Vienna · MuseumsQuartier · Schiele, Klimt, Vienna 1900
Leopold Museum: tickets, hours and highlights
A white limestone cube in the MuseumsQuartier with what the museum calls the largest Egon Schiele collection in the world, works by Klimt and the design of Vienna 1900. Official prices, hours and practical tips.
Today
Opening hours for every month are on the Opening hours page.
Checked against the official website on 23 October 2026 · Official source
In short
- The Leopold Museum sells tickets through a booking widget on its own website and at its box office: 19 € full price, 16 € reduced (everyone under 26, visitors aged 65 and over, visitors with disabilities and unemployed visitors), 2.50 € under 19 and free under 7, as of 23 October 2026. Online tickets are valid for the day you choose.
- It is open from 10:00 to 18:00 every day except Tuesday, and open on public holidays, according to the museum. From 7 December 2026 to 10 January 2027 it is open every day, Tuesdays included. It is closed on 24 December and closes at 17:00 on 31 December. The official site does not publish a last-entry time.
- The museum says it holds the world’s largest Schiele collection, with over 220 works, and it also shows Klimt’s Death and Life and the permanent exhibition Birth of Modernism, on Vienna around 1900.
- The official FAQ says a visit takes about 2 to 3 hours. Café Leopold, on level 2, can be visited without a ticket.
- Our partner Tiqets, a third party, sells the adult ticket at 19 €, the same as the official price, for a date you choose. The museum itself says that an online ticket lets you visit without waiting.
Egon Schiele
The museum says it holds the largest Schiele collection in the world, with over 220 works. The official site highlights Self-Portrait with Physalis (1912, shown here), Portrait of Wally Neuzil (1912), Hermits (1912) and Caress (Cardinal and Nun) (1912).
We can only suggest what to look for: the museum rearranges its displays, and on a given day some of these works may be resting or on loan.
Gustav Klimt
The official highlights include Klimt’s Death and Life (1910/15), Attersee (1900) and The Large Poplar II (1902/03). The museum does not hold The Kiss: that painting is in the Upper Belvedere, which we cover in our sister guide at belvederevisit.com.
Vienna 1900: Birth of Modernism
The permanent exhibition on levels 0, 3 and 4 shows the art and design of the years around 1900: furniture by Koloman Moser, paintings by Richard Gerstl, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin and Albin Egger-Lienz, and Alfred Roller’s poster for the 14th Secession exhibition.
The museum also shows Biedermeier painters such as Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and atmospheric realism with Anton Romako. We name these artists only to tell you what to look for; the displays change.
A collection built by two doctors
According to the museum’s history page, Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold, two ophthalmologists, collected from the 1950s. In 1994 the collection, 5,200 works valued at 570 million euros, was transferred to the new Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in exchange for 160 million euros from the Republic of Austria and the National Bank. The museum opened in 2001, and Rudolf Leopold was its director until his death on 29 June 2010.
The building and the exhibition now on
The museum is a cube of white Danube limestone designed by Laurids and Manfred Ortner, with about 5,400 m² on five floors, in the MuseumsQuartier. The roof terrace can be visited with the Schiele Rooftop package (24 €).
When we checked, the temporary exhibition was Herbert Boeckl – Hans Josephsohn, Figural Archetypes, from 24 July 2026 to 10 January 2027.
