As promised, here's a post about the museums we visited in Vienna. You already know that we went to see the imperial palaces, but there are many other interesting museums in Vienna.
First we went to the Albertina artmuseum which houses the Batliner collection, a private collection of impressionist and early 20th-century art.
Julius went straight for the Monets.
I'm not interested in blurry old paintings so I had a look around the rest of the museum. They had an exhibition of Niko Pirosmani paintings. If you—like me—have never heard of him he was a Georgian naĂŻve painter. I liked his giraffe. He had apparently heard of giraffes but never actually seen one, so this was the result:
In the basement of the museum I found this guy.
My new goal in life is to eat as many hamburgers as he must have eaten.
From Albertina we went to the Kunsthistorisches Museum. It's an impressive building. This is just a tiny part of the interior decorations.
In 1871 Emperor Franz Joseph I decided to build two museums, the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Natural History Museum, so that the Habsburgs would have somewhere to put all the stuff they had collected over the years.
And my oh my, they really did need the space. The museum has everything. Greek and Roman sculptures... Ancient Egyptian stuff...
Old paintings... lots and lots of old paintings...
Shiny things...
So many shiny things...
And gold, so much gold...
This guy was my favourite:
A bear with a golden rifle! I want one too. A golden rifle that is, not a bear.
Okay, that pretty much covers Vienna. Next stop Bratislava!
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