Vienna Trip Study Solar Daytime 10: Hundertwasserhaus, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Monday, October 29, 2018

Vienna Trip Study Solar Daytime 10: Hundertwasserhaus, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Day 10: 26, Nov 2017, Sunday:

Highlight of the solar daytime was the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

We went to Hundertwasserhaus outset matter inwards the morning

Hundertwasserhaus:

Famous equally Vienna's "nature too human-friendly" house, the strange (yet fascinating) Hundertwasserhaus is good worth a visit. Designed past times painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser, this brightly colored landmark on the corner of Löwengasse too Kegelstrasse was completed inwards 1985 too its principal occupants - unsurprisingly - are artists, intellectuals, too creative types (much similar the architect himself). Although the edifice tin entirely live on enjoyed from the outside, nosotros tin explore the nearby Kunsthaus Wien, a complex of apartments containing a terrace café too popular over to the similarly styled shopping arcade). The pattern avoids straight lines, in that place are curves galore.

This is our tram halt schottentor

This is the Hundertwasser Kunsthaus Wien, a complex of apartments designed past times him.

The Hundertwasser Village is located inwards the Kegelgasse directly across the storey house. The edifice amongst a whole forest on the roof was too designed past times Hundertwasser too was built due to the high visitor rush to the storey house. The hamlet is a small shopping center with a few souvenir shops, a cafe with a bar too some toilets in an interesting design.

village entrance here...

shopping complex...

More than 2 decades afterward quite a wood has genuinely evolved on the roof of the house. About xxx trees convey grown upward to xv meters high housing many birds. About 1,2 1000000 visitors admire Hundertwassers concepts of interior pattern every year.

After the visit, nosotros considered going to upper Belvedere. Ended upward going to the Museum Quarter too to Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Kunsthistorisches Museum:

The Kunsthistorisches Museum (English: "Museum of Art History", too oft referred to equally the "Museum of Fine Arts") is the largest art museum in the country.

Housed inwards its festive palatial edifice on Ringstraße, it is crowned amongst an octagonal dome.

It was opened some 1891 at the same fourth dimension equally the Natural History Museum, Vienna, past times Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary.

The 2 museums convey similar exteriors too seem upward each other across Maria-Theresien-Platz. Both buildings were built betwixt 1871 too 1891.

We bought the combo ticket including the Imperial treasury too entered the decorative fine art side.

Totally AWESOME!

Ivory collection is fabulous.

These are prayer nuts, used equally pendant inwards rosaries...

Our favorite Giam Bologna statues...there is no ane quest from where y'all tin sentiment these, nosotros should become all circular to taste the beauty from all angles