Foltermuseum

Advantages: Central location, reasonably priced
Disadvantages: Not enough actual period exhibits

...to spend an hour or two if you’re at a loose end, but I’d still be tempted to go for a Viennese Eiskaffee instead… Foltermuseum Wien Fritz-Grünbaum-Platz 1 A-1060 Wien Tel.: ++43 (0)1/ 585 7185 Opening hours: 10am-6pm daily Nearest U-Bahn: U3 Neubaugasse http://www.folter.at/index.html (German only) ... Read review

Advantages: extensive program
Disadvantages: get there early or face poor seats...

.... The site www.film.at also carries the film schedules for the Apollokino, so you can find out when to go and at what time. To get there, your best bets are either the 13a, 14a or 57a buses, or it is a couple of minutes walk from Neubaugasse U-Bahn (on the U3) on the Mariahilferstrasse, and it is just round the corner from Haus des Meeres – an aquarium based in a former Flakturm (a remnant of the Nazi occupation of Vienna – and whose 30 foot concrete walls are about the only thing guaranteed to survive 1000 years from the Third Reich!) and the Foltermuseum – torture museum. You would be forgiven for thinking that a 12 screen cinema complex would have to be a contemporary carbuncle, but the Apollo pre-dates the multiplexes that we have all become so familiar with, although admittedly it is now run by the Cineplexx group, who... Read review

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