From backpackers hostels to grand ballroom dancing, the April newsletter of Vienna Tourist Office which I just received has much to offer.
Museum lovers like myself will be pleased to learn that Vienna counts no less than 100 options. That shear number by itself would justify repeat visits to the city.
Before the advent of smartphones and travel apps, maps and globes were the way to visualize your trip. There is a tactile element to globes as well.
Vienna is home to world's only Globe Museum which hosts 200 terrestial, celestial, lunar and planetary globes. The main emphasis of the holdings is on terrestrial and celestial globes made before 1850.
Opened in 1956, the museum moved to Palais Mollard in 2005.
"In the permanent displays the globes are presented to the visitors as specific cartographic expressions, but also as valuable aesthetic objects of high artistic quality and craftsmanship. Particular aspects of the study of globes are emphasised: the history of globes, their production, the spectrum of topics presented on globes, but also questions relevant to the history of culture, such as the use of globes and their reception. Examples make it easy to follow the development of geographic and cosmographic concepts and knowledge in the past centuries. The Museum shows not only three-dimensional objects: digital presentations offer a gripping connection between the old treasures that may not be touched and modern means of communication."
For a couple hours, leave your tech toys behind and travel back in time.
Globe Museum is opened Tuesday through Sunday from 10 AM to 6 PM except Thursdays when it closes at 9 PM.
(* Illustration is Joseph Jüttner: Himmels- und Erdglobus, 1824, 1822 from Globe Museum Catalog)