Vienna’s art in a nutshell

A short visit to Vienna these days is not the easiest thing if you really love the arts and are a devoted museum-goer. There’s so much on offer you will surely feel puzzled in this wonderful city. You see, Vienna has over 100 museums, major collections of global calibre as well as bizarre little ones and there’s no time to visit them all. Besides, there are problems as lack of information or too much of it that make the selection even more tricky. OnCulture went through some of the city’s hottest museums, saw what’s on and presents a shortlist of 76 shows you should not miss from Fall 2009 until the end of 2010, or even through 2011.
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A Dutch cultural extravaganza

An avalanche of over 27 top quality art exhibitions in ten of Holland’s best museums in four cities, within a period of 32 months (November 2008 to June 2011) is what the Dutch masterminded in order to take the European art-loving crowds by storm once again. The ongoing art explosion of world-class cultural offerings has a name: Holland Art Cities is a carefully planned project that coordinates dozens of museums, institutions, public and private organization in an effort to promote The Netherlands as Europe’s cultural hub.
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