Plunge into Viennese (and international) art at the MuseumsQuartier

For a change from so-called classical art, we recommend at least a visit to Mumok, Vienna's Museum of Modern Art, which focuses on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Housed in a modern basalt lava building, the museum owes part of its collection to a long-term loan from the Ludwig Foundation, which has donated 10,000 pieces.

Famous works byAndy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Günter Brus, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono and Gerhard Richter are on show. The exhibition is spread over several levels and covers a wide range of art movements, including Pop Art, photorealism,Viennese activism and modernism.

The Leopold Museum houses a private collection ofmodern Austrian art comprising 5,000 works from the 19th and 20th centuries, mainly paintings and drawings from the personal collection of Dr Rudolf Leopold, purchased by the Austrian government in 1994.

It's the most visited museum in the MuseumsQuartier, and with good reason! It boasts the world's largest collection of works byEgon Schiele, as well as some of the masterpieces of the founder of the Viennese Secession, Gustave Klimt. During your visit, you'll wander between the pillars ofViennese Art Nouveau, the Wiener Werkstätte andExpressionism.

Fans ofcontemporary art won't want to miss the Kunsthalle Vienna in the MuseumsQuartier! Contemporary art is on display in all its forms at this establishment, which aims to encourage visitors to reflect on the works it exhibits.

Temporary exhibitions, each more innovative than the last, take place in this former baroque riding school, creating a magnificently successful fusion between the city's past, present and future. A flexible and experimental branch of Vienna's Kunsthalle is also located at Karlsplatz.

Visiting all those museums is exhausting! So we went to Café Central, 10 minutes from the MuseumsQuartier, a veritable institution in Vienna. Built in 1876 in the neo-Renaissance style, the restaurant is sublime with its majestic columns and imperial chandeliers.

Its reputation is well established, havingplayed host to the likes of Trotsky and Lenin. It serves typical Viennese dishes such as schnitzel, goulash, dumplings and delicious pastries.