Top Vienna Art Tours

Discover Vienna’s most important art and architecture with a 3-hour, small-group tour of The Belvedere’s palaces, grounds and museum. Hear stories about Austria’s princes and princesses as you explore tiered fountains and statue gardens. Learn about the design and décor of Upper and Lower Belvedere palaces, from the exquisite Marble Gallery to the over-the-top Gold Cabinet. Visit the highlights of the art museum, where iconic works by Monet, Rodin and Van Gogh are displayed alongside the world’s largest collection of Gustav Klimt paintings.

Explore Vienna’s essential sites on a private, 3.5-hour walking tour with a great orientation to the city’s public transport. Enjoy the flexibility to tailor the experience to your interests as you walk or take the underground and/or tramway from your hotel to the Belvedere Palace. Board a tram (be sure to bring the proper fare!) past the Soviet Monument, Karlsplatz, and the magnificent Viennese State Opera. Learn about the city’s most beloved historic figures while visiting historic cafés, neighborhoods, and landmarks; see the iconic spires of St Stephen’s Cathedral as you get an insider’s perspective on life in Austria’s capital city.

Travel virtually through time with our professional opera singers Daniel and Vera, and discover why Vienna is world-renowned as the city of music. This enchanting virtual Vienna city walking tour mixes stories from the lives and music of Mozart, Schubert, Lehar, and Strauss, with live performances from your guide, as you stroll the historic streets of Vienna in search of Austria’s musical treasures. Hear the secrets of the most famous opera houses in the world, from opera singers who have worked with some of the best musicians in the world. There is no better way to experience Vienna’s musical heart and soul. Please do keep in mind, that the starting time listed is always Vienna time (GMT+2).

See Vienna illuminated at night on this 3.5-hour cruise along the Danube River. Hop aboard your boat and savor a dinner of traditional Austrian dishes served buffet-style, as live Viennese music keeps the mood festive. As the sun sets over the city, soak up stunning views of the capital’s top attractions while gliding along the Danube River.

Follow in the footsteps of Maria and the von Trapp family with a 4-hour private tour of Salzburg’s Sound of Music landmarks. Sing along to the movie soundtrack as you visit film locations: stroll a grassy garden where the actors danced to ‘Do-Re-Mi,’ see the outside of the castle where the movie family lived, then peer inside the famous glass gazebo. Hear the real-life story of the von Trapps, and experience a dramatic part of Austrian history through a beloved film. No transportation between Vienna and Salzburg is included.

Make your Christmas or New Year one to remember with a classical music concert in the heart of Vienna. Taking place in St. Peter’s Church, the setting and acoustics make for a special location for an evening performance by the Classic Ensemble Vienna. Pieces of music composed by Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach, and Beethoven make up the festive evening program.

Visit Vienna’s Belvedere Complex with a private, scholar guide on a 3-hour history tour of the site's gardens, palaces and world-class art museum. Enjoy the flexibility of a fully personalized tour as you explore the grounds’ tiered fountains and gardens, and spot nymphs, goddesses and heroes hidden in the lush greenery. Learn about Austria’s royal heritage in the gorgeously designed Upper and Lower Belvedere palaces, and spot Baroque flourishes in the Marble Room and Gold Cabinet. Visit the art museum’s master works, including iconic pieces by Klimt, Rodin and Monet.

Travel through time with our professional opera singers and guides Daniel and Vera, and discover why Vienna is world-renowned as the city of music. This enchanting Vienna city walking tour mixes stories from the lives and music of Mozart, Shubert, Lehar, and Strauss, with live performances from your guides, as you stroll the historic streets of Vienna in search of Austria’s musical treasures. Enjoy an aperitif of your choice at a traditional Viennese coffee house, and hear the secrets of the most famous opera houses in the world, from opera singers who have worked with some of the best musicians in the world. There is no better way to experience Vienna’s musical heart and soul.

We are going to cruise from the 15th district to the city centre through the city park of Vienna to the most urban and cool place in the whole city! From there we will discover some new hidden spots, cruise along the Danube canal, to continue then to the hippest neighbourhoods the city has to offer! We will end the tour close to the biggest public park in Vienna with its own amusement park! Come and enjoy the best the city has to offer on the WOLRDS FIRST E-SCOOTER TOUR!

Get closer insights into the history and architecture of Belvedere Palace than would be possible alone with this private guide tour. In the company of just your party and a guide, explore the rooms of this important historical site, a masterpiece of Baroque architecture and the home of the National Art Gallery.

On this specialty-themed walking tour, you’ll learn the ins and outs of two of Austria’s most prominent arts movements. Discover Vienna’s most popular Art Nouveau and Baroque landmarks, from the 18th-century church of Karlskirche to the elegant Otto Wagner metro station. Tours include skip-the-line access to the Upper Belvedere for a peek at Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss.”

