If you are visiting Vienna, Austria in January, 2025 or early February, and love art, one of the places you should definitely head to is the Albertina Museum.
Not only is the world-class facility one of the best museums in Vienna, and features some of the best collections in Europe, it also puts on several new exhibitions every year, with 2025 being no exception.
One of its latest is a new Chagall Exhibition, which opened on September 28th, 2024 and runs through February 9th, 2025.
What can you see at the Marc Chagall Exhibition at the Albertina?
The latest exhibition is a collaboration between the Albertina Museum and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in Düsseldorf, Germany, and includes approximately 90 works of the late Russian-French artist.
Museum authorities stress the works represent every one of Chagall’s creative periods, which include Cubism, Surrealism, Fauvism and Suprematism and, of course, illustrate the classical modernist painter’s main themes — motherhood and birth, death, and love.
The paintings include everything from his earliest works to some of the last pieces he created in the early 1980s, before his death in 1985.
General Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder talks about Chagall
The Albertina has also released a short video with English subtitles from the museum’s General Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder, which showcases some of the paintings you can expect to see in the exhibition. (Watch below)
Schröder looks at Marc Chagall’s background from growing up as the eldest of nine children in a poor Jewish community in Russia (now today’s Belarus), to earning a scholarship to attend a Paris art school, to his burgeoning art career and beyond.
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He also explains the motifs that often appear in Chagall’s work, and how many of them are based on the artist’s own life.
Planning your visit to the Albertina Museum’s Chagall exhibition
The Albertina Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m, and on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 am to 9 pm.
You can buy tickets for entry to the museum, which includes the Chagall Exhibition, at the ticket desk or online in advance if you prefer to do so.
Tickets are priced at EUR 19,90 per person, with various discounts for adults under 26 years old and those above 65.
Best times to visit the Albertina Museum
In my experience, as a long-time visitor to the Albertina, I recommend avoiding the museum on weekends if you are able as it does get very busy.
Instead, visit the Albertina’s Chagall Exhibition early in the morning on a weekday, or after 4 pm as that is when things tend to be at their quietest.
How to get to the Albertina Museum
You will find the Albertina located at Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien (Vienna), between the State Opera at Kärntnerstraße, and the Vienna Hofburg. (see map bel0w)
Both the U-bahn (underground train) lines U1, U2, U4 (station: Karlsplatz/Oper) and U3 (station: Stephansplatz) are just around the corner.
If you prefer to take trams or buses, the trams that will get you there are the 1, 2, D, 62, 71, and the Lokalbahn Wien-Baden (stop: Kärntner Ring/Oper), while the 2A public bus stops at the Albertina stop.
You can find more information about the Chagall Exhibition and the Albertina Museum on its official website.
