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Best Sights & Activities -(Science Museums)
Museum of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Univ. of Vienna
(Sights & Activities - Science Museums)
Waringerstrasse 25Vienna AT 1090 1-42-77-63401
Description:
This military institute of surgery and medicine was founded by Austrian ruler Joseph II and built in the late 18th century. He commissioned Tuscan craftsmen to create a collection of life-sized anatomical wax models as visual aids for future surgeons. Other items on display include antique medical instruments, documents, photographs, engravings, and a display case dedicated to Freud and other top Austrian psychoanalysts.
Naturhistorisches Museum (Natural History Museum)
(Sights & Activities - Science Museums)
Burgring 7Vienna 1014 0043-1-52-177-0
Description:
Vienna's Museum of Natural History is one of the world's largest natural history museums. It opened in the late 1800's and was designed to reflect the nature of the collections. The museum features a wide and varied collection of skeletons, fossils, precious stones, diamonds, meteorites, dinosaur casts and zoological exhibits. The most important pieces are a limestone fertility symbol, the "Venus of Willendorf," which is approximately 25,000 years old; and "Fanny of Galgenberg", which was found near Stratzing/Krems-Rehberg in 1988, and is one of the world's oldest sculptures, dating to approximately 32,000 BC.
Sigmund Freud Museum
(Sights & Activities - Science Museums)
Berggasse 19Vienna AT 1090 1-319-1596
Description:
Sigmund Freud lived and treated patients at this address from 1891 to 1938, when he left for London to flee from the Nazis. The museum occupies the apartment and includes many of the antiques the psychoanalyst collected during his lifetime, including all of the waiting room furniture. Glass cases contain letters, books, detailed notes and photographs, along with an audio-visual documentary about his family life narrated by his daughter, Anna, who was also a psychoanalyst.
Tobacco Museum
(Sights & Activities - Science Museums)
Mariahilfer Strasse 2Vienna AT 1070 1-526-1716
Description:
The Austrian National Tobacco Company (Austria Tabak), founded in 1784 to preserve a state tobacco monopoly, administers this quaint museum. On display are a wide variety of ornamental and carved pipes, smoking tins, snuff boxes, and cigarette packages, along with an exhibit of paintings. Examples of pipes include the ornate "Meerschaum" pipes, a short-stemmed pipe depicting Christopher Columbus reaching American shores, and Chinese opium pipes.
Uhrenmuseum der Stadt Wien (Museum of Clocks and Watches)
(Sights & Activities - Science Museums)
Schulhof 2Vienna 1010 1-533-2265
Description:
This multi-level clock and watch museum is located behind the church of the Nine Choirs of the Angels and traces the history and development of timepieces, both from a visual and a mechanical perspective. Examples of more than the 3,=000 timepieces include several astronomical clocks, a Biedermeier "Laterndl," the clock from St. Stephen's Cathedral, a temperature sensitive clock, an aviator's watch, and several novelty clocks. One of the most recent timepieces is a 1992 computer clock.
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