SALZBURG: Marionette Theatre

The 2012 Children’s Museum Award

The Learning Museum:

Austria – FRida & FreD – The Graz Children’s Museum
Estonia – Museum Miia-Milla-Manda, Tallinn
Germany – Labrynth Children’s Museum, Berlin
Germany – Junges Schloss: The Children’s Museum in Stuttgart
Italy – START – Laboratorio di Culture Creative, Bologna
The Netherlands – Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam | Virtual Tour
The Netherlands – Tropenmuseum Junior, Amsterdam
The Netherlands – Children’s Books Museum, The Hague
The Netherlands – Villa Zebra, Rotterdam
The Philippines – Pambata Museum, Manila
Sweden – Jamtli, Östersund
Turkey – Istanbul Toy Museum
United Kingdom – Discover Children’s Story Centre, London

VIENNA: Klimt 2012

Klimt 2012. A kiss changes the world

Gustav Klimt in Vienna

A Klimt Walk through Vienna

Klimt and the Birth of Modernism in Vienna | Special Exhibitions

VIENNA: Coffee Houses

Viennese coffee house culture listed as UNESCO intangible cultural heritage

Coffee houses are a veritable institution in the Austrian capital Vienna – and are now officially recognized as such after being added to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. One of the city’s biggest and best-loved coffee houses is Café Landtmann, and the owner told us how his family balances preserving tradition and keeping up with the times.

CITY: 2011 Quality of Living

Mercer’s 2011 Quality of Living ranking highlights – Global

• European cities dominate worldwide Quality of Living ranking, with cities in Australia, New Zealand and Canada also ranked highly. Singapore is the first Asian city in the Top 25, at 25.
• Vienna is No. 1 in the Quality of Living ranking.
• Luxembourg tops our Personal Safety ranking, with Bern and Helsinki following.
• Baghdad has the lowest quality of living among the 221 cities we ranked and is also last in the Personal Safety ranking.

P H O T O S
Best Places To Live 2011: European Cities Top List, Baghdad At The Bottom

RIVER ITINERARIES: Danube

A trip down the Danube River

GARDENS AROUND THE WORLD

Top 10 Gardens

Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (Special Tribute Edition)

Great Gardens – Dessau-Wörlitz, Germany

Great Gardens – Bad Muskau, Germany

Great Gardens – Loire Valley, France

Great Gardens – Sissinghurst, Britain

Great Gardens – Patscherkofel, Austria

C I T Y : VIENNA

+ C I T I N E R A R Y : VIENNA

Winter Sport Destinations around Europe

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a contestant for the 2018 Winter Olympics

Trysil, Norway

Sierra Nevada, Spain

Mount Elbrus, Russia

Upper Black Forest, Germany

Stubai Valley, Austria

C I T I N E R A R Y : VIENNA

A R C H I T E C T U R E

• 20ER HAUS
• Az W: Architecture Center Vienna (Architekturzentrum Wien)
• Hundertwasser Architecture
• KUNST HAUS WIEN | Museum Hundertwasser
• Hundertwasser House
• District Heating Plant
• Modern Architecture & Design
• Secession
• TopTours: Architecture close up: The Architecture Center Vienna offers new tours to the most remarkable buildings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

“IN”-PLACES

M A P S

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M U S E U M S

• MQW: Museums Quartier Wien | In | KIDS GUIDE

The MuseumsQuartier is one of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world and offers more than 60 different cultural facilities. More than 60,000 square meters of space provide plenty of room for modern and contemporary art and culture – and lots of exciting activities for kids.

• Az W: Architecture Center Vienna
• DSCHUNGEL WIEN | Theater for Young Audiences
• KUNST HAUS WIEN. Museum Hundertwasser
• KUNSTHALLE
• LEOPOLD MUSEUM | kids | virtual tour
• MUMOK | kids
• math.space
• ZOOM Kindermuseum
• Albertina
• Belvedere
• Chocolate Museum | Schokolademuseum
• House of Music
• MAK | Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
• Museum of Fine Arts
• Natural History Museum
• Shoe Museum | Schuhmuseum
• Technical Museum | Family

P L A Y S E E I N G | SIGHTSEEING FOR FAMILIES:

• Prater
• Schönbrunn: Things to know:
• Kindermuseum: Here you can find out about the kind of world the imperial children lived in, a time wheel will tell you the difference between a child of the imperial family and one from the middle classes. You can play with the toys from imperial times and learn the secret language of fans or lay the table for an imperial banquet!
• Maze – Labyrinth – Labyrinthikon
• Strudelshow: Bakers to the Crown
• Zoo Vienna
• Cooltour4Kids

SHOPPING with/for children

TRAVEL | ACCOMMODATIONS | Family Special

V I D E O : Children of the World