December 2025
VIENNA!!!! If you look up the top art museum cities in Europe, you’ll see Vienna on almost every list. I knew that it was home to Egon Schiele and Klimt, but I had no idea that there is SO much more! So Scott and I spent Christmas Eve on a long flight over the Atlantic to see what we could find. For about two weeks prior to our trip I researched the heck out of the museums because I didn’t want to miss a thing, and I don’t think we did :) We landed around 11:30 a.m. local time, dropped off our bags and went straight to the Albertina. The Albertina is probably best known for its Albrecht Durer works, but because those are on paper and date back to the early 1500s, they are rarely on view. But we found plenty to entertain us. Their Batliner Collection is solid: Matisse, Oskar Kokoschka, Munch, Picasso, Monet and more. They also had a special Gothic Art exhibition with lots of skulls, including this bad boy from Vincent Van Gogh, on loan from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. We did...