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The Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and the main building.
It was opened around 1891 at the same time as the Naturhistorisches Museum, by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary. The two museums have identical exteriors and face each other across Maria-Theresien-Platz. Both buildings were built between 1872 and 1891 according to plans drawn up by Gottfried Semper and Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer.
The two Ringstraße museums were commissioned by the Emperor in order to find a suitable shelter for the Habsburgs' formidable art collection and to make it accessible to the general public. The façade was built of sandstone. The building is rectangular in shape, and topped with a dome that is 60 meters high. The inside of the building is lavishly decorated with marble, stucco ornamentations, gold-leaf, and paintings.
Construction of two monumental museum buildings - one for fine arts and one for natural history - started in 1872 at a new square, the Maria-Theresien-Platz.
The twin structures were built on either side of the square and mirror each other. The design was created by Gottfried Semper, who was also responsible for the design of the Neue Burg, the last expansion of the Hofburg.
The interior of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, designed by Karl von Hasenauer, is spectacular, with large marble columns, monumental staircases and statues. A number of prominent Austrian artists, such as Franz Matsch, Gustav Klimt and his brother Ernst Klimt, decorated the interior with lively murals.
he Hunters in the Snow, also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Northern Renaissance work is one of a series of six, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year. The painting is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
| Name | Kunsthistorisches Museum |
| Address | Maria-Theresien-Platz 1010 Wien |
| Tel | (01)525240 |
| ＨＰ | http://www.khm.at |
| Opening Hours | Tu - Su 10:00 - 18:00, Th, 10:00 - 21:00 |
| Closed | Mondays |
| Prices | Adult: €12.00, Young people under 19: Free |
| Access | 1 minute from MUSEUMQUARTIER station |
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