Explore Vienna

Interconvention (Link: Austropa-interconvention.at/congress/esact2011) as well as Wienguide (Link: wienguide.at)
offers a series of (walking) tours around the city, e.g. Vienna in the footsteps of the third man.

Vienna in the footsteps of the third man.
Taking the trams 1, 2 or D (so-called "Ringlinien" (Link: wien.gv.at/spaziergang) you are able to explore various sights around the first district. Another possibility is taking the Vienna city bike, there are various stations for bike rental in Vienna (Link: wien.info/en/cycling/citybike).

Jogging

Parks such as the Türkenschanzpark, the Schönbrunn Palace Park, Stadtpark and the promenade of the Danube Canal are ideal for jogging and walking. Nearby recreation areas like the Prater and the Danube Island offer flat, "fast" routes to meet any training requirements. In the Lobau there are level gravel and sand paths for a longer relaxing jog. And the hiking trails in the hills of the Vienna Woods have some interesting climbs for mountain runners, too. Various routes are listed here (Link: runningcheckpoint.at/).

Arts

Albertina Palais Museum (Link: albertina.at)
It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings.
In spring 2007, one of Europe's greatest private collections of classical modern art came to the Albertina as a permanent loan from the Rita und Herbert Batliner Foundation in Liechtenstein.
The Albertina is now in a unique position to compensate for the major gaps in the Austrian state-run museums' holdings of international modern art with key works of French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, German Expressionism, Fauvism and the Russian avant-garde.
Walking distance from the Hofburg....

Leopold Museum
(Link: leopoldmuseum.org)
It is one of the most important collections of modern Austrian art in the world collected by Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold over five decades. It contains the largest Egon Schiele collection in the world, together with major works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl and Albin Egger-Lienz.
The museum shows paintings and prints by Herbert Boeckl, Hans Böhler, Anton Faistauer, Anton Kolig, Alfred Kubin, and Wilhelm Thöny. In addition, it features outstanding works from the 19th century by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich Gauermann, August von Pettenkofen, Anton Romako, Emil Jakob Schindler, and Carl Schuch, among others.
Walking distance from the Hofburg....

Walking distance from the Hofburg....

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien - Vienna Museum of Art
(Link: khm.at)
The Emperor Franz Joseph built the Kunsthistorisches Museum to house the imperial collections.
Its breath-taking treasures make it one of the most important museums in the world. Unique masterpieces by Rubens, Rembrandt, Raphael, Vermeer, Velazquez, Titian and Durer, as well as the world's largest collection of works by Pieter Bruegel the elder, make a visit to the Kunsthistorisches Museum an unforgettable experience. Walking distance from the Hofburg....

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK)
(Link: mumok.at)
As the largest Austrian museum for international modern and contemporary art, MUMOK promotes the museological integration of Austrian art and art discourse into an international context and simultaneously conveys internationality within its local environment. MUMOK communicates the social relevance of art by illustrating the changes in art perception and their causes, both historical and contemporary. With reference to the present, MUMOK participates in the socio-political discourse and opposes tendencies which challenge the freedom of art and cultural policy.

MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst -
The Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
(Link: mak.at)

Hundertwasserhaus - Hundertwasser House

(Link: hundertwasserhaus.com)

Hundertwasser House is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The house was built between 1983 and 1986 by architects Univ.-Prof. Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan.
It features undulating floors ("an uneven floor is a divine melody to the feet"), a roof covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows. Hundertwasser took no payment for the design of the house, declaring that it was worth it, to prevent something ugly from going up in its place.
Within the house there are 52 apartments, four offices, 16 private terraces and three communal terraces, and a total of 250 trees and bushes. The Hundertwasser House is one of Vienna's most visited buildings and has become part of Austria's cultural heritage.

Vienna Hofburg (Link: hofburg-wien.at)

Until 1918 the extensive palatial complex at the heart of Vienna was the political centre of the monarchy. Today it fulfils the same role for the democratic Republic of Austria. The rooms where once Emperor Joseph II drew up his revolutionary programme of reforms, where the Congress of Vienna met and danced and where Emperor Franz Joseph held audiences, now house the offices of the Federal President, the ministers of the chancellor's office and the secretaries of state.

The Vienna Hofburg is a must for anybody wanting to explore the world of the Habsburgs. A single ticket opens the doors to three fascinating locations of Austria's imperial heritage:

In the Imperial Silver Collection magnificent dining services, centrepieces measuring up to 30 metres in length and exquisite napery give an impression of the lavish pomp of imperial banquets.

The Sisi Museum conveys a complex piture of Empress Elisabeth with numerous, partly very personal objects on display which afford fascinating insights into the official and private worlds of this unique woman. Here as in no other place the legend of Sisi becomes tangible, with this imaginatively designed display shedding light in the mystery surrounding the personality of this fascinating woman.

Visitors to the Imperial Apartments will gain an insight into the world of Austria's most illustrious imperial couple. The nineteen rooms in the apartments occupied by Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Elisabeth, comprising studies, residential suites and reception rooms, are all furnished and decorated to the highest standards of historical authenticity, and in their comparative restraint form a fascinating contrast to the exuberant splendor of imperial summer residence at Schönbrunn.

The Spanish Riding School in Vienna is the only institution in the world which has practiced for over 430 years and continues to cultivate classical equitation in the Renaissance tradition of the haute école.
The objective of classical equitation is to study the way the horse naturally moves and to cultivate the highest levels of haute école elegance the horse is capable of through systematic training.
The result creates an unparalleled harmony between rider and horse, as only Vienna's Spanish Riding School achieves.

Schloss Schönbrunn – Schönbrunn Palace

(Link: schoenbrunn.at)

Schönbrunn Palace together with its ancillary buildings and extensive park is by virtue of its long and colourful history one of the most important cultural monuments in Austria. Scheduled as a listed monument, the whole ensemble, including the palace, the park with its numerous architectural features, fountains and statues and not least the zoo – the oldest of its kind in the world – was placed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1996.
Take the Metro U4 to "Schönbrunn" (for the zoo, "Hietzing" is closer)

Schloss Belvedere – Belvedere Castle
(Link: www.belvedere.at)

The Belvedere, the palace at the heart of Vienna, was once the Baroque summer residence of the renowned general and art connoisseur Prince Eugene. In the Upper Belvedere there is the world's largest Klimt collection with the famous golden pictures The Kiss and Judith. With their wealth of gold and ornament, these pictures are classic examples of Viennese Art Nouveau and a "must" for Klimt fans the world over. At Prince Eugene's Lower Belvedere and orangery, the museum stages superb temporary exhibitions with artworks from all over the world. Here you can also discover Prince Eugene's staterooms: for example the Hall of Grotesques and the sumptuous Golden Room.

Getting there...
Tram D, to stop Schloss Belvedere
Tram 18, 0, to stop Südbahnhof
Underground U1, to stop Südtirolerplatz

The Military History Museum, one of the most important history museums in the world, was built according to plans of Ludwig Foerster and Theophil Hansen from 1850 to 1856 and was thus the first Viennese museum. The styles of this town's oldest historic building range from Byzantine, Hispano-Moorish to Neo-Gothic.
In five major sections the museum shows the history of the Habsburg empire from the end of the 16th century until 1918 and Austria's fate after the dissolution of the monarchy up to the year 1945.

Music

Staatsoper – State Opera
(Link: wiener-staatsoper.at)
Classical and modern operas

Musikverein

(Link: musikverein.at)
Classical and modern concerts

Volksoper
(Link: volksoper.at)
Operas, operettas and musicals

Konzerthaus
(Link: konzerthaus.at)
Classical and modern concerts