Vienna Sights

Schmetterlinghaus

#246 of 694 things to do in Vienna

#8949 of 49020 things to do in Europe

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Good for: all - families with kids incl

Not good for: High price quality

  • Address
    • 01 Burggarten
  • Transport
    • U1, U2, U4 Karlsplatz
    • D, 1, 2, 62
  • Website
  • Phone
    • 01 533 85 70
  • Price
    • adult/3-6yr/student/senior €5.50/3/4.50/5
  • Hours
    • 10am-4.45pm Mon-Fri, 10am-6.15pm Sat & Sun Apr-Oct, 10am-3.45pm Nov-Mar

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Lonely Planet review for Schmetterlinghaus

Sharing the Habsburg’s personal Jugendstil glasshouse (1901) with the Palmenhaus bar, the Schmetterlinghaus (Butterfly House) is for the butterfly-mad only. There are hundreds of butterflies and the shop stocks a great range of butterfly paraphernalia, but the air is hot and unbearably humid, the species range fairly limited and it’s quite a small display area. It’s located in the Burggarten, directly behind the Neue Burg.

 

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    WAS OK

    tanfalow27 does not recommend this,

    TOO HOT IN THE ROOM BUT WAS VERY GOOD SET UP

    Good for: all - families with kids incl

    Not good for: High price quality

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    The Imperial Butterfly House was lots of fun

    friedom recommends this,

    I hadn,t read anything about the butterfly house and just arrived by accident.I was standing by the opera building and looked at my map.I wanted to walk over to the Hofburg,the royal palace and decided to take a short cut through the Burggarten.What a surprise,there was a huge and fantastic Jugendstil greenhouse there,just about the greatest greenhouse I,ve ever seen.Maybe it,s called a palmhouse or a conservatory or something,anyway it was amazing.One part of it advertised the butterfly house so I decided to have a look in.It really was a butterfly house with loads of butterflies whizzing around.It was quite hot and clammy but so is the rainforest,I took my jacket off anyway. I spent about 40 minutes inside and I,ve never seen anything like it in the centre of a city before.There were spiral staircases inside trees and a bridge up in the air.Some of the butterflies were huge.I,ll go again next time I am in Vienna.I wasn,t butterfly crazy before I got there but I,m quite butterfly crazy now.

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