Get the most out of your museum visit with our Smartify audio tours! Explore our collection and exhibitions with a fresh perspective from the convenience of your smartphone. You can buy the audio tours before your visit when you purchase your admission ticket online and play it on your device.
Alternatively, you can rent audio guide devices on site for a fee, subject to availability.
Entdecken Sie die Ausstellungen des Belvedere mit begleitenden Audiotouren.
Picture This! The Belvedere Collection from Cranach to Lassnig
Artists in their time: How does an era shape its art? How do artists respond to upheavals and crises while themselves being part of social developments? This presentation of the collection looks beyond a purely stylistic history of art to focus on the interactions between art and society. Discover eight hundred years of art history from the Middle Ages to the 1970s on this chronological tour through the world-famous collection of the Belvedere!
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until 31 December 2025
Upper Belvedere
32 audio stops, 60 min.
In international sign language: Picture This! The Belvedere Collection from Cranach to Lassnig
This video guide in international sign language was produced as a joint project between the Belvedere and the association for the deaf, WITAF. The interpreters (native signers) accompany you to selected works from the displays of the permanent collection at the Upper Belvedere. They tell you interesting facts and exciting stories about objects dating from the Middle Ages through to the 20th century.
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until 31 December 2025
Upper Belvedere
20 stops, 45 min.
In collaboration with
Archive: Amoako Boafo. Proper Love
What does Proper Love mean to you? Anna Gaberscik in conversation with Joy Adenike (community builder and activist in the Black Women’s Community), Abiona Esther Ojo (artist), Denise van de Cruz (writer, activist, and entrepreneur), and Sergey Harutoonian (curator). Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo portrays public figures, friends, and acquaintances—including Joy Adenike Breiner and Abiona Esther Ojo—creating expressive images of Black self-empowerment and self-perception.
This audio series was created in collaboration with the Im Museum podcast.
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until 31 December 2025
Lower Belvedere
5 episodes, 120 min.
Would you like to find out more about a particular theme? Our thematic audio tours take a closer look at specific topics.
Baroque jewel, place of power and politics, home to art: today the Belvedere is a world-class museum, a World Heritage Site, and an Austrian landmark. When Prince Eugene’s summer residence was built, the grounds were still outside the city walls of Vienna. Hundreds of gardeners tended the opulent Baroque park. On this tour you can find out about people’s lives here in the past, the decisions made here, and the role art has always played in the history of the Belvedere.
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until 31 December 2025
Upper Belvedere and Lower Belvedere
11 audio stops, 40 min.
In collaboration with
Turning the Page. Representations of Blackness
Who is (in)visible? Whose history do we remember? And how do images from the past influence our present? The free audio tour through the Belvedere by historian Tayla Myree focuses on representations of Black people in art. In-depth interviews with Nicole Fölß (art mediator), Simon Inou (journalist), and Vanessa Spanbauer (historian).
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until 31 December 2025
Lower Belvedere and Upper Belvedere
12 audio stops, 40 min.
3 bonus tracks, 60 min.
Museum Without Men with Katy Hessel
Take a fresh look at the Belvedere’s collection with acclaimed art historian Katy Hessel. The English-language audio tour “Museum Without Men” shines a spotlight on eleven striking works by women artists from different centuries, including Anna Maria Punz, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Maria Lassnig, and VALIE EXPORT. The tour offers fresh insights into feminist art history and highlights how women have influenced art.
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until 31 December 2025
Upper Belvedere and Belvedere 21
11 audio stops, 30 min.
Find out more about the various periods of art history and explore different parts of the Belvedere’s collection!
Miracles and Saints. Medieval Art
The earliest works in the Belvedere's collection have already survived for more than 800 years. Mainly intended for worship and to visually teach the Christian faith, they tell of transience, pain, consolation, and redemption. Discover sculptures, panel paintings, and winged altarpieces from the Middle Ages on the cusp of the Renaissance.
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until 31 December 2025
Upper Belvedere
12 audio stops, 30 min.
The Real and the Staged. Baroque, Neoclassical & Biedermeier Art
Is it all just show? Opulent Baroque works testify to the desire for prestige, but also to an increasingly scientific and realistic view of the world. This trend continued in Neoclassical and Biedermeier art. Everyday life also became a subject in art. Discover works by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Anna Maria Punz, Jacques Louis David, and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.
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until 31 December 2025
Upper Belvedere
25 audio stops, 60 min.
At the turn of the century, Vienna was a place of contrasts: capital of the Habsburg Empire, melting pot of numerous cultures, center for intellectuals and artists. At the same time, it was also a city of slums and political tensions. The art scene was changing radically, too. A new union of artists—the Secession—was founded in 1897 by Gustav Klimt and others. It marked the birth of Viennese Modernism. Discover works from this turbulent period by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Helene Funke, and Oskar Kokoschka.
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until 31 December 2025
Upper Belvedere
18 audio stops, 40 min.
Depths and New Beginnings. The Story of Modernism (1900–1970s)
The 20th century is marked by deep ruptures. These are also reflected in its art—for example in the search for a common language in non-representational art, in the distortion of reality in the face of emerging totalitarian regimes, or in the struggle for the future of art after the cataclysm of the Second World War. Discover works by Adolf Hölzel, Egon Schiele, Erika Giovanna Klien, Toyen, and Maria Lassnig.
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until 31 December 2025
Upper Belvedere
21 audio stops, 45 min.
Immerse yourself in the history of the works
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Please note that the online tour cannot be exchanged for an audio-guide device.
