The Albertina - one of the best in the world

This world class art museum is located at Albertinaplatz in Vienna. This once home of Habsburg royalty has been turned into a museum with priceless works of Van Gogh, Dűrer, Da Vinci, etc. You can easily spend a whole day going through the art and reading the stories behind each one. As a bonus, a section called State Rooms (Prunkräume) is preserved and shows the elegance and how the Habsburgs lived. A visit to Albertina is a must for art lovers and with an affordable admission price – €19.90 for adults and free for children and teens 19 years & below. I have to say paying the extra 5 euro for the audio guide you download on your phone was worth every penny. It gave me such a deeper understanding of the collections and paintings. The narrator connects big part of the paintings from the exhibitions with history, background and interesting tidbits of information about the artists. I felt totally immersed in one world at a time for each part I visited. I started with the Matthew Wong (a Canadian artist I didn’t know about but was totally mesmerized by his art) and Van Gogh, this was such a moving exhibition especially when you learn about the life and struggles of both and connect this to their paintings. The Monet to Picasso exhibit spanned many painters and touched on my favourite Impressionism