Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien is an art museum in , Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal dome.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art museum in Vienna, Austria
  • Also known as: “Museum of Art History” and “Vienna Art History Museum”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Maria-Theresien-Platz and Leopold Museum.

Square
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is a large public square in , Austria, that joins the Ringstraße with the Museumsquartier, a museum of modern arts located in the former Imperial Stables.

Museum
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The , housed in the Museumsquartier in , , is home to one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art, featuring artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Richard Gerstl. is situated 200 metres southwest of Kunsthistorisches Museum.

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The is an area of 9 ha in the of the city of , . is situated 210 metres west of Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Naschmarkt and Saint Ulrich.

Locality
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The is a popular fruit and vegetable market in . Located at the Wienzeile over the Wien River, it is about 1.5 kilometres long. Originally known as Aschenmarkt, it started to be called the Naschmarket around 1820.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

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is the 7th district of . Its border to the south is the popular Mariahilfer Strasse, to the west the Gürtel, and to the north Lerchenfelder Straße. The district contains many artsy places like the Museumsquartier.

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Latitude
48.20371° or 48° 12′ 13″ north
Longitude
16.36126° or 16° 21′ 41″ east
Elevation
194 metres (636 feet)
Open location code
8FWR6936+FG
Geo­Names ID
6354990
Wiki­data ID
Q95569
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Kunsthistorisches Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف تاريخ الفنون”
  • Armenian: “Արվեստի պատմության թանգարան”
  • Basque: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Belarusian: “Музей гісторыі мастацтваў”
  • Belarusian: “Музэй гісторыі мастацтва”
  • Breton: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Bulgarian: “Музей на историята на изкуството”
  • Catalan: “Museu d’Història de l’Art de Viena”
  • Catalan: “Museu dHistòria de lArt de Viena”
  • Chinese: “艺术史博物馆”
  • Croatian: “Muzej povijesti umjetnosti u Beču”
  • Czech: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Czech: “Uměleckohistorické muzeum ve Vídni”
  • Czech: “Uměleckohistorické muzeum”
  • Danish: “Kunsthistorisk Museum Wien”
  • Dutch: “Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien”
  • Dutch: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف تاريخ الفنون”
  • Esperanto: “Arthistoria Muzeo”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo de Arthistorio de Vieno”
  • Estonian: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Finnish: “Wienin taidehistoriallinen museo”
  • French: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • French: “musée d’Histoire de l’art de Vienne”
  • French: “Musée d’histoire de l’art de Vienne”
  • French: “Musée d’Histoire de l’art de Vienne”
  • Galician: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Georgian: “ვენის ხელოვნების ისტორიის მუზეუმი”
  • German: “KHM”
  • German: “KMH”
  • German: “Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien”
  • German: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Ιστορίας της Τέχνης”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון לתולדות האמנות”
  • Hungarian: “Bécsi Szépművészeti Múzeum”
  • Hungarian: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Icelandic: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Indonesian: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Italian: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Italian: “Museo della storia dell’arte”
  • Japanese: “美術史美術館”
  • Korean: “빈 미술사 박물관”
  • Latin: “Museum Historiae Artis”
  • Latvian: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Latvian: “Mākslas vēstures muzejs”
  • Lithuanian: “Meno istorijos muziejus”
  • Macedonian: “Уметничкоисториски музеј”
  • Mazanderani: “هنر تاریخ موزه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Norwegian: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਲਾ ਦੇ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਦਾ ਅਜਾਇਬਘਰ”
  • Persian: “موزه تاریخ هنر وین”
  • Persian: “موزه تاریخ هنر”
  • Polish: “KHM”
  • Polish: “Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Historii Sztuki w Wiedniu”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de História da Arte em Viena”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul de Istorie a Artei din Viena”
  • Russian: “Музей истории искусств”
  • Russian: “Художественно-исторический музей”
  • Scots: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Serbian: “Музеј историје уметности у Бечу”
  • Serbian: “Уметничко-историјски музеј у Бечу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Slovak: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Slovenian: “KHM”
  • Slovenian: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Slovenian: “Umetnostnozgodovinski muzej na Dunaju”
  • Slovenian: “Umetnostnozgodovinski muzej, Dunaj”
  • Spanish: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Historia del Arte de Viena”
  • Swedish: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์ประวัติศาสตร์ศิลปะ”
  • Turkish: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”
  • Turkish: “Viyana Sanat Tarihi Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей історії мистецтв”
  • Welsh: “Kunsthistorisches Museum”

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