Cafe Landtmann

Bahur-Tov is one of Vienna's oldest kosher restaurants. Located on Taborstraße in the Jewish district of Leopoldstadt, this restaurant is popular with the local and international Jewish community, as well as with Austrians and travelers seeking a menu with a wide selection of regional, Middle Eastern, Jewish, and international dishes. Also a location for events involving 10 to 200 people .

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Café Landtmann is a traditional Viennese café founded by Franz Landtmann on 1 October 1873 who came from a family of coffeehouse owners, gingerbread bakers, and fig coffee manufacturers. The café occupies the ground floor of the Palais Lieben-Auspitz, which is near the Burgtheater, the University of Vienna, the Town Hall with the Rathauspark, and the Federal Chancellery. As a result of its location, the café is a popular meeting place for actors, politicians, officials, and journalists, and is often the scene of press conferences. Historically, Vienna’s famous coffee houses were spots for creative thinkers to debate politics and ideas. In 2011, UNESCO declared Vienna’s cafes a cultural treasure, calling them places “where time and space are consumed, but only the coffee is found on the bill.” Sigmund Freud and Gustave Mahler were regulars at the famous Cafe Landtmann– also the old haunts of Vienna’s Jewish intelligentsia. Hours: Mon - Sun 7:30 a.m. - 11 p.m.

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The Jewish Museum of Vienna offers a deep dive into the history and culture of Jews in Vienna and across Europe. The museum’s two locations — the Dorotheergasse and the Judenplatz — feature extensive collections of religious artifacts, historical documents, and contemporary art. The exhibitions chronicle the Jewish experience from medieval times to the present day, providing a comprehensive understanding of the community’s resilience and contributions. Visitors can observe personal stories unveiled through the museum’s exhibits, which highlight not only suffering but also innovation, art, and scholarship. The museum serves as a vital educational resource, bridging the gap between generations and fostering discussions on tolerance and acceptance in contemporary society. On display are the religious, cultural and social living conditions of Vienna’s Jews in the Middle Ages, through to their expulsion and the destruction of the so-called “Wiener Gesera” in 1420-1421. The foundations of the medieval era synagogue destroyed then. Selected excavation findings can be seen in the museum’s subterranean rooms.

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The Sigmund Freud Museum covering Sigmund Freud's life story is located in the former home and practice of the founder of psychoanalysis in Vienna. The Sigmund Freund Museum offers insights into Freund's life and work and the history of psychoanalysis itself. It preserves the historic building, displays original rooms, and features a conceptual art collection, permanent and temporary exhibitions, a library, and the Sigmund Freud Archive, with the history of the house during the Nazi era also highlighted. The building was newly built in 1891 when Freud moved there. The previous building on the site had been torn down. His old rooms, where he lived for 47 years and produced the majority of his writings, now house a documentary centre to his life and works. The influence of psychoanalysis on art and society is displayed through a program of special exhibitions and a modern art collection. The museum consists of Freud's former practice and a part of his old private quarters. Attached to the museum are Europe's largest psychoanalytic research library, with 35,000 volumes, and the research institute of the Sigmund Freud Foundation. The display includes original items owned by Freud, the practice's waiting room, and parts of Freud's extensive antique collection. However, his famous couch is now in the Freud Museum in London, along with most of the original furnishings, as Freud was able to take his furniture with him when he emigrated. (In 1938 Freud was forced to leave German-annexed Austria due to his Jewish ancestry, and fled to London.) Hours: Wednesday to Monday & holiday 10am-6pm Tuesday: closed

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