Museumsquartier station

Museumsquartier is a station on U2 of the Vienna U-Bahn. It is located in the District. It opened in 1980, using the structure of a pre-metro station opened in 1966 in the same location.
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: metro station in Vienna, Austria
  • Also known as: “Babenbergerstraße”, “Mariahilfer Straße”, and “Museumsquartier”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leopold Museum and MuseumsQuartier.

Museum
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The is a modern art museum housed in the Museumsquartier in , . It was founded in 2001 by art collector Rudolf Leopold. It 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 160 metres west of Museumsquartier station.

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The Wien is an arts and culture complex in the of , . Opened in 2001 on the site of the former imperial court stables, it combines historic Baroque buildings with contemporary museum architecture. is situated 200 metres west of Museumsquartier station.

Theater building
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The is an opera house and opera company located in , Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. is situated 600 metres east of Museumsquartier station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Naschmarkt and Sankt 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 around 1820.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

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is the fourth district of . Its north border is the Vienna river, the Prinz Eugen Straße the east and the Gürtel the south.

Museumsquartier station

Latitude
48.20271° or 48° 12′ 10″ north
Longitude
16.36122° or 16° 21′ 40″ east
Wheelchair access
yes
Operator
Wiener Linien
Network
Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region
Open location code
8FWR6936+3F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4123615290
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Wiki­data ID
Q1429067
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Museumsquartier station” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “博物館區站”
  • Czech: “Museumsquartier”
  • Dutch: “Museumsquartier”
  • Dutch: “U-Bahn-Station Museumsquartier”
  • French: “Museumsquartier”
  • Georgian: “მუზეუმსკვარტირი”
  • Georgian: “მუზეუმსკუარტირი”
  • German: “Museumsquartier”
  • German: “U-Bahn-Station Museumsquartier”
  • Hungarian: “Museumsquartier metróállomás”
  • Hungarian: “Museumsquartier”
  • Indonesian: “Museumsquartier”
  • Italian: “Museumsquartier”
  • Lombard: “Museumsquartier (metropolitana de Vienna)”
  • Lombard: “Museumsquartier”
  • Polish: “Museumsquartier”
  • Spanish: “Museumsquartier”
  • Turkish: “Museumsquartier metro istasyonu”
  • Ukrainian: “Музеумсквартір”
  • Ukrainian: “Музеумскуартір”

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