[with video] Official review: “Museum of Military History” (Vienna)
LOCATION. A twelve-minute walk from Vienna Central Station.
Exit the station on the east and walk along Karl-Popper-Strasse. Turn left into Ghegastrasse and enjoy the view of gentrified apartments and constructions all around you. Keep walking till you reach a park, then turn right into this red-bricked establishment.
The museum is right in the middle behind a lake / fountain.
LANGUAGES. They’ve got an app. So download it before you go up those stairs.
Otherwise, like me you’ll have to rely on the stacks of A4 paper in each gallery, a spectacular leaflet display in twelve office paper colours from twelve languages. And the more you insist on finding what specifically each page is telling you, the more you’ll also realize how heavily they come with these random obscure directives.
Imagine trying to find the "wall behind" or the "wall next to it" as you move from exhibit to exhibit.
THE PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS. Following the historical timeline is what everyone else is doing. So do it – start from the top floors and work yourself down.
As you celebrate the impressive rifle collection from the Thirty Year’s War, paintings of battles let you relive what it might be like to be in those troubling times. But with trees and mountains and perhaps everything else so conveniently framed, they pretty much tell you how free those artistic licenses are back then.
These showrooms start with hand-crafted descriptions on wooden panels, smelling everything of old-school showcases (cf.: London’s Petrie or Cambridge’s Sedgwick Museum). But just as contemporary history has been a narrative of progress, and so as you move ever closer to the twentieth century galleries – the displays are gradually to be modernized, with bilingualism and romantic spotlights.
THE AREA. Vienna "Central" Station is more to the south of city centre. And so it shouldn’t be that surprising that there isn’t really a lot of attractions around the area.
After you finish the museum you may wish to visit the sloppy Belvedere Palace and parks, a fifteen-minute walk away.
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
Exit the station on the east and walk along Karl-Popper-Strasse. Turn left into Ghegastrasse and enjoy the view of gentrified apartments and constructions all around you. Keep walking till you reach a park, then turn right into this red-bricked establishment.
The museum is right in the middle behind a lake / fountain.
“Museum of Military History” (Vienna)
LANGUAGES. They’ve got an app. So download it before you go up those stairs.
Otherwise, like me you’ll have to rely on the stacks of A4 paper in each gallery, a spectacular leaflet display in twelve office paper colours from twelve languages. And the more you insist on finding what specifically each page is telling you, the more you’ll also realize how heavily they come with these random obscure directives.
Imagine trying to find the "wall behind" or the "wall next to it" as you move from exhibit to exhibit.
Clip: “Museum of Military History” (Vienna)
THE PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS. Following the historical timeline is what everyone else is doing. So do it – start from the top floors and work yourself down.
As you celebrate the impressive rifle collection from the Thirty Year’s War, paintings of battles let you relive what it might be like to be in those troubling times. But with trees and mountains and perhaps everything else so conveniently framed, they pretty much tell you how free those artistic licenses are back then.
These showrooms start with hand-crafted descriptions on wooden panels, smelling everything of old-school showcases (cf.: London’s Petrie or Cambridge’s Sedgwick Museum). But just as contemporary history has been a narrative of progress, and so as you move ever closer to the twentieth century galleries – the displays are gradually to be modernized, with bilingualism and romantic spotlights.
THE AREA. Vienna "Central" Station is more to the south of city centre. And so it shouldn’t be that surprising that there isn’t really a lot of attractions around the area.
After you finish the museum you may wish to visit the sloppy Belvedere Palace and parks, a fifteen-minute walk away.
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
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