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[S1E11] Vienna's Museum Marvels

• edelwisecrackers • Season 1 • Episode 11

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Have you ever wondered just how many museums Vienna really has? Join us as we embark on a whimsical yet informative discussion about Vienna's museum landscape. From the playful debate over whether there are over 100 or even 200 museums, to Dr. Schnitzel's childhood memories and recent escapades, this episode promises a delightful blend of humor and history. We'll even have a lighthearted chat about language quirks, like when to use "it's" versus "it is." It's a perfect mix of fun and facts!

Our adventure continues as we shine a spotlight on the Vienna Museum, highlighting its unique role in chronicling the city's history. We'll debate whether sites like St. Stephen's crypt should be considered museums and reflect on how history can be preserved in unexpected ways, including through our very own podcast. Plus, we invite you to share your favorite museums and what you think truly defines a museum—because who doesn't love a good historical debate?

Get ready for a virtual tour of some of Vienna's most captivating museums! From the awe-inspiring steam locomotive at the Technical Museum to the regal rooms of Schönbrunn Palace, we'll take you on a journey through time and culture. We'll share our thoughts on the Military History Museum's significant artifacts and even play a game identifying museums by their starting letters, unearthing some quirky finds along the way. With 104+ museums to explore, come laugh and learn with us on Schnitz and Giggles!

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Mr. Giggles:

Let's just do that. Let's just say hey, we just got back from a field trip today. Are we recording?

Dr. Schnitzel:

I just hit record. Yes, all right. Hey, we just got back from a field trip.

Mr. Giggles:

Welcome to another episode of Schnitz and Giggles podcast. I'm Michael, I'm Lukas and, as we may or may not have mentioned already, depending on where we start the recording, we just got back from a field trip to a museum.

Dr. Schnitzel:

From a museum back to the studio right here.

Mr. Giggles:

It's a full day. It's a full day, a full day of work for the old delwisecrackers.

Dr. Schnitzel:

But K-pop saved us from just breaking down.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah, the one thing that I think there's probably more of than museums is K-pop stars. I guess you're right, which I don't know. I mean a little bit of a little bit of research we were doing right now.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I think I didn't record that part.

Mr. Giggles:

Uh, you just found the best, strangest number they put on the website yeah, we were doing a little bit of quick research here to figure out how many museums are in vienna, because we do know that there's quite a few and it seems like lists vary because there's a lot of smaller museums, maybe some berserk museums as well. Berserk yeah, they all go berserk. They're going crazy, not berserk. Oh, berserk, berserk, berserk. Yeah, sorry, berserker museums.

Mr. Giggles:

Those are in a different part of the European continent, the Batsiak. So those are smaller ones that maybe aren't counted, but who knows? But our first discovery was maybe that there was over 100. Right.

Dr. Schnitzel:

My first discovery was there was 200.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah.

Dr. Schnitzel:

And the website said there's around 200.

Mr. Giggles:

So it could be around 200. It could be 100 plus, which could be anywhere from 100 to 199, as we know how numbers work, but I just found a website that says there is 104 plus. So seems like an oddly specific number to add a plus to.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Yeah, what can I imagine when someone tells me it's 104 plus?

Mr. Giggles:

I mean 105. Whoa, never thought of that. That tells me that there's plus I'm 105 whoa, never thought of that. That tells me that there's probably 104 museums. But the author of this was like, oh, maybe there could be another one or two. I don't want to be called out for my exactly, I think.

Dr. Schnitzel:

The website that I found it says there's around 200 museums. So well, there's 104. Let's round up the numbers. Yeah, they're like that's close enough.

Mr. Giggles:

What's the closest?

Dr. Schnitzel:

what's the next after 100 for what's 200?

Mr. Giggles:

in any case, there's a lot of museums in vienna, I have noticed. In your life, lucas, have you? Have you seen many of these 200 or so museums?

Dr. Schnitzel:

I don't know an exact number, I have to say is it 23 plus? I guess it's. It might, might 23 plus. It might be 27 minus. You never say that right.

Mr. Giggles:

No, you wouldn't ever. You never say that.

Dr. Schnitzel:

No people don't say that you never say it's plus.

