The Austrian Architecture Museum (Architekturzentrum Wien)
The Austrian Architecture Museum (Architekturzentrum Wien)
The Austrian Architecture Museum (Architekturzentrum Wien)
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10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Monday
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Thursday
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Sunday
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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Fiona B
Barcelona, Spain54 contributions
Sept 2020 • Solo
I really enjoyed my visit to this small but fascinating museum which explains the development of Austrian building styles since the 18th century. There are many drawings and photographs to illustrate the both the interior and exteriors of buildings.
On arrival you are presented with banners explaining the styles, one side in German the other in English. The smaller explanations are mostly in German, but this is Austria after all - and that is why we have Google translate!
The best bit for me was the many historical photographs taken over the years - I'd recommend a visit!
On arrival you are presented with banners explaining the styles, one side in German the other in English. The smaller explanations are mostly in German, but this is Austria after all - and that is why we have Google translate!
The best bit for me was the many historical photographs taken over the years - I'd recommend a visit!
Written 25 September 2020
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JRKelly93
London, UK58 contributions
Jun 2017
There is a small permanent exhibition that takes you through a history of modern Viennese and Austrian architecture. I do not believe this is worth the price. The boards of photographs are poorly laid out and there is an inconsistency in somethings being translated into English and some not. I found the temporary exhibition quite interesting regarding Assembly.
Written 12 June 2017
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path_primrose
12 contributions
Jan 2016 • Solo
I preface the review by saying I'm fairly interested in architecture and architectural history. Therefore, having looking forward to my visit I was not favorably impressed. The museum is very small: the permanent exhibition is basically one large room crammed with panels (there was no temporary exhibition when I visited). The exhibition was about the development of Austrian architecture from roughly the end of the 19th century (when Modernism began to rear its ugly head) to the 2000s, so you are not going to find anything about Palladio and Gothic Revival and the like. The information was presented clearly enough, although with the Modernist bias one can expect (the post-WWII reconstruction of the magnificent State Opera is "uncourageous", which is probably a good thing). For €7 one does expect a little more to gawk at.
Written 9 January 2016
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Travelleronwheels
United Kingdom237 contributions
May 2023 • Solo
This is a small museum in the city’s museum quarter which is well worth the visit. I feel some of the comments here are unfair and some have missed the point. There is a lot of information in this museum, displayed in both German and English. Take the time to walk through and study the exhibits and read the details and you will learn a great deal. Obviously, this is about Viennese architecture but it is also a fascinating record of social history.
Written 11 May 2023
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nhgeo1
new hampshire16 contributions
Apr 2015 • Friends
This museum offers a wide range of architectural walking tours led by well qualified docents. The museum has a very comprehensive offering in their bookstore. The walking tours cover just about every time period and aspect of Viennese architecture, and some are regularly scheduled tours. We booked one of their on-demand tours, there are a total of eight half-day and five full day on-demand tours. Our specific tour was the half-day Dawn of Modernism. Our guide, Christa Veigl, was very knowledgeable, energetic, pleasant, and spoke very good English.
Two of the many buildings that we visited were the Secession Building and the Postal Savings Bank. Not to be missed inside the Secession Building is the Beethoven Frieze by Gustave Klimt. Included in this review are some photos of the Postal Museum, my words simply can't express what this building is and represents.
One of the best of the many architectural walking tours that we've ever taken.
Two of the many buildings that we visited were the Secession Building and the Postal Savings Bank. Not to be missed inside the Secession Building is the Beethoven Frieze by Gustave Klimt. Included in this review are some photos of the Postal Museum, my words simply can't express what this building is and represents.
One of the best of the many architectural walking tours that we've ever taken.
Written 18 May 2015
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ViniAndrade
Recife, PE65 contributions
Jun 2017 • Couples
Almost all text in german, small displays, cluttered collection, in summer no arconditioner. Good projects and initiatives lost in a mess. The place needs an urgenteb revamp. I'm an engineer and designer married to an architect, if we didn't liked much, "normal" people will hate. A bad example of museum layout, a definite no go.
The work of austrian architects is impressive and deserved a better place. Need to say the staff is very friendly and polite.
The work of austrian architects is impressive and deserved a better place. Need to say the staff is very friendly and polite.
Written 24 June 2017
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SwimBikeRunWalk
Shropshire, UK409 contributions
Aug 2015 • Solo
Once I'd got my head read how the displays worked (English on one side, German on the other of the big banners) this was by far the best museum I've been to. Loads of interesting information about the architecture of Vienna and Austria over time. There are a couple of TVs with pictures on and these will take a long time to view (I had to go after 50 mins of these and hadn't got to the end.) I was surprised by the number of wineries of merit. Makes a change from the crematoria in the UK I guess!
There is a timeline around the outside of the room and it is easier to look at this separately at the end.
My caveat may be if you are not interested in architecture give it a wide berth though. But if you are you really must go but don't take along anyone who will drag you out too early :).
There is a timeline around the outside of the room and it is easier to look at this separately at the end.
My caveat may be if you are not interested in architecture give it a wide berth though. But if you are you really must go but don't take along anyone who will drag you out too early :).
Written 18 August 2015
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38th_Signal
Genève16 contributions
Jul 2015 • Solo
Unlike user Bakalarios, I did put this museum first on my list, but that's only because I'm an architecture nut :)) When I visited there were three exhibits, most of which with comprehensive English translations:
1) Of perhaps interest more limited to professionals, was the one about the aspen INTERNATIONAL competition to redesign a mixed-use-block in Vienna. While obviously professional in focus, it was still very interesting even for a non-professional like me.
2) a_schau, about Austrian architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries. If I don't agree with the aesthetics opinions on some of the eras (I like Brutalism as an idea, not sure it works so well in reality :)), each decade was very detailed and explained with several examples, well illustrated. Very interesting and well presented, if a bit crowded because the museum space is so limited itself. Very interesting to both architecture and history fans.
3) "Hitler's Vienna, Pearl of the Reich": the temporary exhibit was maybe the (surprisingly) less satisfactory of the three, and I actually find it hard to explain why I feel this way. Maybe it's the large-ish number of untranslated documents, which means a lot of them over my head, or maybe it's that I felt it was more about history than architecture? Still, worth spending some time seeing it.
A marked disappointment was the shop - hence the 4-star rating. Apart from (insanely pricey) Vitra chair models that are of limited interest and can be found everywhere, the selection was incredibly small, and the selection not in German even smaller. I do understand the space is limited (and really, given the choice, I'd add exhibition space rather than sop space anyway) but this being a museum with international appeal - and, as mentioned, the exhibits themselves offer very welcome full English translations - it really deserves to better serve non-German-speaking architecture fans.
Get rid of the Vitras, you'll have a big wall available for something less commercial and of more interest (...mind you, given that this means I saved money, maybe I should add a star instead? :))
1) Of perhaps interest more limited to professionals, was the one about the aspen INTERNATIONAL competition to redesign a mixed-use-block in Vienna. While obviously professional in focus, it was still very interesting even for a non-professional like me.
2) a_schau, about Austrian architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries. If I don't agree with the aesthetics opinions on some of the eras (I like Brutalism as an idea, not sure it works so well in reality :)), each decade was very detailed and explained with several examples, well illustrated. Very interesting and well presented, if a bit crowded because the museum space is so limited itself. Very interesting to both architecture and history fans.
3) "Hitler's Vienna, Pearl of the Reich": the temporary exhibit was maybe the (surprisingly) less satisfactory of the three, and I actually find it hard to explain why I feel this way. Maybe it's the large-ish number of untranslated documents, which means a lot of them over my head, or maybe it's that I felt it was more about history than architecture? Still, worth spending some time seeing it.
A marked disappointment was the shop - hence the 4-star rating. Apart from (insanely pricey) Vitra chair models that are of limited interest and can be found everywhere, the selection was incredibly small, and the selection not in German even smaller. I do understand the space is limited (and really, given the choice, I'd add exhibition space rather than sop space anyway) but this being a museum with international appeal - and, as mentioned, the exhibits themselves offer very welcome full English translations - it really deserves to better serve non-German-speaking architecture fans.
Get rid of the Vitras, you'll have a big wall available for something less commercial and of more interest (...mind you, given that this means I saved money, maybe I should add a star instead? :))
Written 29 July 2015
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Premysl K
8 contributions
Dec 2022 • Family
The museum deserves to be completely remodeled into a modern exhibition. Immediately! Terrible. Exposure without any invention. the exhibition itself is a museum object from the last century.
Written 27 December 2022
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marftrip
Kernersville, NC339 contributions
Sept 2018 • Solo
I was somewhat surprised at the negative reviews here, having just visited the museum yesterday. As a Historic Preservationist, I’m always interested in a city’s architectural history, and how they’ve chosen to approach historic buildings. I found this museum to be just enough-although there are clearly large amounts of research books for anyone wanting more. Not sure why anyone would say there’s not much English as almost everything in the room is in both German and English-just sometimes on opposite sides. I too really liked the history being broken into smaller sections (well described already in a recent review) with specific examples. Each section contained a fair amount of info and a short film. I left the museum having a much better grasp of how Vienna developed during the 20th century-and, in fact, visited some sites the next day. Staff was really friendly, stating it was OK to go out to the restaurant, have a drink and rest, then return. The special exhibit right now are the nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Award-quite impressive. I could easily have spent several hours between the two exhibits. The Museum produces a great booklet listing many of the architectural treasures of Vienna-by decade and architect, which I found very helpful traveling around. All in all, a very interesting museum that makes good use of its limited space. Nice toilets in the special exhibit building.
Written 21 September 2018
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