Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

Built by Emperor Franz Joseph I to house the Habsburg imperial art collections and opened in 1891, the Kunsthistorisches Museum is the largest art museum in Austria. The Ringstrasse façade and the ceremonial staircase decorated by paintings by Hans Makart and the young Gustav Klimt constitute significant works of historicist architecture in their own right. The collection spans Egyptian antiquities, Greek and Roman sculpture, and one of the world's finest holdings of Old Master paintings, including exceptional concentrations of Bruegel, Titian, and Velázquez.