Mr. Giggles:

I've gone to less than 27 museums.

Dr. Schnitzel:

You can say I went to more than 10 museums, sure. Or you can say I went to 10 plus museums.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Interesting. Interesting with how things work one way or the other. It's the same with the word it's, because sometimes you can say it's, but sometimes you have to say it is. Yeah, have you noticed that, sure I?

Mr. Giggles:

mean, I guess, I guess you're the english speaker. Isn't really where my my brain was going right now, but so how many museums do you think you've got today?

Dr. Schnitzel:

I'm not done yet, man. Yeah, because you haven't answered the question. I'm just. I'm just the middle of some epiphany, that's okay I had five years ago.

Mr. Giggles:

Okay, sometimes you say it's and sometimes you say it is because you have to say it is what it is.

Dr. Schnitzel:

You couldn't say it's what it's. You couldn't say that it's what's, it's what's. That would be the shortest.

Mr. Giggles:

It's a new thing it is starting a new it's what's, yes, it's. Well, it's crazy.

Dr. Schnitzel:

You wouldn't really say it's what's, it's what's I guess you could, but people know what you mean, that you actually mean. It is what it is no, but you know it's. It is. People don't understand what I'm saying.

Mr. Giggles:

It's what's.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Okay, good, did you know that before is was is, is was was?

Mr. Giggles:

Are you purposely not wanting to answer the question of how many enemies you've got? Yeah, I'm just buying some time here.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I'm just stalling here because I don't know what you're stalling for. I don't know, it's Joseph Stalin, maybe.

Mr. Giggles:

So this is all scripted by the way.

Dr. Schnitzel:

We're reading off a stack of papers here.

Mr. Giggles:

We sure are. So does that stack of papers tell you how many museums you've gone to or are you going to? I'm?

Dr. Schnitzel:

just going to avoid the question. No, I think I've been. It's certainly more than 20 museums. So 30 minus 30 minus, yeah, could also be. Well, it's definitely 100 minus Okay, could be 30 plus even. I don't know, I didn't keep count. A lot of museums I've been to. I was forced to go to since I grew up here.

Mr. Giggles:

It's probably true for most museum visitors, like on the whole.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Whenever you go to a museum, half the people there are forced to be there. Oh, probably more than half.

Mr. Giggles:

More than half, yeah, you think a family of four. Two of them actually want to go to the museum.

Dr. Schnitzel:

It's probably just the one person's like we're going.

Mr. Giggles:

So that's more than half. None the dad, two out of four. Well, that's what I'm saying. More than two of them. So it's two plus so it's more than half, is what I'm saying. Well, more than half. Three minus 75% of the people probably are forced to meet.

Dr. Schnitzel:

There's probably three of the four out of the family that do not want to go to the museum, but you said two want to be there and two don't want to be here.

Mr. Giggles:

No, I said it's unlikely that even two out of the family.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I missed the unlikely part, okay.

Mr. Giggles:

Well, I may or may not have said it, it's what's. I may or may not have said it, it's what's, it's what's Okay. Okay, so you were forced to go to museums yes, as every young Austrian probably shares the experience. Yes and then we become proud of that because we are so rich in museum experiences that we seem to know everything. Well, today we perpetuated that action of forcing people to go to museums.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Yeah, I did. I just passed on the baton to the next generation. You go to the museum with me or else? Yeah, so we just been there with a bunch of students. They did great, they had some assignments and in the meantime we were able to look at a museum.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah, had a nice morning walking around learning about the city of Vienna For any of you who might be visiting. Did we mention which museum we actually went to? I mean, I just did, did you? I missed a lot. Museum of Vienna, okay, so this is specifically not a no, okay, because it's.

Dr. Schnitzel:

It's actually the Vienna Museum, not a museum Of Vienna, Of Vienna. Vienna Museum, not a museum of Vienna Because there's so many other museums in Vienna. That's what I'm just trying to specify here, because we need some order here. Oh my goodness.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah, so we went to the museum that speaks and documents and even screams at times. It screams the history of the city of Vienna.

Dr. Schnitzel:

That's a very much much the history of the city of vienna.

