Museum of Applied Arts

Located at Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹. The MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) is an amazing museum in Vienna that not only focuses on traditional arts and crafts and design but also architecture and contemporary art. At night, the building is illuminated with a wonderful permanent MAKlite. It’s wonderful to watch. Ticket prices - Online €15.50 On site €16.50 I suggest using the museum audio guide, it provides great information about the artefacts and lets you go at your own pace. I also suggest getting your tickets online, you save money and also you can skip the lines. The museum traces its roots back to 1864 and the opening of the Imperial Royal Museum of Art and Industry, intended as Austria’s equivalent to what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. There’s so much to see at the MAK, from Baroque glassware to industrial design. We were kept interested throughout the whole time we were there. There’s always the permanent exhibitions and collections but there also the temporary ones that we found so interesting. The building itself is truly inspiring, the architecture is simply amazing. We had a wonderful time at this museum and would definitely recommend. Thumbs up!!! 👍👍

Well worth a visit. The museum has many interesting collections of furniture, textiles ceramics, and exquisitely crafted household items. It is housed in a beautiful building and has a knowledgeable and friendly staff.

My favorite museum experience on our 5 days in Vienna. The museum is unassuming from the outside but inside it is a huge complex filled with an incredibly variety of art. You can find everything from pottery, quirky furniture, posters, and eco-friendly design from every discipline imaginable. If you love spending time in museums appreciating the art and reading the majority of material, you might want to plan on spending at least 3-5 hours here.

Great musueam with very friendly staff at the reception, multiple expositions with some permanent and other changing depending on the time of the year. In the center there is a bunch of sofa to chill in between expositions. Divers thèmes and estethics

Not only a wonderfully curated museum, but the staff were all friendly and well informed! I was especially impressed by the available information across all exhibition spaces during my visit.

Great place for culture & design lovers. Amazing exhibition of glasses and chairs. But most importantly, there were many more furniture and dishes exhibitions. #1 place to visit in Vienna

Spectacular building with space and calm to absorb the beautiful and provocative designs evolving. There's history but also current design ideas for solving global challenges

Fabulous museum! The architecture of the building itself is gorgeous. Various exhibits will either interest you or not, but all worth taking a look.

MAK is an excellent Museum of Applied Arts. They do an excellent job getting guest curators and artists to engage with the collection in inventive and dynamic ways to highlight various items & how they relate to each other. This makes the collection come alive, and it becomes much more interesting to experience, compared to the standard, more static, approach I see in many museums. One highlight was the stunning 1907 gesso panels, Seven Princesses by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. You need to see it in person to appreciate its subtle beauty and impressive scope. Apparently, the Seven Princesses only survived WW1 because a curator hid the piece to keep it safe. The curator brought it down to the museum's basement, put the panels into three crates along the wall, then built a brick wall in front of them, which was painted to match the existing walls. They stayed hidden like this until they were discovered in 1990. Another highlight was an installation from Superflux called Invocation for Hope, which featured hundreds of dead trees burned from a forest fire that were installed around some live plants & moss around a 'pool'. When I visited, they also had a lot of environment & sustainability related projects on display -- there were some really interesting projects there. The building itself also has lovely architectural features.

I happened to go to MAK on free night which is Tuesday from 6 PM to 10 PM so I had a really good time. Does it compare to the Victoria & Albert in London, NO.... but then again what does. Also this museum building has a lot of space, a lot of space that they don't really utilize very well. There could be a whole lot more on display. But anyway my favorite part was the permanent collection which is on the top floor, lots of decorative items from around 1890 into 1940's.

Wonderful museum for decorative arts. especially good for Weiner Werkstatte items. Excellent temporary exhibit featuring virtual reality glasses for 'entering' Gustav Klimt paintings!

Such an interesting, thoughtful set of exhibits. Really loved the "handmade" quality of many of the exhibits (way to walk your talk, MAK) and the "guest curation" by so many modern artists and writers. Highly recommended for visitors who are interested in applied arts. One sour note: MAK needs a re-usable shopping bag that is all MAK, instead of the ones you sell now. I would LOVE to advertise you in all my schlepping.

Worth seeking out as the exhibits cover so many aspects of design - clothing, architecture, sustainability, tech, food/eating, play ... totally kid-friendly and with a nice restaurant attached. I would totally go again when back in Vienna