The hills are alive! Love the cinematic masterpiece “The Sound of Music,” but only have a few days in Vienna and can’t make it to Salzburg to go on a Sound of Music tour? Our private Sound of Music tour leaves from Vienna in the morning and whisks you off to Salzburg, a mere 2,5 hours from Vienna, where the World’s #1 Sound of Music Fan (who happens to work for Austria Tours & Travel) will take you to all the filming locations of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved musical. From the gazebo where Liesl and Rolf sang “Sixteen going on Seventeen” to the von Trapp villa, to the horse fountain and Mirabell palace in the city of Salzburg, you’ll get to see it all. You will also get a little break to refuel on Schnitzel with noodles if you so desire, or just stock up on souvenirs. “The Sound of Music” soundtrack will be played in the van and singing along to all the songs is highly encouraged.

The title of masterpiece gives a work of art a special status and if you are going to visit a museum for the first time, you want to see famous works by renowned masters. The Museum of the History of Art in Vienna has many paintings, gems and statues that count to the world famous masterpieces. They include paintings by Rembrandt, Cranach, Vermeer, Raphael and Caravaggio, sculptures by Canova, Gianbologna as well as works by ancient Greek and Roman artists. And you don't need experts to enjoy their works. This tour of the museum is for those who value both an aesthetic pleasure as well as an intellectual one. We will go through all the collections of one of the best art museums in the world and look at masterpieces from different perspectives to understand why this particular work, and not the neighbouring one, has made on the shortlist of must-see objects. To do this, we'll follow the museum's list of most valuable exhibits and I'll not only tell you their official histories and characteristics, I'll also explain how artists have used our cognition and clever self-promotion. We will also discuss the fickleness of worldly fame and the role of the spirit and the taste of the times. Among the major masterpieces we will break down in detail are Benvenuto Cellini's "Saliera", Raphael's "Madonna in the Meadow", Peter Brueghel's "The Tower of Babel" and "Hunters in the Snow", Caravaggio's "Madonna with Beads", Vermeer's "Allegory of Painting" as well as The Reserve Head from the Egyptian collection and Sarcophagus with Amazons from the Greek collection. On a tour with me you can not only enjoy the art, but also learn to navigate a little more in the intricacies of such a subtle matter as "genius".

The Leopold Collection includes the most striking and emotional works of Viennese art from the early twentieth century. In this art tour of the museum's collection, we take a look at works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele and Richard Gerstel to understand and experience the images of that complex and incredibly interesting era. Gustav Klimt is an artist with a biography full of endless creative pursuits. Each stage of his journey is represented in the collection of the Leopold Museum by distinctive works. We will look at Klimt's early drawings to appreciate his skills as a portrait painter. You will also discover newly discovered details of his biography that offer an unexpected perspective on the artist's much recognisable style. Egon Schiele is a perfect example to illustrate the connection between creativity and the movements of the artist's soul. We will certainly discuss whether it is a coincidence that when the Viennese psychotherapist Sigmund Freud was developing concepts such as "repression", "Oedipus complex" and "acting out", the Viennese artist Schiele painted portraits of blind associates, parodies of famous works by colleagues and paintings of dead mothers. Klim and Schiele are two of the most famous names of the Viennese art scene at the beginning of the 20th century, but we also take a look at the work of their contemporaries Koloman Moser, Max Openheimer and Bronzia Koller-Pinel and you get a detailed insight into the vibrant intellectual life and creative scene in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. In this tour of the Leopold Museum you will see how artists' redefinition of the purpose of art led to the birth of new artistic styles and a new idea of what art is.

Ads all over Vienna lure viewers at every turn to the Belvedere to see 'the most famous kiss', on this tour you will understand what The Kiss is all about and decide for yourself whose arguments are more persuasive — art historians, marketers or viewers. You will not only understand Klimt's style, but also see reflections of the the century turn in the work of this extraordinary artist. We will trace Klimt's creative transformations from his early Portrait of the Unknown Lady to his unfinished Bride, which was left in the studio when the artist was rushed by ambulance to hospital. Klimt was long known as 'the portraitist of beautiful ladies', and we will see why today's scholarship believes Klimt felt the desires of his models better than his contemporary Sigmund Freud understood the problems of his patients. On this tour, we'll take an in-depth look at Klimt's work, surrounded by his associates and competitors, and see why this particular artist is so important to Vienna. If you not only want to see The Kiss but also find diverse meanings in Klimt's works, this tour of the Klimt collection in the Belvedere is for you.

More composers have lived in Vienna than in any other city in the world-find out why on our private Vienna music tour! From the Vienna Boys Choir to the famous State Opera to the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss to the Austropop legend Falco, Vienna has it all! Our 3h musical odyssey will begin with a tour at the State Opera house (entrance fee included) where you will get behind-the-scenes access to the most famous opera house in the world. Afterwards, we'll embark on a leisurely musical stroll through the inner city of Vienna. Stops will include (but are not limited to): - Palais Lobkowitz (where Beethoven premiered his Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” and the home of his main patron) - Hofburg Imperial Chapel (where the Vienna Boys Choir perform every Sunday) - The Mozart Memorial - Former dance salon where the Waltz King Johann Strauss made the ladies swoon - Pasqualati House (former residence of Ludwig van Beethoven) - St. Stephen's Cathedral - Mozart's home and many more!