Mr. Giggles:

That's a very much, much better definition of the museum we just, yeah, came back from which, for those of you who may be visiting, as I was going to start to say, is that it's a free museum for the most part. There's a couple of special exhibits that you might have to pay for if you want to see it, but the if you want to upgrade if you want to upgrade, you know, like any good capitalist system, we're going to upsell you.

Mr. Giggles:

So you know, give you a little bit of something for free, gets you a taste, and then you want to buy. You just want to know more. You want to know more about vienna so you buy the extra tour package, although I must say, for being a free museum, excellently well done, thank you you're welcome.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Thank you, our tax dollars work. No, you're welcome because you you are the expat in my city here, yeah, but I just want to welcome you here man Well thank you, I appreciate it.

Mr. Giggles:

You're so welcoming. True Viennese fashion.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I try to be as welcoming as possible.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah, yeah, I think most of the. I think this is only embarrassingly so. This is only the third museum that I think I've actually walked through here in Vienna, so I should probably, so you've been to four minus museums.

Mr. Giggles:

I've actually walked through here in Vienna, so I should probably. So you've been to four minus museums. I've been to four minus museums and every single one of them I mean. I wasn't forced to because I didn't make the choice to do it, but I was doing the forcing, you were doing the forcing. They were all field trip related.

Dr. Schnitzel:

So you never went just for pleasure. It was either part of your job or you were chaperoning, yeah doing my volunteering duties.

Mr. Giggles:

Uh yeah, I don't think I've ever just on a day decided that, hey, we're gonna go to a museum. Not because I don't like to do that, I think probably just don't want to pay 40 euros to get into a museum. Not that they're all that expensive.

Dr. Schnitzel:

But sometimes I mean I know what you're saying sometimes, when I thought, hey, maybe a museum would be a good thing to go to, I look at at the prices and I'm thinking hmm, yeah, do I want to spend it. It takes a little bit of thought and planning 14 euros, 18 euros still To just walk around for a little bit, just walk around a couple of old rooms.

Mr. Giggles:

I suppose that living in the city it would certainly be a nice way to spend a couple hours walking around, but I think in some ways this entire city is kind of like a museum. In kind of like a museum in some ways there's enough history that is preserved and and kind of just there and you can walk into. So many of the churches are now essentially kind of museums to how people worshiped and so you can just kind of walk into those for the most part.

Mr. Giggles:

Ah, no, no five minus oh, five minutes I've been to four I guess it depends on how you, how you, classify a museum I think it's the same thing as in there are around 200 museums, or 104 museums, or 400 plus museums. How do you find a museum With the crypt underneath the….

Dr. Schnitzel:

St Stephen's.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah, St Stephen's Dome. Would that be considered a museum or is it just a tour of a thing?

Dr. Schnitzel:

It's a good question because I mean, is the whole church a museum? I mean it's still a running church, it's up and running. Yeah, I mean it's still a running church, it's up and running, still active. It's an active church Used for church things, although the crypt, as far as I know, is not used anymore, so you cannot be buried.

Mr. Giggles:

Well, it's still used, but not with new. It's occupied.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Yeah, no, new residents, former residents. So, in a way, what's the definition of museum? Is a museum something you just have an exhibition of something that is over? It's just a thing from the past, because then the crypt would be a museum by that definition. Sure.

Mr. Giggles:

And the act of a museum of preserving something that's already happened and giving maybe some insight as to the reasons why certain things happened. It seemed like that was happening a bit at the Vienna Museum today, happening a bit at the the vienna museum today. Is that there? There is some like editorial comments.

Mr. Giggles:

It seems like you know this was a bad point in history or something, and it doesn't just state the fact, so it is trying to, you know, pass on some sort of perspective for history. So so in that case, I mean, there's podcasts could be museums, because any podcast you listen to is from the past.

Mr. Giggles:

You mean well if they are history podcasts, I mean. That's kind of a a way of documenting history and it's an audio museum. Yeah, what a nice thought. Yeah, maybe we could start doing that. Just do a whole series of us walking through museums and talking to talking to people, talking to talking to paintings hello, hello painting. You're quite lifelike, yeah. So what is a museum? What is a museum? Curious question. Well, dear listener, you can share your perspective on what a museum is. Out of the 30 minus 20 plus museums that you've gone to, what would you say is your favorite museum in vienna?

Dr. Schnitzel:

I think the most fascinating for kids especially when you were a kid and even for adults, is the technisches museum, museum of technology, and has some cool stuff in there, and some of it is very interactive, since anything that technical some way or the other is moving has moving parts. You can do a lot of these things there that you can just try, experiment around and that's so.

Mr. Giggles:

That's pretty cool and one of the the ball with the electrical current that, yes, it all comes out to your hand, or whatever.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Yeah it has one of the oldest cars ever built in there, for example, because there was a guy his last name was Marcus and he basically built a car around the same time as the Germans did. So they've been debating who was actually the first to build the car and, as research now says, it's probably the Germans were one year ahead or so?

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah, Otherwise we'd all be driving Marcus mobiles around.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Exactly so. Instead of benz matthias, benz would be marcus mobiles oh, you got a sick new marcus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So much horsepower, yes, yeah. Well, the things could have been, but you cannot ride on. Ride that car. Unfortunately, it does have the largest steam locomotive ever built in, like austrian built. It was so heavy that they had to reinforce the floor of the museum, otherwise you would have probably dropped to the floor, and so it's huge. It's really impressive when you stand next to it. It's really something.

Mr. Giggles:

Well, the next field trip you organize that you asked me to chaperone, I think.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I think that's a good one to be there, yeah, so, but I say it's probably the most impressive one as in it's most interactive, it's more, there's lots of moving parts. And the second favorite one is the one that's the natural history, the Naturhistorisches Museum. That's a mouthful, which. The favorite room of every kid is the dinosaur room. Of course, I'd say those were the two ones when I was a kid, my two favorite ones when I was a kid, I wonder. These days, lately, I've been impressed with the Belvedere Museum a lot. So that's just an art gallery Because you're fancy now, because I'm fancy, yes, yeah, some of the most expensive paintings that austria owns are found in the belvedere.

Mr. Giggles:

That is the crazy thing about some of these museums is that they're located in places where the outside is just as impressive at certain times of year to walk around, yeah, and so you often find yourself around these museums and kind of in the vicinity, but it's nice enough to stay outside. That's kind of. The cool thing about the city is that as you walk through the various courtyards and streets, you're looking at things that are impressive enough, and that. I visited Belvedere a number of times, but it's always only in the gardens and outside.

Dr. Schnitzel:

You never went inside so far.

Mr. Giggles:

Never gone inside. That's not one of the five minus. How unfortunate.

Dr. Schnitzel:

It really pays off.

Mr. Giggles:

You need to start going inside a little bit more.

Dr. Schnitzel:

But what you're saying is very accurate. You can take a look at the nice castle. You can walk around those gardens Beautiful, especially in the spring and summertime there's lots of flowers and then you can also go inside, if you pay a little extra, and look at famous art side. If you pay a little extra and look at famous art, yeah, the belvedere is always something to enjoy. You know, what else I enjoyed a lot was the schoenbrunn the castle. That's actually also museum, okay. So all right.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Oh, the numbers are rising, five plus now five plus now, yeah, we're at five plus, so what were the ones that you were thinking of?

Mr. Giggles:

yourself. So I have. I've gone to the the rome museum, but we're in vienna. You're in Vienna, yeah.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Why is it Rome Museum?

Mr. Giggles:

Roman Museum sorry, Römer Museum.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Römer, römer If you hear a Römer about Römer, what did that out?

Mr. Giggles:

And I've gone to the Military History Museum and I have gone to the Vienna Museum. And the, the crypt, if we're counting the crypt and schoenbrunn, and schoenbrunn and I'm sure as we talk, I'll remember another museum that I went to, but for right now I'm counting five yeah, that's cool what I was gonna say about the schoenbrunn pass great, okay, fine, okay. What do you like about schoenbrunn?

Dr. Schnitzel:

so much okay, thank you glad that you're asking that they take you through all those rooms that the emperor family has lived in, and just thinking that it was just a regular bedroom yeah, the Kaiser was sleeping there, and now he's just walking through.

