Kunsthistorisches Museum
Overview
The Habsburg treasury of art in a Ringstrasse palace facing its twin Natural History Museum. Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Tower of Babel, Hunters in the Snow, and the world's largest Bruegel room, Vermeer's Art of Painting, Velazquez, and Cellini's salt cellar, the Mona Lisa of sculpture.
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