5464 x 8192 px | 46,3 x 69,4 cm | 18,2 x 27,3 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
28 mars 2025
Lieu:
Vienna, Austria
Informations supplémentaires:
The Weltmuseum (translating to World Museum) in Vienna is the largest anthropological museum in Austria, established in 1876. It is housed in a wing of the Hofburg Imperial Palace and holds a collection of more than 400, 000 ethnographical and archaeological objects from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America. Until 2013, it was known as the Museum of Ethnology, German: Museum für Völkerkunde). Following the enlargement of Vienna after the demolition of the city walls in the 1860s, the Hofburg had its last great expansion. An Imperial Forum (Kaiserforum) was planned, in which a two-winged structure reaching beyond the Ring Road, with the twin museums (Kunsthistorisches Museum and Naturhistorisches Museum) as flanks and terminating at the old Imperial Mews (the Hofstallungen, not to be confused with the much older Stallburg) of Fischer von Erlach. The project was led by Gottfried Semper and later by Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer. The museums were completed in 1891,
