Weltmuseum Wien

Weltmuseum Wien
Burgring 5
1010 Wien
Austria
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About

In April 2013 the new Weltmuseum Wien was born. Previously known under the name Museum for Ethnology Vienna it houses some of the most important collections of objects, photographs and books on non-European cultures and is considered as being one of the most import anthropological museums in the world.

The origins of the museum date back to 1806 when a K.K. (Austrian-Hungarian Empire) ethnographic collection was initiated following the acquirement of a part of the “Cook Collection” (Captain Cook). Since then an ever increasing selection of anthropological material was stored in the Natural History museum in Vienna. This changed in 1876 when a Museum of Ethnology (Völkerkunde) was established in the Neue Burg. Since 2001 the museum has been part of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.

Opening times

Mon: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Wed - Sun: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm