Vienna · MuseumsQuartier
Leopold Museum
One ophthalmologist's obsession with Schiele, now the largest collection of him anywhere
The Schiele rooms, which tell the story of a four-year career
Rudolf Leopold bought Schiele when nobody wanted him, starting in the 1950s, and assembled the largest holding in the world before selling it to a state foundation in 1994. The museum opened in 2001 in a white limestone cube in the old imperial stables and shows Vienna around 1900 more completely than anywhere else: Schiele, Klimt, Gerstl, the Wiener Werkstätte.
The MuseumsQuartier around it holds mumok for contemporary art and the Kunsthalle for temporary shows, with a courtyard that the city uses as a public living room from April onwards.
The detail
Good to know
- Opened
- 2001
- Collection
- Largest Schiele holding in the world
- Also here
- mumok and Kunsthalle Wien
- Courtyard
- Free public space, used all summer
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