Kunsthistorisches Museum

This late nineteenth-century museum (and its twin, the "Naturhistorisches Museum" on the opposite site of the court) has been designed to accomodate the vast imperial collections. It hosts one of the richest fine art collections in the world. Its ground floor is largely given over to decorative arts and the ancient world, with impressive Egyptian, Greek and Roman collections, while the fine arts section upstairs offers a fine perspective on the German Renaissance. Canvases of Danubian painters like Albrecht Altdorfer and two Lucas Cranachs providing a link between the medieval world and the perfection of Dürer, Rubens and Rembrandt (also represented with some paintings). The Egyptian section is overwhelming, nowhere in Europe you will find a brightness and choice of ancient treasures like here.