Mr. Giggles:

It's some kind of strange experience, yeah, to consider that normal life was happening there, and now it's just a bunch of tourists walking through and taking pictures, 75% of whom don't want to be in that they're forced to be there, which probably about 75% of the residents of the palace probably didn't want to be there, or the people working there back in the day, not a day in the palace.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I hope I won't lose my head.

Mr. Giggles:

Well, thanks for asking. I think the favorite museum that I've gone to is the Military Museum, because I think that, being a history teacher, that was one that I went to a couple times for a field trip and just some of the pretty important events that have happened over the years that are connected to Vienna and Austria, events that have happened over the years that are connected to vienna and austria.

Mr. Giggles:

The car that franz ferdinand was in when he got assassinated, that that is just sitting there with the bullet holes, um yeah unchanged yeah that it's been preserved for so long and it's just sitting there in the middle of a hall and you just walk by and it is kind of that surreal feeling right of like a person died. Two people died in this car yeah, that's strange enough at least, but which started a war where millions of people died and that changed the world and it changed the, the political structure of europe, and and the modern nation state really emerged.

Mr. Giggles:

And then now we're just walking by it yeah, that's car, it's just and a lot of people walking by not even fully realizing oh, what a nice old car.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Yeah, oh, wow that's.

Mr. Giggles:

Wow, that's an old car. Yeah, when you get into those museums that have, I mean because paintings are obviously really cool to look at, especially when they're documenting something or they're known as, like specific works that are that should be looked at, but they're still just a representation of what somebody was seeing when, like, the actual thing is there. I think those types of museums are very interesting thing is there.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I think those types of museums are very interesting.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah, when you see that it's the regional one. Yeah, some of the suits of armor that were worn, you know, in the 1600s and they're now displayed for us to see and get a feel that people did actually wear these things is kind of an interesting thing to consider. All right, Are there any museums that are kind of on your wish list, my wish list that you hope to get to?

Dr. Schnitzel:

Yes, so you'd mentioned that every Bezirk, every district, has a museum. Yeah, it's also cool, since the Vienna Museum we've just been at couldn't take all those things that have been happening in Vienna. There are some cool objects to look at, so I've been to one or two or three of those in the past years and then they talk more about you know who lived in this district and what special events took place here and there, and there might be some unique object as well that made history at least local history, vienna history. So I haven't been to all museums that are out there. Maybe that's something that's kind of a life goal I should achieve as a Viennese Hit all the district museums.

Mr. Giggles:

Hit all the district museums. Seems like that's an achievable goal. It's achievable, yes.

Dr. Schnitzel:

So if you do two per month, you can do it within a year. It's true, you can do 12 plus in half a year, it's true, but other than that, the problem is there are so many museums in Vienna, and it doesn't matter if it's 104 or close to 200. The number itself seems that has the label museum on it. And it's back again to the question what really makes a museum a museum? The amount of a museum, seems just so.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah, completely impossible to think that you could actually go to all of those. Yeah.

Dr. Schnitzel:

And again, what I was just referring to is when is a museum a museum, since some museums just are an apartment and it says Beethoven lived here.

Mr. Giggles:

I've been to the Sigmund Freud Museum.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Oh, sigmund Freud hofen lived here. I've been to the sigmund freud museum, oh, sigmund, for. Yeah. So five plus sigmund, five perfect, five plus plus man. If we keep doing this podcast, the numbers are rising.

Dr. Schnitzel:

We keep talking, I'm gonna be at 10 we won't finish this episode before we get to 10, but what's really funny, for example, is one of the beethoven museums I think there's there's more than one is just one where it's just his apartment and has a piano in there and some old furniture. That's it, and the last time I think I was there was maybe 15 years ago or maybe is that the one we were outside of when we were eating schnitzel yeah, yeah, that's the, that's the place.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Yeah, we could have gone in. We could have gone in probably because I was gonna say, just to see that apartment back in the day, the price was one euro. Wow, so you pay one euro. Maybe it's two years by now I haven't checked prices just recently but it's great to see, while you're walking on the same floor, that Beethoven walked. That's kind of a crazy, crazy feel.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Yeah, and Mozart and others. There's a couple of buildings in the inner city that state Mozart lived here. There's one house that has it says on the outside in this building Mozart. This is where he held his first public performance. It's not a museum, but so many buildings could be museums for that matter.

