn about their significance from your art historian guide and get an overview of the museum in just a few hours.

Discover the extensive art collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna with this private guided tour. The Kunsthistorisches Museum is the city’s foremost art history museum and features masterpieces by acclaimed artists including Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Caravaggio. Learn about the museum’s most celebrated paintings and sculptures by renowned masters, as well as its collections of ancient Greek and Egyptian art, from your guide as you visit. This tour has a maximum of five participants.

Devote a day to ‘The Sound of Music’ on this private, customizable 8-hour tour from Salzburg. Traveling by private minivan, trace the footsteps of Maria and the Von Trapps to one location after another, stopping for lunch (own expense) on route. Tour the ‘Do Re Mi’ scenes in Salzburg, see the famous gazebo, Mondsee, and ‘The Hills are Alive’ meadow, and absorb the Alpine scenery. Price is per vehicle, with hotel pickup and drop-off included.

Fall into the worlds of Freud, Mozart, Beethoven, and other historical icons on a gamified self-navigated sightseeing tour around Vienna. Using your phone, you’ll follow clues to St. Stephen's Cathedral, Hofburg Palace, and some overlooked landmarks around the city. As the game is done at your own pace and can be paused at any time, you’re free to spend as much time as you like at each location.

With ornate architecture and a royal history, Esterházy Palace is a fascinating place to explore the life and work of Joseph Haydn, once a composer-in-residence at the 18th-century court. Visit the palace at your own pace with admission and an audio guide to Esterházy’s galleries, rooms, and exhibits.

In this art tour we will go through the collections of one of the most influential museums in the world and detail selected works by Titian, Rubens, Raphael, Velázquez, Belini, as well as look at the codes of beauty depicted in ancient Greek sculpture. This tour is suitable for those who are interested in the topic of human beauty and want to experience the collection in an unconventional and engaging way. Before the tour begins, I will offer you tests so that you can record your intuitive perceptions of beauty. Some of these tests are used by scientists to reveal the evolutionary assumptions of attractiveness. Afterwards, we'll go through the collections of one of the world's finest art museums to examine together images of goddesses and courtesans, historical figures and mythical heroines. Themes & Artworks: • Titian's "Diana and Сalypso" will give us some insight into the secret of the attraction of the little foot. • Tintoretto's "Susanna in the Bath" will tell us the basic principle of attraction for the flawless skin. • Peter Paul Rubens' "The Little Fur Coat" will comment on her attitude to the Body Positivity movement. • Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi will explain the popularity of push-up bras. • We'll look at the rules of the golden ratio in Greek sculpture, Dutch painting and in plastic surgery. On this tour of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, we will not only explore masterpieces of art, we will discuss the question of whether female and male attractiveness is purely a matter of taste or whether our ideas of beauty have an evolutionary basis. And we will also find examples where fashion and the pursuit of status have played a major role.

Enjoy drive from Innsbruck with private driver. Visit Swarovski Crystal World, enjoy chamber of wonders and Crystal Clouds in Garden with audio-guided tour. Let children play in Play-tower, swirl in carousel, and get lost in green labyrinth. After visiting of museum you will get chance to make you purchase of jewelries from biggest Swarovski Shop with best most wide choice of products. You will have time to enjoy coffee or lunch in Swarovski restaurant. Children will Enjoy playing in Crystal World Playing Tower. So this experience is defensively something to do with children! You driver will pick up you at discussed time and bring back to hotel in Innsbruck. You can have lunch in magic Daniel Swarovski Restaurant with view to Crystall Clouds. This tour has no private guide inside of Museum, only audio-guide and welcoming introduction. You can enjoy you independence on tour, shopping, walking and playing without a lot of historical information and pre-defined route.

There's no artist more associated with Vienna than Gustav Klimt. Get an in-depth understanding of his work on this private tour led by an art historian guide. Start at the Belvedere Palace, with The Kiss and Judith, masterworks from Klimt's Golden Period. Continue to the Secession to see his largest work, the Beethoven Frieze, and the Leopold Museum to examine Death and Life and take a look at some landscapes.

The Leopold Museum is one of Vienna’s leading art museums and home to the world’s largest collection of Egon Schiele paintings. This single-use entrance ticket offers pre-paid entrance and unlimited access to the museum’s exhibits, so you can spend as much time as you want to admire the works of artists such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Richard Gerstl.

Open since summer 2014, Hard Rock Cafe Vienna is the first of its kind in the city. The popular American eatery has a first-in, first-to-eat policy but, luckily for you, this skip-the-line booking voucher allows you to bypass the lines and grab a sought-after table straight away. Simply show up with your voucher on the day of your booking and feast on American cuisine amid the rock music memorabilia of Parov Stelar, Richie Sambora and more.

Experience an in-depth examination of the artwork by expressionist painter Egon Schiele with this private tour of the Leopold Museum in Vienna’s Museum Quarter guided by an art historian. The Leopold Museum is home to the largest collection of the artist’s work and on this tour your guide will critically examine and interpret Schiele’s work. This tour has a maximum of five participants.

