Kunsthistorisches Museum
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The Kunsthistorisches Museum (English: "Museum of Art History"), Vienna, housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world.
Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Native name | Kunsthistorisches Museum | ||
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Established | 17 October 1891 ![]() | ||
Website | www.khm.at/en ![]() | ||
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Exterior
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Panorama von Burgtheather (left) Kunsthistorisches Museum; (right) Naturhistorisches Museum
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seen from the outset of Mariahilfer Straße
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Pallas Athene by Johannes Benk
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Allegory of painting, Edmund Hellmer, left to the Entrance
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Faust and Helena
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Armor and Psyche
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Inner courtyard
Interior
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entrance hall
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Grand cuppola at entrance
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Grand cuppola at entrance
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View of the Habsburg coat of arms in the grand cuppola
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View of the Habsburg coat of arms in the grand cuppola
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View of the monogram of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria
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View of the monogram of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria
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Medaillon with image of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria
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Medaillon with image of an Emperor ? of Austria
Grand staircase
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Grand staircase with Theseus slaying the Centaur (by Antonio Canova)
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grand staircase
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Theseus slaying the Centaur
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Lion with Habsburg coat of arms and imperial crown, grand staircase
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Ceiling of the grand staircase
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Ceiling of the grand staircase, fresco by Mihály von Munkácsy, 1888
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View from the grand staircase to hallway
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Staircase to hallway
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Gallery of the grand staircase
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Grand staircase
Hallways & Rooms
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Hallway above the grand staircase
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Hallway
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Bust of Gottfried Semper, architect of the Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Bust of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, creator of the museum
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Bust of Emperor Franz I of Austria, creator of the museum
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Decorative elements with sign of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at grand staircase
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View on the numismatic collection
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View on room VI
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View on a room with Flemish paintings
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ceiling in the Egyptian collection
Illustrations
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1894
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1896
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1896
Other
[edit]Main gallery: Paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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Christoph Amberger, Bildnis der Eheleute Ulrich und Ursula Ehinger, geb. Meuting, 1540
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Crucifixion, 1500-1501
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Juan de Flandes ?, ca. 1500, Philip I of Castile
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Bernardo Bellotto, 1758-1761, oil on canvas , 136 × 214 cm (53.5 × 84.2 in),