MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Ticket

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Duration

1 to 2 hours

Overview

Discover the fascinating era of “Vienna around 1900” in the grand museum building on Vienna’s Ringstraße with art nouveau masterpieces of the Wiener Werkstätte by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, or Koloman Moser. Inaugurated in 1871, the building by Heinrich von Ferstel is one of the grandest works of architecture on Vienna’s Ringstraße. Today the MAK, originally founded as the “Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry”, accommodates a unique collection of precious art and craftwork from the fields of furniture, glass, porcelain, silver, and textiles from the middle ages to today. With more than 900.000 objects and printed works it is one of the most important museums of its kind in the world. In addition, the MAK presents top-class temporary exhibitions in the fields of art, design and architecture.