The Art History Museum was built in 1891 near the Imperial Palace to house the extensive collections of the imperial family. With its vast array of eminent works and the largest Bruegel collection in the world, it is considered one of the most eminent museums in the world.

Numerous major art works of European art history, among the Raphael's "Madonna in the Meadow", Vermeer's "The Allegory of Painting", the Infanta paintings by Velazquez, masterworks by Rubens, Rembrandt, Dürer, Titian and Tintoretto are housed in the paintings gallery.

In the Collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, one finds rarities from the former art collections of the Habsburgs, and in the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection there are many treasures of important ancient cultures.

The architectural mirror image of the Museum of Fine Arts in the Museum of Natural History on the opposite side, which was also built according to designs by Gottfried Semper and Karl von Hanseauer.

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