16/43.- Vienna, Museum of Fine Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Natural History are two symmetric buildings that sit one in front of the other. The Fine Arts Museum has a vast collection of Fine Arts, from Ancient Egypt works to Rubens, Rembrant, Titian and Raphael. The Natural history museum has a collection of meteorites, fossils, insects and skeletons of pre-historic animals. Both Museums were built by Gottfried Semperand and Karl von Hasenauer. The construction of these buildings began in 1872, the first was completed in 1881 and the second in 1891.

At the end of the Burg Ring Avenue there’s the Dr Renner Lueger Ring. The parliament, the Town Hall and the University sit on this avenue. That’s where we’ll go now ...

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