Museum Judenplatz

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  • Address
    Jewish Quarter & Around, Judenplatz 8, 1st District, Innere Stadt
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  • Phone
    535 04 31
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  • Transport
    bus: 2A, 3A

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Lonely Planet review

The main focus of the city's second museum is the excavated remains of a medieval synagogue that once stood on Judenplatz. Built around 1420, it didn't last long: Duke Albrecht V's 'hatred and misconception,' as the museum puts it, led him to order its destruction in 1421. Documents and artefacts dating from 1200 to 1400 are on display. There is a short computer-graphics film on life in Jewish Vienna in the Middle Ages

The basic outline of the synagogue can still be seen, lit with subdued lighting, and a small model of the building helps to complete the picture. Don't pass over the spacey interactive screens explaining Jewish culture at the bottom of the stairs as you walk in. A combined ticket for around €7 /around €4 per adult/child allows entry to the museum plus the Stadttempel and Jüdisches Museum.