The permanent collection
Monet, Renoir and Picasso in calm rooms — impressionism and modernism at high quality without Paris crowds.
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The Albertina is the original palace with the permanent collection and State Rooms; Albertina Modern is a separate building near Karlsplatz devoted to Austrian art after 1945, on its own ticket.
Not necessarily. Original drawings and prints are damaged by light and rotate for limited weeks. The permanent painting collection is always on display.
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A Habsburg palace standing on the last surviving fragment of Vienna's old city wall, now one of the world's great museums of drawing and print: a million prints and sixty thousand drawings, including Dürer's famous Hare — the watercolour that became an icon, and which is rarely shown because light damages it. The first floor holds a strong permanent collection from Impressionism to modernism: Monet, Renoir, Degas, Picasso and Kandinsky. The ground and upper floors host the large temporary exhibitions that draw genuine queues in Vienna, many of them among Europe's best in their season. Don't skip the State Rooms: twenty restored chambers with their original furniture, effectively a whole palace thrown in with the ticket. And the terrace at the entrance — on top of the old bastion — looks straight across at the Opera, one of the best photo spots in central Vienna.
Monet, Renoir and Picasso in calm rooms — impressionism and modernism at high quality without Paris crowds.
Twenty restored chambers with original furnishings — less famous than the Hofburg and far less crowded.
Raised on the last of the city wall and facing the Opera — a free photo spot that needs no ticket.
Among Europe's strongest in any given season — check what's running; it may be reason enough on its own.
Albertinaplatz, Vienna