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Natural History Museum Vienna

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

The Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) is the natural history museum on Maria-Theresien-Platz, facing the Kunsthistorisches Museum, opened in 1889.

Why go

The Natural History Museum Vienna's architecture page says the museum and the Kunsthistorisches Museum opposite were commissioned by Emperor Franz Joseph I and designed by Gottfried Semper and Carl Hasenauer with identical exteriors, that this building went up between 1871 and 1881, and that the emperor opened the museum on 10 August 1889. Its mission statement says it preserves, researches and presents collections covering biology, earth sciences, anthropology and archaeology. The permanent exhibition halls listed on its site run from minerals, gemstones and meteorites through earth history, dinosaurs, prehistory and anthropology to insects, reptiles and mammals. The museum's locations page gives the visitor entrance on Maria-Theresien-Platz and lists other sites it runs, among them the pathological-anatomical collection in the Narrenturm; this record is the main museum on Maria-Theresien-Platz only.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is Austria's federal capital and, as the City of Vienna's own administration page puts it, also one of the country's federal provinces. XTOUR maps palaces, museums and churches inside the city, among them Schönbrunn Palace, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Belvedere and St. Stephen's Cathedral; Klosterneuburg, a separate municipality in Lower Austria, is not part of the city.

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