The courtyard loungers
Vienna's best-known free place to sit โ a social rather than touristic experience, which is exactly why to come.
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The Leopold: it holds the world's largest Egon Schiele collection plus Klimt, and gives the fullest picture of Vienna around 1900.
Yes: the courtyard is safe, open and roomy, and the ZOOM children's museum is built for young ages around hands-on play rather than looking.
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These were baroque imperial stables with room for thousands of horses, converted in 2001 into one of the world's largest cultural complexes: modern buildings in white and black stone planted inside the old wings without hiding them. What matters most to a visitor is that the complex itself is free and open to everyone. Its broad inner courtyard is furnished with big coloured plastic loungers โ repainted each season โ where students, families and travellers sit for hours without anyone asking them to buy something. In summer it fills until late; in winter it turns into a small festive market. Around the courtyard sit the museums: the Leopold for modern Austrian art and Schiele, mumok for contemporary work in a dark stone block, a children's museum, small exhibition halls and cafรฉs. You pick what interests you โ or pick nothing and just sit, which is equally accepted here.
Vienna's best-known free place to sit โ a social rather than touristic experience, which is exactly why to come.
Contemporary buildings set inside eighteenth-century stables with no attempt to hide either โ an architectural lesson in itself.
The Leopold for Austrian art, mumok for contemporary, a museum for children โ every member of a family can pick their own.
Museumsplatz, Vienna