Vienna - brief description and tourist attractions

Vienna - tourist attractions

	Schönbrunn Palace
	St. Charles's Church in Vienna	The St. Charles's Church (German: Karlskirche) is a church situated on the south side of Karlsplatz, Vienna. It is located on the edge of the 1st district, 200 metres outside the Ringstraße. It is one of the most outstanding baroque church structures, and boasts a dome in the form of an elongated el...
	Spittelau Waste Incinerator Plant	Spittelau Waste Incinerator Plant is a thermal plant for waste treatment in the city of Vienna, which was completed in 1971. It was redesigned by the great architect and artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser after it was destroyed by fire in 1987. Located in the northern part of the city near a Danub...
	Museumsquartier	The MuseumsQuartioer (MQ) is home to a range of installations from large art museums like the Leopold Museum and the MUMOK (Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna) to contemporary exhibition spaces like the Kunsthalle Wien and festivals like the Wiener Festwochen, an annual summer event that ...
	MUMOK	MUMOK is the abbreviation of "MUseum MOderner Kunst" (English: Museum of Modern Art) Foundation Ludwig Vienna. It is located in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria. The museum has a collection of 7,000 modern and contemporary art works, including major works from Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Jose...
	Architekturzentrum Wien	The Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) is a museum in Vienna, in the Museumsquartier. It is conceived as a centre for exhibitions, events and research into architecture and related topics, particularly the architecture and urban design of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is the national architecture mus...
	Leopold Museum	The Leopold Museum, housed in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria, is home to one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art, featuring artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl. It contains the world's largest Egon Schiele Collection. The more than 5,0...
	Kunsthalle Wien	The Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna is a non-collecting art centre which organizes and hosts temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. It opened in 1992, and was originally located on Karlsplatz, in a container-shaped building designed as a temporary site by the Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz. In ...
	Secession hall in Viena	The Secession building (German: Wiener Secessionsgebäude) is an exhibition hall built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich as an architectural manifesto for the Vienna Secession, located in Vienna, Austria. Secession refers to the seceding of a group of rebel artists from the long-established fine art i...
	Wurstelprater	The Wurstelprater is an amusement park and section of the Wiener Prater, a park located in the second district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt. This institution dates back to the time of the Austro-Hungarian empire, when Emperor Josef II made the Prater (which has been serving as Imperial hunting ground un...