Tourism, Culture, and Performance
(Focus on Vienna)

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• Austrian Cultural Forum
  11 East 52nd Street
  New York, NY 10022
  / FAX
  Newsletter: Austria Kultur


• Information from the US Embassy:
  A portal site for almost everything about Austria

Tourism

• Austrian National Tourist Office: travel information
• Austrian Maps online
• About Austria: travel guide
• TourMyCountry: guide "with a local twist" (an anti-guide)
  
• Planet Vienna: Vienna Trivia and History
• Wien International travel guide
• Vienna City Info: maps, public transportation, etc.
• Wien-Konkret: Parallel to City-Search


• Universal Currency Converter

Museums

• Virtual Museum Page, Austria: comprehensive listing


• Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien: the Old Masters Collection, iincludes several other museums
• Albertina: prints, including D?rer
• Austrian National Library: music instruments, armor, globes, and esperanto museums
• MAK - ?sterreichisches Museum f?r angewandte Kunst


• Schloss Belvedere: Klimt and 20th-century art
• Schloss Sch?nbrunn
• Palais Liechtenstein Museum


• Vienna Film Museum
• Wien Museum: Museum of the City of VIenna, and Satiillites, including art and artifacts from all eras


• MuseumsQuartier Wien: includes Leopold Museum (Klimt and Schiele collections), Kunsthalle (experimental art), MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien; see also Wikipedia on the MQ


• Hundertwasserhaus: The Building and Information
• Kunst Haus Wien Museum Hundertwasser


• Theatermuseum ?sterreichs
• J?disches Museum Wien
• Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
• Funeral Museum Vienna
Verh?tungsmuseum Wien

• Neue Galerie, New York

Theaters and Music

All theaters have online ordering through the theaters; just to the west of the Opera, the state theaters have an extensive ticket office for pickups or sales (not just at the Abendkasse).
The equivalent of Ticketmaster in Vienna is Vienna Classic, which brokers tickets for most major Vienna Events and has a comprehensive events calendar in all categories.

• Musikverein: Wiener Philharmoniker (and New Year's Concerts)
• Wiener Festwochen: early summer performing arts and music festival
• Wiener Staatsoper
• Volksoper Wien: classic operetta, light opera, Broadway-style musicals
• Ronacher and Raimund Theaters: Broadway-style musicals and cabaret
• Theater an der Wien: opera
• Burgtheater: drama, with other stages, including the Akademietheater, Das Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz
• Theater in der Josefstadt: drama
• Volkstheater Wien: drama

Other

Some of Vienna's other notable attractions:

• Grinzing: winegrowing district with "Heurigen" wine-bars
• VIS: Vienna Independent Shorts Film Festival http://viennashorts.com/en.html
• The Prater, the local answer to Central Park or Golden Gate Park
• The Wurstelprater, the amusement part adjacent to the Prater
• The Riesenrad, the ferris wheel famous from The Third Man
• The Third Man Tour, ditto
• The Kahlenberg and the Donauturm, with views over the city
• The UN City Vienna
• AND the Vienna Coffee House (Meinl is the equivalent of Zabar's; Aida is Starbuck's with pastry)