Austria Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/austria/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:21:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 200 Years of Railway Heritage celebrated at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:21:20 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12541 The Museum of Science and Technology in Vienna (Technisches Museum Wien) is, like us in the UK, celebrating 200 years of technical and social advances brought about by the railway. Their temporary exhibition Under the Spell of the Railway – 200 Years of Rail Transport, opened in October and uses impressive models, historical objects, and […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/feed/ 0 The Armouries at Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck https://mechtraveller.com/2018/07/the-armouries-at-schloss-ambras-innsbruck/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/07/the-armouries-at-schloss-ambras-innsbruck/#comments Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:40:53 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3504 It’s not just the amazing suits of medieval armour in this collection that make this small museum so special. It’s the way they were meticulously displayed and catalogued in the middle of the 16th century, that makes this and the castle’s other curiosities, the world’s oldest museum! Schloss Ambras, on the hills outside Innsbruck in […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2018/07/the-armouries-at-schloss-ambras-innsbruck/feed/ 1 A Visit to Swarovski Kristallwelten https://mechtraveller.com/2017/09/visit-swarovski-kristallwelten/ https://mechtraveller.com/2017/09/visit-swarovski-kristallwelten/#respond Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:03:16 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=2673 Not so much a brand museum as an art installation

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