Your Private Vienna Tour.
With a private tour in Vienna, the experience is entirely yours. No sharing with strangers, no fixed itinerary, no giant herd following an umbrella.
You decide the date, the pace and the theme. I deliver the stories. With plenty of Viennese charm and even more enthusiasm for this city.
Because let’s be honest:
You are on holiday. You deserve this.
Design your own adventure in Vienna!
What do Private Tours in Vienna actually mean?
Private does not mean expensive or stiff.
Private means the tour is yours.
Tell me what interests you. I will make your idea a reality. Because only you decide how you want to experience the city.
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What kind of private tours in Vienna can you expect?
Whether you fancy a museum visit or a stroll through the old town, Vienna has many faces. I will show you all of them on our private walking tour in Vienna!
Let us explore Vienna together on foot:
The Highlight Tour
Must-sees of the Vienna city centre
This is where you get to know Vienna & fall in love with it. We explore the Opera, the Hofburg, St. Stephen’s Cathedral and more. Packed with stories about the city and the imperial era, great photo spots, and the most beautiful corners Vienna has to offer.
Off the Tourist Track
Hidden corners and local stories
Away from the crowds and into the alleyways: this tour takes you to the places where Viennese legends and myths were born. And where new ones are still being made today. The Vienna no postcard ever shows, but everyone should see.
Baroque in Vienna
The splendour and glory of the imperial age
Grand facades, sweeping gardens and churches that seem to reach for the sky. Vienna never lost its baroque soul. On this private walking tour in Vienna I will show you exactly where it still lives today and what this era of art, music and splendour has to do with the Vienna of the present.
Vienna Around 1900
When Vienna was the most exciting city in the world
The grand boulevard Ringstrasse has just been built, the coffeehouses are fragrant, Freud is analysing and Klimt is provoking. Vienna around 1900 was the most exciting city on earth. This city walk shows you why, and what has survived from that golden era into the present day.
Hitler’s Vienna
Megalomania and downfall
Vienna was Hitler’s teacher. Here he dreamed, failed and learned to hate. This tour shows what the city made of him and how he shaped it in return: from the splendour of 1900 to death and bombing raids.
Or would you like to book a private guided museum tour?
Vienna has more world-class museums per square kilometre than almost any other city on earth. Here hang paintings that shaped world history. Here lie emperors whose decisions defined entire centuries. And in every room there are more stories than most visitors ever get to hear.
With me as your private guide, you will not miss a thing. I show you exactly the highlights that everyone else simply walks past.
Whether it is Caravaggio, Klimt or Hundertwasser: Vienna’s art museums are packed with works that need context. With me, you get it. I am happy to show you the greatest treasures of these museums on one of my private tours in Vienna:
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Rubens, Vermeer, Titian, Durer and more
Request now!The Kunsthistorisches Museum (or Museum of Fine Arts) is one of the most significant art museums in the world and most visitors only skim the surface. Yet it has so much to offer. I will show you how Caravaggio painted while on the run, what Rubens tells us about power and propaganda, and which criminal cases are hiding inside the Kunstkammer.
Belvedere Palace
Klimt, Jugendstil, Schiele & more in a baroque palace
A baroque pleasure palace housing the most important works in Austrian art history. Where Prince Eugene once held his wild baroque parties, the gold leaf of Gustav Klimt now gleams. We stroll through this palace and explore why Egon Schiele shocked society so profoundly and what really makes the world’s most famous kiss so extraordinary.
Leopold Museum
Vienna around 1900: From Klimt to Schiele to Kokoschka
Naked truths, radical taboo-breaking and the depths of the human soul. The Leopold Museum brings the Vienna of the turn of the century to life in a way that is unfiltered and completely unique. In front of the world’s largest collection of Egon Schiele, we decode the visions of Viennese Modernism and explore why these masterpieces would probably never have existed without Sigmund Freud, and why they rightfully caused a scandal.
Kunsthaus Wien
The world of Friedensreich Hundertwasser
A building with no straight lines, uneven floors and trees growing straight out of the facade. Hundertwasser built the Kunsthaus as a museum and the Hundertwasserhaus as a residential building, both entirely true to his philosophy. Here we do not just look at his paintings. We dive deep into the mind of a true visionary who radically reimagined art, architecture and environmentalism long before it was fashionable.
