Old and contemporary side by side
A Gothic piece beside a contemporary work addressing the same idea.
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No, the two tickets are entirely separate although the buildings adjoin. If you plan to see both, budget for both, and remember the cathedral itself has paid sections too, such as the tower and the catacombs.
More than you would expect, because the display is not purely religious: mixing in contemporary work turns the sections towards general human questions. But if your time in Vienna is short, the Kunsthistorisches, the Belvedere and the Albertina clearly come first.
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A museum on Stephansplatz beside St Stephen's Cathedral, combining the cathedral's treasures and religious art with contemporary work in the same display. That mixing is what sets it apart. Instead of a conventional chronology, a fourteenth-century Gothic piece is shown beside a contemporary work addressing the same idea โ the body, death, holiness. The argument is that religious questions have not changed even where the form of expression has. Among its most important holdings is the fourteenth-century portrait of Duke Rudolf IV, one of the earliest individual portraits in Western European art and a turning point in how people were depicted. Textiles, liturgical vessels and manuscripts sit alongside it. The building itself was carefully renovated and the display is modern and comfortable. The location could not be better: on the same square where the cathedral stands, so you see it in the same minutes.
A Gothic piece beside a contemporary work addressing the same idea.
The fourteenth-century Rudolf IV portrait predates the individual portrait tradition.
On the same square โ it needs no separate planning.
Stephansplatz, Vienna