Kunsthistorisches Museum tickets: €22 online for a timed slot, €24 at the museum, and €32 with the Imperial Treasury

💡 The Short Version: A ticket is €22 online and €24 at the museum (€19 reduced, free under 19), and since 8 September 2026 every ticket is for a reserved time slot, with no limit on how long you stay. The museum is open daily in October, November and December (10:00 to 18:00, Thursdays to 21:00). The Imperial Treasury in the Hofburg is a separate timed ticket at €16 and closed on Tuesdays, and the “Habsburg Treasures” combination is €32. Buy only at shop.khm.at/tickets, which the museum names as the only source of original tickets. Or book: Kunsthistorisches Museum Day Admissionad on GetYourGuide is at the museum’s €22 online price.

The tickets, compared

Prices are the adult rate from the museum’s visit page and the Treasury’s admission page.

• Guided tours: programme tours cost €3 to €6 on top of entry. A private 60-minute tour is €100 and a 90-minute tour €155.
• Audio guide: €6, €8 for the “Take 2” version and €9 for the family version, in ten languages.
• The combined ticket with the Leopold Museum is €37, the Leopold’s own “Leopold + KHM” price.

How to buy

• Online at shop.khm.at/tickets. The ticket is emailed to you, so check your spam folder. The museum warns that fake websites sell counterfeit tickets.
• A slot is the entry. The ticket covers one entry on the date and time you choose.

The ceiling of the entrance hall. Photo: Herbert Frank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Tours worth paying for

The museum’s own audio guide and programme tours are the cheapest ways to add commentary. The GetYourGuide products below sell the same entry and combinations at the museum’s prices. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

Day admission

From €22 · 4,581 reviews

Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum Day Admission Ticketad is the museum’s online price, so booking here costs nothing extra.

The museum and the Imperial Treasury

From €32 · 881 reviews · 2 hours

Combination Ticket: Kunsthistorisches Museum & Imperial Treasuryad is the museum’s €32 “Habsburg Treasures” price. Both the museum and the Treasury need timed slots.

The museum and the Leopold Museum

From €37 · 420 reviews

Vienna: Kunsthistorisches and Leopold Museum Combination Ticketad matches the Leopold’s own €37 combination. The Leopold is closed on Tuesdays.

What to see

The Picture Gallery has more than 770 works over four centuries, and the Kunstkammer is on the ground floor. Take the Picture Gallery first and the Kunstkammer after it.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum across Maria-Theresien-Platz. Photo: Dozor, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The Picture Gallery. Room X has Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Tower of Babel and Peasant Wedding, and the gallery also holds his Hunters in the Snow (1565). Room XII has Vermeer’s The Art of Painting, Rembrandt’s Small Self-Portrait and Ruisdael’s The Great Forest. Room 10 has Velázquez’s Infanta Margarita in a Blue Dress, and Room 8 has Arcimboldo’s Summer.
2. The Kunstkammer (about 1.5 hours on average). On the ground floor, about 2,200 objects of gold, silver, ivory, coral and precious stones, with automata, watches and scientific instruments, in 20 themed spaces. Benvenuto Cellini’s salt cellar is among its highlights.
3. The Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection, the Greek and Roman antiquities and the Coin Cabinet. The Coin Cabinet holds about 600,000 objects.

What to skip: the antiquities, if you have one visit. The Picture Gallery and the Kunstkammer are the two collections the museum puts first.

Glass vessels in a Kunstkammer case. Photo: GFreihalter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Imperial Treasury is a separate visit in the Hofburg Schweizerhof: the Austrian Imperial Crown, the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, the coronation robes and the treasure of the Order of the Golden Fleece. See the Sisi Museum and Hofburg guide for the other Hofburg tickets.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Hours: 10:00 to 18:00, and until 21:00 on Thursdays. Rooms are cleared 15 minutes before closing. The café-restaurant is open 10:00 to 17:30, and until 20:30 on Thursdays.
• Holidays 2026: open 10:00 to 18:00 on 26 October, 31 October, 1 and 2 November, 11 and 15 November, 6 and 8 December and 21 to 23 and 25 to 28 December. On 24 December it closes at 15:00, and on 31 December it stays open to 21:00. It is also open on 1 and 6 January 2027.
• Cloakroom: free, for outerwear, umbrellas and bags, with lockers. There is no luggage storage.
• Photography: for private, non-commercial use, with no flash or tripod. Signs mark works where photography is banned.
• Getting there: the main entrance is on Maria-Theresien-Platz. The step-free entrance is at Burgring 5. From the Hauptbahnhof take tram D to Burgring/Kunsthistorisches Museum, and from the Westbahnhof take the U3 to Volkstheater.
• Treasury hours: daily except Tuesday, 9:00 to 17:30, with admission until 17:00.

The Belvedere is the other big art ticket and sells timed slots too. Vienna museums covers the Albertina, the Leopold Museum and the smaller ones with their closed days. What to book before you go to Vienna has the table of closed days, and Vienna Pass or Vienna City Card says what the passes cover. Schönbrunn Palace and the Spanish Riding School complete the Habsburg set. 3 days in Vienna puts the museum on day three. Vienna walking tours compares the guided walks, and Vienna public transport has the fares for the U3. To stay nearby, see where to stay in Vienna.