Vienna was the centre of a world empire for 600 years and you can still see it today. Schoenbrunn Palace, the Hofburg, the Imperial Treasury and the Imperial Crypt: lavish rooms, personal tragedies and a dynasty that shaped Europe like no other. I take you behind the golden facades and tell you what the Habsburgs were really made of.
Schönbrunn Palace
Imperial summer residence: Maria Theresa, Mozart and Napoleon
Pleasure palace, political power centre and the grand stage for European history. Where the six-year-old prodigy Mozart played for Maria Theresa and Napoleon later resided as an uninvited guest, the map of the world was redrawn. We stroll through the most magnificent halls of the monarchy and discover the stories hidden within more than 1,400 rooms.
Imperial Crypt
(Kaisergruft)
149 Habsburgs, 12 emperors & 19 empresses
A place that is guaranteed to give you goosebumps. Beneath an unassuming Capuchin church rest the once most powerful rulers in Europe. As we explore this crypt on our private tour in Vienna, we descend into the quiet world of the dead. We talk about bizarre burial rituals, unbridled vanity in the face of death, and what these coffins reveal about the people who chose to be laid inside them.
Sisi Museum & Imperial Apartments
Meet the real Empress Elisabeth
Sisi was one of the most famous women of her time and one of the most unhappy. Not for nothing is she called the Lady Diana of the 19th century. Empress Elisabeth despised court life, travelled restlessly across Europe and died in tragic circumstances in 1898. Over 300 personal objects tell the story of who she really was. On this tour you will understand the difference between the myth and the real woman behind it.
Imperial Treasury
Crown jewels, imperial crowns and the staging of an empire
Nowhere else will imperial power shine at you more directly. Deep within the oldest walls of the Hofburg, the Crown of the Holy Roman Empire and the priceless treasures of the Habsburgs still gleam. This museum tour reveals what lies behind those glittering surfaces: power claims, legends and objects whose stories are even greater than their brilliance.
Vienna is more than Habsburgs and art history. It is a city with a musical legacy that changed the world. With urban stories that speak of everyday life, transformation and identity. And with a cathedral that stands as a symbol of Austria’s reconstruction after the Second World War. These places show you the Vienna that lies behind the grand facades.
House of Music
Vienna: Capital of Classical Music
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Mahler: they all lived in Vienna, composed here, were celebrated here and criticised here. The Haus der Musik (House of Music) makes music tangible. And we chase the big questions: Was Mozart really as poor as people say? Why did Beethoven move home more than 60 times? And what did Gustav Mahler have to do with the Vienna Opera?
Vienna Museum (Wien Museum)
City history in fast-forward: From Romans to Ottomans to metropolis
Vienna has reinvented itself more often in the last 2,000 years than almost any other European capital. But walking through this vast exhibition alone, visitors quickly lose the thread among 1,000 exhibits. On one of my private tours in Vienna we turn it into a gripping journey through time. Using spectacular original objects, I show you how a Roman frontier post became the dazzling centre of a world empire and eventually one of the most liveable cities on earth.
St. Stephen’s Cathedral
Vienna’s landmark and 700 years of city history in stone
It has towered over the city for centuries and almost everyone photographs it without knowing what it really tells. Beneath St. Stephen’s lie catacombs full of bones. On top sits the best view over Vienna. And inside we experience incredible stories from the Middle Ages, from the plague, from wars and sieges, and from the rebuilding after 1945. After our tour you will understand why it is Vienna’s landmark. And you will be genuinely moved by it.
Want to combine a walking tour with a museum? Absolutely possible!
Already know what interests you? Perfect. No idea yet? Also fine. I am happy to help you put together the ideal private Vienna tour for your interests. Whether Habsburgs, Vienna’s darker history, coffeehouse culture or hidden corners far from the tourist trails: I will build a tour that truly fits you.
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How to book your private Vienna tour:
1. Send an enquiry
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I will get back to you and find out exactly what you are looking for. That way the tour becomes truly your tour.
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