Mr. Giggles:

Right, there's enough buildings throughout the city that have those types of plaques or the little thing above it with the flag that says either somebody was born here somebody died here somebody lived here. So in that way, the whole city ends up being a museum, because you end up seeing all these places that were used for life, whatever, Good point.

Dr. Schnitzel:

That could be 200, 300 plus it could if we count all those things.

Mr. Giggles:

If we count all those things, it could be at the top of those lists. Do you want to play a?

Dr. Schnitzel:

game that I just came up with.

Mr. Giggles:

Oh boy, I'm sure this is.

Dr. Schnitzel:

It's a game where everyone wins once again. All right, because we were just preparing before this recording. Looking at museums, I told you there's a list of museums, alphabetical order.

Mr. Giggles:

Yeah, okay.

Dr. Schnitzel:

And I was just thinking if you just tell me, you tell me one letter, a letter, and I'll tell you what kind of museums there are in Vienna. Okay, there's, only should I tell you which letters do not exist, or should we make it a little more exciting? I mean I kind of figured that there would be a museum for every letter. Well, there's not, unfortunately, there are four letters missing from the alphabet. Which four are those? Is this the game? This is the qualification for the game.

Mr. Giggles:

Well, since you already told me, I feel like it'd be kind of a it's whether I can remember.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Did I tell you all four? Well, q, there's no museum starting with a Q, no museum, starting with a Q.

Mr. Giggles:

I believe you also said X and Z.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I said X, but not Z oh Y why?

Mr. Giggles:

Because there's no Z.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Or because there is a Z. That's why you said no, it's like a Y, y, x and Y, x and Y, x and Y. I don't know X and I yes. So I did tell you that. Yeah, okay, and I remembered. Okay, your brain is still functioning really well For now.

Mr. Giggles:

For now at least, you told me that, like 20 minutes ago, after this episode of the movie. It wasn't that long, so short-term memory, okay. So how about the letter M?

Dr. Schnitzel:

let's see, there is a Männergesangsverein Museum. Okay, so that's a long word. And how do you know that Männergesangsverein Museum it's also I'm just making sense of the list here. I think that's what it talks about. It talks about Geschichte des Chores.

Mr. Giggles:

So like it's a men's choir museum.

Dr. Schnitzel:

There seems to be. So Verein is the word for some association or some club, in this case a choir. Männergesang is men's singing. It's the Men's Singing Club Museum. Sweet, where is this located? Let me just check, if I can see. So it was founded in's in 1843. I mean, the whole choir was founded and it's still active, that's obvious.

Mr. Giggles:

Is that what, uh, what all the people who are in the vienna boys choir graduate into you might think, maybe not, I guess we'd have to go to the museum to find out where is this located okay, it's in the busendorfer strasse in the first district.

Dr. Schnitzel:

That's the one that's right next to the viennese philharmonic the concert hall, if you ever watch the new year's concert where the orchestra is playing yeah, on pbs for all you listeners in the united states. Nice, I didn't know that yeah, so that's kind of uh one of the places just uh next door okay, all right.

Mr. Giggles:

so if you're interested in men's choirs, then you can go to that. All right, how about the letter?

Dr. Schnitzel:

J. There's also Mozart House, of course. Just for the letter M yes, so letter J yeah, johann Strauss Wohnung.

Mr. Giggles:

Okay, go check out his apartment, that'd be fun.

Dr. Schnitzel:

That's where the Donauwalze was written in that apartment.

Mr. Giggles:

So the blue Danube waltz, so do they have it being played All the time, all the time, and the neighbors go crazy that still live in this building.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I have no idea where this one is. Well, it's in the Praterstrasse, which makes sense that he would live close to the Prater, since this would be one of those areas where lots of entertainments took place and he was an entertainer. This was the Judisches Museum, the Jewish museum.

