Vienna Theatermuseum Tours and Tickets

Pay homage to Ludwig van Beethoven on a tour of the composer’s Vienna. With a private guide, you’ll follow his trail around the city, learning about his influence on the city history and seeing the sights. With an itinerary that offers a mix of curiosities and time-treasured monuments, the tour is ideal for both Beethoven fans and history lovers alike. An extended option, which includes a concert, is available online.

Are you looking for things to do in the Vienna historic center? Try our scavenger hunt through the historic center, the Innere Stadt, while discovering its churches and palaces! It will take you from Stephensdom to the Vienna State Opera, and from Michaelerplatz to the Maria Rotunda. We offer challenges at every step. Each challenge will tell you where you are going next and a bit of local history and advice.

Whether as a family celebration, bachelor party, city visit or just because Vienna "leiwand" and is always worth a new exploration - we show that the city has many faces and is home to amazing events.

We'll begin our tour with the collection's most prized possession -- The Last Judgment by Hieronymus Bosch. The modern viewer is amazed by the inferno in his famous triptych, rather than frightened. It mixes chimeras in the form of half snakes and half eggs, fear of wars and epidemics. And a great deal of the artist's personal frustrations. I invite you to look closely at the details of the painting.  Cranach's The Holy Family, as well as the obe by Jos van Klewe, will reveal the origins of the family portrait genre to us, while the religious paintings of the Quattrocento and Cinquecento art will disclose the rules of making art for religious meditation. And Rubens' The Abduction of Orifia will serve us as an example of what art for sensual pleasure should look like. The most valuable skill for an artist has long been the ability to reveal a complex subject by means of painting. This is why the gallery offers many outstanding examples of "stories" - paintings on biblical or antique subjects, such as Heinrich Füger's Death of Germanicus and Angelo Caroselli's The Suicide of Cato. Together we will try to understand the ideas behind these canvases and to feel how convincing they are for us today.