The Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and the main building. It is the largest art museum in the country and one of the most important museums worldwide.
Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna with Maria-Theresien-Platz
Rotunda
Madonna of the Meadow by Raphael, 1506
Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1563
The Vienna Ring Road is a 5.3 km circular grand boulevard that serves as a ring road around the historic Innere Stadt district of Vienna, Austria. The road is located on sites where medieval city fortifications once stood, including high walls and the broad open field ramparts (glacis), criss-crossed by paths that lay before them.
The Schubertring section of the Ringstraße in Vienna
The Schottenring section of the Ringstraße in 1875
The Ringstraße with parliament on the left and Volksgarten park to the right
Burgring with the Museum of Natural History to the left