Embark on an extraordinary day trip, starting at the majestic Melk Abbey. Marvel at its Baroque grandeur . The journey then weaves through scenic roads, offering delightful stops en route to Hallstatt. Immerse yourself in the UNESCO-listed village, known for its charming lakeside setting and captivating history. As the adventure continues, we make our way to Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace. Enjoy the picturesque drive and make memorable pit stops along the way, and for there is a time for you to have a great lunch, our guide will tell you about a couple of restaurants and then you can choose ,and soaking in the natural beauty of the Austrian countryside.

Visit Vienna’s Belvedere Complex with a private, scholar guide on a 3-hour history tour of the site's gardens, palaces and world-class art museum. Enjoy the flexibility of a fully personalized tour as you explore the grounds’ tiered fountains and gardens, and spot nymphs, goddesses and heroes hidden in the lush greenery. Learn about Austria’s royal heritage in the gorgeously designed Upper and Lower Belvedere palaces, and spot Baroque flourishes in the Marble Room and Gold Cabinet. Visit the art museum’s master works, including iconic pieces by Klimt, Rodin and Monet.

Take a quick spin through Vienna in the comfort of a convertible electric car with this private tour for up to seven passengers. You'll get a quick glimpse into many of the city's highlights and get the chance to take great photos along the way from the fully open back of the vehicle.

Get more out of a trip to the Swarovski Crystal World in Wattens, and explore the museum with a private guide who has experience working for the Swarovski brand. You’ll get insider stories about the company history, and check out the highlights of the sites such as the Crystal Garden and Swarovski Turm. Extra bonus: you'll even have time to sample food and wine from the Swarovski-owned vineyards, too.

Save time waiting in ticket lines, and guarantee admission to one of Vienna's top attractions, by pre-booking your entry ticket. In the Hofburg Palace on the Ringstrasse, Weltmuseum Wien is one of the world’s leading ethnographical museums. At your own pace, explore its 14 distinct exhibition galleries, each focused on unique cultural treasures from all over the world.

The Vienna Museum of Art History's collection is the best place to see and to understand what distinguishes a brilliant artist from the wonderful and the good from the mediocre. If you want not only to walk through the museum and enjoy the works of Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Raphael and Caravaggio, but also aspire to understand what distinguishes their works from those of their less famous contemporaries, this tour is for you. In Peter Bruegel's largest world collection, we'll take a closer look at The Hunters in the Snow to understand why it was in the 20th century that this painting became the “cold distant peak of unattainable art“, and why it was a huge risk to choose such a controversial subject in the 16th century. We will look at the requirements for Rubens' work and see the difference between works made for his powerful commissioners and those created for his own pleasure. The Capture of Samson by his disciple Antonis van Dyck will make it clear to us which qualities of his work have allowed him to occupy a separate place in the history of art, at least equal to his teachers.  Vermeer's work The Allegory of The Art and Caravaggio's Madonna with the Beads will show us the most virtuoso showcase of mimesis, the main principle of Western aesthetics. And Parmigianino's works in the contrary will show us the first attempts of art to escape from the path of perfect vitality. If you wish to see outstanding art and aspire to understand what makes it great, this art tour is perfect for you.

Combine your visit to the stunning, history-filled Schoenbrunn Palace with admission tickets to a classical music concert, performed on-site in the Palace Orangery. Tour the palace at your own pace after the Palace opening hours, listening to a complimentary audio headset. Then, listen to an orchestral performance of compositions by Mozart and Strauss in the same venue where Mozart himself performed in 1786.

The Belvedere is a World Heritage Site, a Baroque jewel, and the site of the Austrian State Treaty. It is both one of the oldest museums in the world and a venue for contemporary art. The Baroque gardens of the Belvedere rank among the most beautiful in the world. The main garden is situated between the Lower and the Upper Belvedere and extends over three large terraces. Entry ticket only (no guided tour included). Visitors may proceed to the museums entrance directly and enjoy their visit individually. Exhibition Highlights The Lower Belvedere will start the year with In the Eye of the Storm, Modernism in Ukraine. Following this, Hannah Höch (1889-1978) will be honored for the first time with a retrospective in Austria. The Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo and the Finnish artist Akseli Gallen Kallela will also be exhibited in 2024.

A creative hub as well as an imperial city, Vienna is home to a burgeoning street art scene, loved by the likes of urban art legends such as Shepard Fairey and ROA. Discover where to find the most eye-catching works of graffiti on this street art tour of the city, and learn about the artworks’ political and social references for Vienna from a passionate local guide.

Listen to Mozart’s masterpieces, visit a spectacular fortress, and enjoy a scenic boat ride—all on the same trip, without having to worry about waiting in ticket lines. Instead, admission to all sights is included, so you can enjoy the ultimate hassle-free day. Start with a boat ride down the Salzach River, then ride a funicular up to Fortress Hohensalzburg, and finish the excursion with a Mozart concert.