Project Description
Description
Essentials about the National History Museum in brief
The Natural History Museum (NHM) in Vienna is one of the most important natural history museums in the world with around 30 million collection objects and is one of the largest museums in Austria. The NHM houses some world-famous and unique exhibits, such as the almost 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf, the Steller’s sea cow, which became extinct over 200 years ago, or giant dinosaur skeletons.
The collections of the National History Museum
Other highlights of the museum include the world’s largest and oldest collection of meteorite displays, the permanent anthropological exhibition on the origins and development of mankind, and the prehistoric showrooms. In addition to the exhibits in the showrooms, the relatively new Digital Planetarium, which takes visitors to the edge of the Milky Way galaxy or to Saturn’s rings with fulldome projection technology, also inspires visitors.
The building of the National History Museum
Like the opposite “mirror image” of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Naturhistorisches Museum also impresses with its imposing building, which was completed and opened in 1889. Especially the richly decorated ceiling of the entrance hall and the dome above are worth a look.
Phone
+43 1 52177 – 0
Opening hours
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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9 am – 6:30 pm | closed | 9 am – 9 pm | 9 am – 6:30 pm | 9 am – 6:30 pm | 9 am – 6:30 pm | 9 am – 6:30 pm |
Admission fees
Adults: €10.00
Concessions: €8.00
Students, Military and Civilian service staff: €5.00
Children (Ages 18 and under): free
Groups (from 15 persons): €8.00
Digital Planetarium (plus admission to the museum): €5.00
Digital Planetarium (Ages 18 and under): €3.00
For more information on discounts and annual passes, see the website.
Address
Getting there
By public transport:
U2 and U3: Stop Volkstheater
Tram lines 1, 2, 71 and D: Stop Ring/Volkstheater
Tram line 46: Stop Schmerlingplatz
Tram line 49: Stop Volkstheater
Bus lines 48A, N46 and N49: Stop Volkstheater
By car:
The nearest parking garage is Tiefgarage am Museumsquartier.
Photos: Bwag, Wien – Naturhistorisches Museum (1), CC BY-SA 4.0 / User:MatthiasKabel, NHM Vienna staircase, CC BY-SA 3.0 / Domser, Sauriersaal des NHM Wien, CC BY-SA 3.0
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English version: Machine translation by DeepL