| Address: |
Hofburg
Heldenplatz
Vienna
A-1010
Austria
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| Tel: |
020 3011 3102
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| Email: |
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| Website: |
visit website
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| Flight time from UK: |
2 hrs 15 mins |
| Time Zone: |
GMT +1 hour |
| Location & Parking: |
City centre |
Description
The Museum of Ethnology is one of the most important of its kind in the world. It developed out of the Anthropological-Ethnographical Department of the Natural History Museum, and has been housed in this part of the Hofburg Palace since 1928. Its oldest exhibits were already acquired in the 16th century, and found their way via Ambras Castle in the Tyrol to the Imperial Collection in Vienna.
The Museum of Ethnology Vienna (MVK), situated in the Corps de Logis-part of the Neue Burg, was opened to the public on 25 May 1928. With the opening of the new museum the ethnographic collection was separated from the Museum of Natural History, which was established in 1889.