Neuebau - 7th district

Neuebau is the district that starts opposite Ringstrasse from downtown, and borders Mariahilfe to the north. It includes MuseumsQuartier, a large block with only museums and Spittelberg, the six blocks with the oldest preserved streets of Vienna.

Naturhistorisches Museum (Museum of Natural History), one of two identical museum palace, is one of the world's most important and largest museums and was built to house the huge collection of the Habsburgs. It includes the 25 000 year old Venus of Willensdorf and a skeleton of a dinosaur. The dome is 60m high.

Note the golden Mozart imitator. The museum building opened in 1889 at the same time as the Kunsthistorisches Museum, an identical museum across Maria-Theresien-Platz, where you can see the special greenery.

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History). The two museums have identical exteriors, designed by Gottfried Semper and Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer and face each other across Maria-Thereien-Platz.

Both museum buildings were built between 1872 and 1891 on Ringstrasse. Kunsthistorisches Museum was built to host the large art collections of the Habsbergs, including famous paintings.

The first sight after walking the long Mariahilfer Strasse from my hostel. The huge building is the Museum of Fine Arts.

MUSEUMSQUARTIER:

MuseumsQuartier, the 8th largest cultural area in the world, contains Baroque and modern museum buildlings. Museum of Modern Art and Leopold Musuem is within the area.

MuseumsQuartier, a large block with only museums.

The passage to MuseumsQuartier.

Museum Moderner Kunst (Museum of Modern Art).

The yellow boxes in MuseumsQuartier contain outdoor sofas.

The busy Ringstrasse that goes around the city center.

SPITTELBERG:

Spittelberg contains of six quartiers between Burggasse and Siebensterngasse and is a part of Neubau district. The area with its old smallscale houses and hilly streets is an example of how Vienna looked before it was transformed into a big city.

Spittelberggasse. The area was saved from demolision in the 1970s.

Spittelberggasse is a short pedestrian street.

Gutenberggasse.

A police station near Spittelberg.

Siebensterngasse.

Burggasse.

Ringstrasse where Spittelberg meets Innere Stadt.

Volkstheater. Founded 1889.

Palais Trautson. A baroque palace from 1712.

Ringstrasse, towards the baroque Palais Auersperg.