Dr. Schnitzel:

And one Jose, the jewish museum and one josefinum, a museum for the history of medicine in vienna. Well then, how about l l, l, l l? That's the leopold museum. That's part of the museum's quartier. Okay, yeah, it has the largest schiele collection in the world. So egon schiele being around the same time as gustav klimt, so any art around 1900. One of the largest collections, and for that particular artist it's the largest in the whole world.

Mr. Giggles:

I guess that's the cool thing about the way Vienna is set up currently is that there's a whole lot of museums within walking distance of each other. I mean, you've got the Museums Quartier that has 12 museums, I think it is Might be even 12 plus, I don't know. It could be 12 plus, but I think it is 12. It's 15 minus I plus. I don't know, it could be 12 plus, but I think it is 12, it's 15, I think if I've walked.

Dr. Schnitzel:

I've looked at the little list there with the little model that's in front of the entryway. There's a special kids museum as well which is very recommendable yeah for even smaller kids so they can do all the fun stuff over there.

Mr. Giggles:

So the museum's quartier is one of the big places, and then there's the other big museums around I think the, the, the museum I'd kind of like to go to is the welt museum, if I understand correctly. That's like they've got a lot of maps and and things like that. Is that right like a lot of globes? It's kind of connected to the, to the hoof book, yeah yeah, it's so in the hoof book.

Dr. Schnitzel:

In the palace there are at least three museums, maybe four. Uh, let's say three, plus to be on the safe side, killing that bit this is so. This will never grow old. What I was gonna say is so yeah, there's. There are a couple of museums in there, and the veiled museum being one of them. I've never been to that one. That's one of the my, one of the ones on my list to go to. Have you been there?

Mr. Giggles:

that's why I just said I'd like to go oh, I thought, like am I are you even?

Dr. Schnitzel:

listening to me. Well, you say I'd like to go there, and then you talk about it and you know everything that's there, about everything. I don't know everything, I mean I I know what the museum is.

Mr. Giggles:

It's all I was describing. That's why I'd like to go there, because of all the maps.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Okay, I like maps what I was talking about concerning this museum was. I think it also gives you an insight on how the Austrian or European perspective on the world used to be. We briefly talked about exotic people, right, the way they would categorize them or describe them.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Often it would come down to some racist things as well. The way things were back then. So that would give you some insight on how did we view way. The way things were back then. So that would give you some insight on how did we view the rest of the world back then yeah maybe one day there'll be a museum about us, how we view the world today I'm sure I mean already in the.

Mr. Giggles:

The wien museum today was already the kind of the ending part of it is talking a little bit about how vienna is today and the the expansion of the city and things like that.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Right, it ends in the present times and city development and some outlook into the future. Yeah.

Mr. Giggles:

All right. Well, it sounds like we have a good list of museums that you and I can go visit. The only thing that could potentially be more boring than going to a museum is listening to you guys talk about museums. So sorry about it everybody, but hopefully there's enough interest in some of these things because there are some really cool recordings of history and the way life was to see in these museums. So get out there and check out some museums.

Dr. Schnitzel:

There's a Globe Museum as well. I think that's the one I want to see, maybe that's the one that you're referring to in the national library, because the welt museum and the globe museum are two different things. But they're all in the hoof book, they're two different things.

Dr. Schnitzel:

Yes, okay. So the globe museum is the only one, the only public museum in the world that has just displays globes, and it's part of the national library, and the welt museum is just around the corner. Basically, and I think it's that's the one I've been talking about, more different cultures different perspectives on culture. All right, so maybe I was getting those two conflated there's also money, museum and some other things I just found out wow, so many fun museums to go to.

Mr. Giggles:

Yes, with 104 plus, 200 minus or maybe 200 plus that list.

Dr. Schnitzel:

We should go back and count every single museum here. That'd be quite the project.

Mr. Giggles:

That'd be kind of project, yeah, to just walk the city streets and find each museum. I don't know if that's something we're going to do.

Dr. Schnitzel:

There's the burial Museum.

Mr. Giggles:

There's so many museums, so many museums. All right, well, I guess we'll talk about some of those in the future, but for now, guten bye-bye.

Dr. Schnitzel:

It's what's.

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