Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 3 floors · 40+ rooms · 100+ pieces · tap any room
Don't miss Threads The Venus of Willendorf, a twenty-seven-metre Diplodocus, Maria Theresa's gemstone bouquet and a hall of meteorites: the emperors' natural history collections, hall by hall, at your own pace.
Floors 3 Deck 50 1 rooms 2 Animals, from corals to mammals 19 rooms 1 Minerals, meteorites, dinosaurs and prehistory 20 rooms Threads The Naturhistorisches Museum in an Hour Maria Theresa's gemstone bouquet, the iron that started the meteorite collection, rocks from Mars, the Diplodocus and Allosaurus, the Venus of Willendorf, Steller's sea cow and the Tasmanian tiger. 8 pieces The Great Collection in Two Hours Downstairs: giant crystals, the gem bouquet, meteorites from Mars and the Moon, the dinosaurs, both Venus figurines and Hallstatt's salt miners. Upstairs: glass sea creatures, the coelacanth, gharials, penguins and the rare and vanished animals of the mammal halls. 24 pieces From an Emperor's Cabinet to a Museum How a Habsburg collection became a museum: Franz Stephan's iron from the sky and his planetary machine, Maria Theresa's bouquet, an emperor's fossil fish, Carnegie's Diplodocus, a rhino meant for Schönbrunn and a bison calf from its zoo. 10 pieces A Family Trail: Giants, Teeth and Ice Age Children For families: a giant crystal, a piece of the Moon, dinosaurs and a turtle as long as a car, the Venus of Willendorf, a cave lion, a giant spider crab, a shark, penguins, the aye-aye and a lost sea giant. 14 pieces P A Palace for Nature: Darwin, Canon and Helios Sixteen million bricks, a ceiling whose painter died before it arrived, a director who planned his family flat and never lived in it, and Darwin hidden in plain sight under the dome. 8 pieces An independent audio guide by Roamer, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. Museum admission is separate.