First to the museum, then an excellent meal: artistic and culinary pleasures combine with maximum pleasure in Vienna’s museums.

The Natural History Museum organizes a culinary Wednesday in its domed hall and offers either a mussel or asparagus dinner, depending on the season. The breathtaking view across Vienna from the roof of the museum is best booked at the same time.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum also organizes gourmet evenings every Thursday, that includes a visit to the museum. Art and dining are also offered by the Belvedere. The tour of the special exhibition or to highlights of the collection is supplemented with appropriate dishes.

A visit to Schönbrunn Palace can also be combined with dinner. Depending on your choice, the “Evening in Schönbrunn” package includes a tour of the palace, dinner in the Café-Restaurant Residenz and a concert.

The Salonplafond restaurant in the MAK – the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, is also well worth a visit. With its imposing historic ceiling (to which the restaurant’s name refers) and many design elements such as furniture by Josef Frank and chairs by Oswald Haerdtl and Ernst Schwadron, the restaurant fits perfectly into the MAK.

Accommodated very nobly, namely in the same classical palace and Vienna’s biggest exhibition house, the Albertina, is “Do & Co Albertina”, which apart from ambitious cuisine offers a delightful sidewalk café with a view of the Burggarten.

After a visit to the Leopold Museum with its masterpieces of Austrian Modernism, including the world’s biggest Egon Schiele collection, the museum’s Café Leopold beckons with delights of Asian and Viennese cuisine.