Placed in the center of Vienna, right in Ringstrasse, this Museum of Natural History is the twin brother of the Kuntshistorisches Museum, which you’ll find right across the street from it. This was deliberately organized by the then Emperor of Austria who decided that his vast Natural History and Art collections deserved their own grand museum. It was integrated in the City center’s landscape, populated with grand Romantic architecture. It’s been called a Museum of a Museum because it still features the original side decoration, after a very careful preservation movement. The collections range from precious stones and minerals, dinosaur fossils – including full skeletons, pre-historic art works and a grand collection of preserved animals and insects. It also serves as a cultural museum, showing how people lived at the time of its founding, and it also features a very interesting collection of taxidermy instruments, many if not all of them used to preserve its animals and insects.
Getting to the Museum is very easy, as it’s located right in the historical center of the town and close to several landmarks like the National Library, the Parliament Building and the People’s Gardens (Volksgarten). Getting to Vienna itself is also as easy as pie, as flights to Vienna are increasingly cheap and popular.
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