Kunsthistorisches Museum – Vienna

The original core of the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna derives from the properties of the Habsburg family.

The museum houses two art galleries, preserving also works realized by the great Italian masters between the sixteenth and sixteenth centuries, such as Gentile da Fabriano, Antonello da Messina, Fra Bartolomeo, Raphael, Perugino, Titian, Caravaggio, Lorenzo Lotto, Andrea Mantegna, and many others; moreover, many other paintings come from Spain and the Netherlands.

Some sections are dedicated to Western and Eastern archaeology, as well as numismatics, applied arts and book heritage.

The building that houses this great historical and artistic heritage was commissioned in 1858, along with the one intended to house the Museum of Natural History, by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Habsburg, Sissi’s husband, in order to have a proper place to preserve the large collection of works of art; the museum was officially inaugurated in 1891.

The monumental Kunsthistorisches Museum built by the will of the Habsburg emperors.

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Perugino’s masterpieces preserved here: