Belvedere
Sign in to saveAlso known as Osterreichische Gallery, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Austrian National Gallery, Belvedere Gallery, Belvedere Museum, Kaiserlich Königlichen Bilder Gallerie in Wien
museum housed in the Belvedere palace, Vienna, Austria
Key facts
- Established
- 1903 ( 1903 )
- Location
- Prinz Eugen-Straße 27, Vienna , Austria
- Type
- Art museum
- Visitors
- 1,154,031 (2016)
- Director
- Stella Rollig
- Website
- www.belvedere.at/en
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Archive
- Founded
- 1903
- Location
- Vienna, Austria
- Status
- Active
ISNI 0000 0001 2259 9294
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Encyclopedic overview
The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is a museum housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria.
The Belvedere palaces were the summer residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). The ensemble was built in the early eighteenth century by the famous Baroque architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, and comprises the Upper and Lower Belvedere, with the Orangery and Palace Stables, as well as extensive gardens.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Belvedere” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.