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Vienna Art Nouveau Tour: Metro Stations & Buildings
4.9
22 Ratings
Wien
Join a 2.5-hour guided tour led by a scholar, exploring Vienna’s Art Nouveau Metro Stations and renowned Art Nouveau architecture. Discover the design features, political context, and aesthetic philosophy of this sophisticated turn-of-the-century style.
Join a 2.5-hour guided tour led by a scholar, exploring Vienna’s Art Nouveau Metro Stations and renowned Art Nouveau architecture. Discover the design features, political context, and aesthetic philosophy of this sophisticated turn-of-the-century style.
Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Otto Wagner Pavilion Karlsplatz - Begin the journey at the stunning pavilion at Karlsplatz, setting the stage for the discussion by exploring the intimate Wagner Museum.
- Stadtpark - Proceed to the Stadtpark station, the most well-preserved of the original metro stations still operational. Here, delve into the design elements. A notable…
- Otto Wagner Pavilion Karlsplatz - Begin the journey at the stunning pavilion at Karlsplatz, setting the stage for the discussion by exploring the intimate Wagner Museum.
- Stadtpark - Proceed to the Stadtpark station, the most well-preserved of the original metro stations still operational. Here, delve into the design elements. A notable feature of this station is the adjacent artificial riverbed created for the small Vienna river, which had to be redirected when the city train was constructed, posing a significant challenge in integrating the realigned river into the new urban landscape.
- Secession - The next metro stop is Kettenbrücke station. En route, visit and explore the renowned Sezession art building, a quintessential icon of Viennese Jugendstil, along with two exquisite apartment buildings by Otto Wagner. Here, explore the philosophy behind Jugendstil and examine the symbols and materials preferred by its artists.
From Kettenbrücke station, board the metro for the final stop, a visit to the imperial station. This remarkable building was constructed outside the Schönbrunn castle exclusively for the Emperor’s use. As the crown jewel of the line, this station symbolically demonstrated the emperor’s support for Vienna’s metro to its critics. In this small yet dynamic building, observe all the elements encountered throughout the walk and at the other stations, while also noting Wagner’s methods of transforming the typically bourgeois Art Nouveau style into an aesthetic of imperial grandeur.
What's Included
- Professional guide
- 2.5-hour guided tour of Vienna Art Nouveau metro stations and iconic buildings
- Professional guide
- 2.5-hour guided tour of Vienna Art Nouveau metro stations and iconic buildings
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Entrance fees: From April to October, when the museum is open, this tour incorporates a visit to the Otto Wagner Pavilion. Admission fees are as following: €5 for General admission €4 for Senior citizens, students, holders of Vienna Card and persons with disabilities
- Entrance fees: If…
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Entrance fees: From April to October, when the museum is open, this tour incorporates a visit to the Otto Wagner Pavilion. Admission fees are as following: €5 for General admission €4 for Senior citizens, students, holders of Vienna Card and persons with disabilities
- Entrance fees: If you tour on Tuesday to Sunday, €9,50 Adults and €6 students and seniors admission to Secession House to see Gustave Klimt’s famous Beethoven Frieze. Your guide will help you to pay.
Additional Information
- A maximum of 8 people per booking
- A maximum of 8 people per booking
Location
Operngasse 7
Operngasse
Please meet your guide outside Café Museum, Operngasse 7A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(22 Ratings)
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S1053344e63804ae2025
Apr 9, 2025
Two hours well spent in Vienna! - Our guide’s name was Isis and she was extremely knowledgeable and interesting. We learned a lot about the artists at the forefront of this movement and how it impacted Vienna - culturally, historically, musically and aesthetically. Isis did a wonderful job of explaining and connecting many details. I recommend this tour wholeheartedly, especially after touring museums dedicated to the Hapsburgs. The contrast between “old” and “new” becomes clearer.
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Jennifer
Apr 8, 2025
Well worth the time and $! - We love art and architecture, and it was so helpful to have a knowledgeable guide take us around to various places in the city to show us the world of Viennese Art Nouveau. Our guide, Gerti, was an energetic delight. She also patiently answered a zillion additional questions about Austrian society that had nothing to do with our tour topic. Highly recommend!
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Iolanda_j
Jan 19, 2024
Fascinating tour - strongly recommended - My husband and I were absolutely delighted with this fascinating tour. Our cultural guide, a charming and incredibly knowledgeable lawyer with a keen affinity for architecture and Austrian history gave us one of the best visits in a long traveling life. We've been to Vienna multiple times and visited quite a few of its stunning Jugendstil monuments, but he still managed to show us buildings we didn't know, share new insights and anecdotes, and make us forget the cold and damp weather in the process. It was a memorable experience that we strongly recommend.
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Sara_r
Nov 25, 2023
Highly recommend if you are passionate about art and architecture - Jan was very interesting and passionate about Vienna. The blight was the succession building and the Beethoven frieze. Highly recommend
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Mavellaneda
Nov 11, 2023
Unmissable if you love Art Nouveau! - Can’t say enough great things about our Art Nouveau tour with Ilse. Her knowledge of the topic as well as her ability to put art nouveau in Vienna in the context of the political and architectural development of the time and the city was extremely informative and interesting. She also went above and beyond to show and share so many examples and interesting facts. Absolutely LOVED this tour! Wish we had arranged a similar tour with Insight Cities in Budapest as we also found beautiful art nouveau there. Also did the Vienna City of Music tour with Annelie. Insight Cities has amazing guides and very special tours… highly recommended!
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Mavellaneda
Nov 9, 2023
Fabulous your, super knowledgeable guide - Can’t say enough about our guide Ilse. Very knowledgeable… and such a pleasure to listen to… provided great context of the history of art nouveau in Vienna relative to the political and architectural development of the city. AMAZING… don’t miss it! Start with this tour as you will want to explore even more on your own afterwards! Enjoy!
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Will_i
Nov 1, 2023
Great afternoon. Well worth it! - It was a pretty cold and rainy day and we weren’t super excited to be out in the weather. Fortunately our guide called and offered to take us by car so we wouldn’t be soaked and that was greatly appreciated. We loved seeing the Klimt in Secession Museum and learning all the bldg and the movement behind it. Learning about Otto Wagner and getting to see many different examples of his work was so wonderful.
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Denise_c
Oct 7, 2023
Art and travel in Vienna - Stephan was a wonderful guide! He was very knowledgeable about the city and about art and art nouveau. He was willing to adjust the tour to accommodate the travelers in our group and provided us with suggestions of places to visit/eat during our stay. An added bonus: as a result of the tour, we learned how to navigate the public trains and transportation system in and around Vienna!
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Stephane_r
Apr 9, 2023
Excellent tour ! - Our guide was absolutely perfect : passionate and highly competent! Incredible knowledge, she had a pertinent and adapted answer to all our requests or questions
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358cleliac
Aug 12, 2022
Nomadic trains: a nightmare! - With my family I took a trip to France. All the way to Paris on the Frecciarossa, all right. The problems started when we took a Nomad train from Paris to Pontorson which after about two hours of travel broke down. Inevitable change of train with stop in Caen, next change and arrival at destination with more than two hours delay. This inevitably delayed our visit to Mont Sant Michel which we had to do with paid taxis. But it didn’t end there: another stop from Pontorson to Ruen : about halfway through the route an interruption on the line blocked the train for about three hours and our arrival in the city was so delayed late in the evening even here our plans were disrupted. Obviously, it was very hot on the train and we were not given any comfort except a bottle of water when we left. What to say? We criticize, sometimes rightly, our transport but ... the whole world is country!!
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