Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum) Vienna

Our last day started with a noon mass at the big St. Stephen's Cathedral and another standing room only performance. The kids were great but they also started looking a little tired.

After mass Calvin and I headed out for the New City Hall for the Ice World extravaganza. They installed 7,00 meters of synthetic ice track around the Rathaus …

Yesterday evening there was off and on mixed rain-and-snow, but it was not sticking or anything. I awoke this morning, however, to about 3-5cm of snow outside the hotel. It has warmed up a bit now, so the snow has been melting since about 10 am or so, but I am still noticing off and on wet snow flurries/sleet. Fortunately I had brought my warm …

... to get some shut eye, and i can tell you it was the best nights sleep ever! The next morning we walked to the natural history museum which was pretty cool. It had figures there carved from 25,000 years ago, and one from 35,000 years ago. - ...

... , we both liked it.    After the exhibition we enjoyed the lovely sunshine in the gardens by the Natural History Museum, sitting among the bushes trimmed into perfectly round balls and other geometric shapes. We moved on when an old man started ...

... started, so we wandered around the palace area, over to the Maria Theresa monument, and decided to check out the natural history museum. They had a tattoo exhibit that was somewhat interesting, and a lot of dusty exhibits in the other rooms. The ...

... nbsp; At this square is housed the Kunsthistory Museum, which is the Austrian History Building.  Across the way is the Natural History Museum.  In the middle stands a statue to Maria Theresa.  We got off the bus and from there continued ...

... World War 1, but what they left was quite impressive. The Hofburg is surrounded by the National Library, Volk Theater, Natural History Museum, and the Art Museum which is comprised mainly of the Hapsburgs former private collection. The parliament still ...

... Anywho... Then we went for a meander around Vienna to lots of different monuments and buildings, before going to the Natural History museum - filled with stuffed animals and odd fossils and about 6 rooms filled with minerals, a little too long but very ...

... Lena Rosa showing me the best parts of the city as well as stopping for some great ice cream on the way to the natural history museum, which was one of Lena Rosa's favorites and she decided that was something that I should see while I was there. Vienna ...

... of its oldest and most famous buildings. The 2 museum buildings around Maria Theresin Platz are amazing (Art, and Natural History museum). The Hofburg Palace is so impressive and so ostentatious that one start imagining how powerful the Habsburgs must ...

... good to move on. We walked on around our circuit to a place called the museumsquartier, which housed several museums, namely the Natural History Museum and the Art Museum (although they aren’t exactly called that in German...). I was particularly ...

... Mozart gave his first performance at the age of 7!! Then we took the U-bahn back into the city to tour the Natural history museum. There were lots of rocks, gems, meteorites, animals and even a Darwin exhibit. The building itself was just as special ...