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Austrian Culture


hi I’m Rebecca Braden and welcome to
watchmojo.com from the country that was
the setting for the sound of music we
give you a list of cultural sites that
you can’t miss when traveling in Austria
the museum quarter is the seventh
district of the city of Vienna Austria
it is the eighth largest cultural area
in the world the museum quarter contains
baroque buildings as well as modern
architecture the mq is home to a range
of installations from large art museums
like the Leopold museum to contemporary
exhibition spaces the Archaeological
Museum Carn in tono lies in the present
village bad Deutsch Altenburg the most
important excavations from the ancient
city can be seen here the kunst
astonishes Museum in Vienna Houston is
festive palatial building on the
Ringstrasse earth crowned with an
octagonal dome is one of the premier
museums of fine arts and decorative arts
in the world the Vienna secession was
part of the highly varied secessionism
movement that is now covered by the
general term Art Nouveau
unlike other movements there is no one
style that unites the work of all
artists who are part of the Vienna
secession the secession building could
be considered the icon of the movement
above his entrance was carved the phrase
to every age its art and to art its
freedom st. paul’s abbey is a
Benedictine monastery in the village of
Santa Paul in La Venta in the Austrian
state of Carinthia the abbey possesses
one of the largest collections of art in
Europe including graphics coins sacred
art and paintings as well as an
extensive and important library of over
180 thousand books and manuscripts from
between the 5th and the 18th centuries
melk abbey is an historic Austrian
Benedictine abbey and one of the world’s
most famous monastic sites it is located
above the town of milk on a rocky
outcrop overlooking the river Danube in
the federal state of Lower Austria
adjoining the WA Cali it has the rare
distinction of surviving as an active
Benedictine monastery continuously since
its foundation
today’s impressive baroque abbey was
built between 1702 and 1736 particularly
noteworthy is the abbey church with
frescoes and the impressive library with
count
medieval manuscripts the golden roof is
a landmark in Innsbruck Austria built in
1500 it was decorated with 2657 fire
gilded copper tiles for maximilian the
first a holy roman emperor the reliefs
on the balcony show coats of arms
symbols and other figures in his life
the emperor and others used this balcony
to watch events in the square below
salzburg is most certainly a city of
music it was the home and birthplace of
wolfgang amadeus mozart and the memorial
to him at the Salzburg Mozart Square
honors the city’s most famous son
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