Marriage for all, Rainbow crosswalks, queer traffic light couples and a 4th place on the International Gay Travel Index for queer friendly destinations! Austria and especially his capital, Vienna, have made massive strides these last few years regarding the equality and visibility of the LGBTIQ+ community. None of that would have been possible without the countless brave activists and pioneers, that came before us. On our Queer-Vienna Walking Tour we meet Archdukes and Archduchesses, that defied the stiff conventions at court, we track down an espionage scandal, that shook the Empire – and even Sigmund Freud will get a word in! So grab your rainbow flags and your best feather boa and discover Vienna with us at its most colourful!

This is the perfect tour for families visiting Vienna with kids. You won’t have to worry about the children getting bored, or arranging alternative activities for them, as this tour has been specially designed to be kid-friendly. You’ll learn about Vienna’s highlights together, and get your bearings while taking part in fun games and trivia. Highlights include St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Mozart’s House, Heroes’ Square, and much more.

A private day-tour of the Austrian Lakes and Salzburg is a triple threat, appealing to Mozart, The Sound of Music, and nature fans.  Start your customizable tour when and where you like with private transportation and a guide taking you through the Austrian Lakes district.  Your stops in St. Gilgen and Salzburg show you not only Mozart’s hometown, but also filming locations of the 1965 film The Sound of Music.

Enjoy privately guided tours of two museums, where you will immerse yourself in Vienna’s rich musical history. Skip the line to the Mozart Museum, where you will tour one of his many Viennese homes, (he lived in 13 in the city), where he wrote the opera ‘Figaro’. Then, walk a few blocks to the House of Music museum, where your guide will take you through the worlds of several notable composers, including: Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Schubert, and Strauss. This museum is immersive and experiential, so even once your tour ends, we encourage you to stay and explore at your own leisure.

This Experience is provided by a private local. Find out the different cultural and artistic characteristics that makes this city unique and enjoy the buzzing community and city ambience! Whether you are visiting Vienna as a returning tourist who wants to get to know the city a bit better, or if this is your first time, this Experience is for you! While walking the streets of Vienna and looking at the amazing, unique street art or getting to know more about the city’s galleries and museums, you will hear about street-art artists as well as contemporary artists and their close connection to Vienna. I will share with you the art and cultural world of my city, where you will see, hear and experience how colorful and multifaceted Vienna is!

Explore locations associated with the great composer and gain a better understanding of Beethoven's work. In this tour, we immerse ourselves in Beethoven's Vienna and in the circumstances under which he wrote his music and gave his world premières. We discover original halls and venues, which were common places at the time of the Viennese Classic era, but today are away from today's well-trodden musical paths. No doubt, Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most performed and well-known composers in the world. He was an uncompromising revolutionary, a staunch humanist and artist who constantly explored and challenged the boundaries of arts. And his 9 symphonies have changed the music world forever. Although he was born in Bonn, Vienna became his true home and spiritual centre that formed him as an artist. And it is the city that he made an everlasting impact on him. In this private tour we see will visit those venues get deeper understanding of his music.

Museums and art galleries are full of images of women, naked and exquisitely dressed, realistic and overly idealised. Who are these attractive ladies - brides or prostitutes, criminals or heroines - and what they can tell us? On this tour, you will get profound answers to this question. You will not just learn stories of heroines from famous paintings. We also try to discover what cultural attitudes these masterpieces convey.  Works by Titian and Bellini will explain why Diana is depicted naked and how this relates to the girls' love of ponies and unicorns. In the collection of Venetian and Florentine paintings we will try to understand why Venetian courtesans look at us so proudly from their canvases, while saints, on the other hand, lower their eyes modestly. Madonnas by Raphael and Perugino will explain to us how Holy Scripture affirmed moral standards through female pictorial images, and portraits of Spanish princesses by Velázquez will show us the depth of cut allowed to women in power (up to the present day). This is an art tour ideal for those who want to look at timeless masterpieces from a new perspective.

You'll walk through the halls of a major Austrian museum to look at famous paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and understand the trends, concepts, terms and techniques of modern art. I will explain to you why the practice of self-comment was so important for modernist and avant-garde artists, and we'll do a little experiment: compare your perception of paintings on first impressions, after reading the author's commentary, and finally the critic's commentary. You get a sense for yourself of how much more important it can be to put a work into context, rather than its artistic value. The paintings of Renoir, Monet, Picasso, Bacon, Kandinsky and Malevich which you can view in the Albertina did not come into being from scratch. It absorbed the artistic legacy of the past and therefore the paintings of these masters call for pleasure and contemplation. But with their arrival, the paradigm of art itself has already changed and new techniques have provoked the public into making statements such as, "My child could do this too", which penalises contemporary art. You'll learn to compare works from different eras and understand the differences in artistic attitudes, you'll understand what an "intellectual challenge" is in the context of art, and you'll probably get a little more insight into contemporary art as well.