7th district · right bank of the Danube
Neubau & MuseumsQuartier
The MuseumsQuartier courtyards, Spittelberg's Biedermeier lanes and the city's best independent shops, cafés and bars.
What it is
The 7th district sits directly behind the imperial museums, between Mariahilfer Straße and Lerchenfelder Straße. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it was Vienna's silk and textile quarter — prosperous enough that its Schottenfeld area was nicknamed Brillantengrund, the diamond ground. The workshops and Biedermeier houses survived, and in the last thirty years Neubau became the capital of independent Vienna: designers, galleries, specialty coffee and the city's most self-consciously creative crowd.
What is here
The MuseumsQuartier, built into the baroque imperial stables, with the Leopold Museum and its great Schiele collection, mumok for modern art and the Kunsthalle. Its courtyards, with their oversized loungers, are Vienna's summer living room. Behind it, the lanes of Spittelberg, restored Biedermeier houses that host a much-loved Christmas market. The Furniture Museum, the imperial household's old furniture store. Neubaugasse, Kirchengasse and Lindengasse for independent shops and serious coffee; the Glacis Beisl tucked into the MQ, and the Schnitzelwirt for a plate-sized schnitzel without ceremony.
What it is like
Relaxed and young. Weekday mornings belong to laptops in cafés and shopkeepers opening up; Saturdays to browsing. The MQ courtyards fill on warm evenings with people who bought a drink and stayed three hours. The residential streets towards the Gürtel are quiet, leafy in places, and full of courtyards you can often peek into.
Who should stay here
Couples, design-minded travellers and repeat visitors who have done the palaces and want to live like a Viennese for a few days. Art lovers, with the MuseumsQuartier and the Kunsthistorisches Museum across the road. Hotels lean towards design: the 25hours Hotel with its rooftop bar, and the art-filled Altstadt Vienna.
Practical
U2 Museumsquartier and Volkstheater, U3 Neubaugasse and Zieglergasse, tram 49 along Siebensterngasse. The catch: very few big-name sights of its own, and the streets closest to the Gürtel are a long walk from the Ring. Stay east of Neubaugasse if you want the Hofburg on foot, and book the Spittelberg restaurants ahead during Christmas-market season, when the lanes are packed.
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Where to stay in Neubau & MuseumsQuartier
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Frequently asked
Which district of Vienna is Neubau in?
Neubau is Vienna's 7th district, on the right bank of the Danube, the same side as the historic centre. It is easy to verify from the postcode: the four digits start with 1, the middle two give the district and the last is 0, so any street address here carries 1070. That is the quickest way to find out where a listing actually is before you book it.
What is worth seeing in Neubau?
The best-known sights here are Leopold Museum, Stiftskirche and ZOOM Kindermuseum. The full list, with opening hours and a map, is further up this page.
Where should I eat in Neubau?
Among the best-rated restaurants in the district are SETTE Artisan Craft Pizza • Cocktail Bar, H11 Neubau and Vevi Vegan Rolls & Pots. The ratings come from Google and are refreshed periodically — they are not paid placements.
Is Neubau a good area to stay in?
It depends what you want from it. The accommodation section above lists several options in the district, and the write-up at the top of this page says plainly who the area suits and who it does not. The map at the foot of the page is centred on Neubau itself.
Is there a proper Viennese coffee house in Neubau?
Yes — Café Roza and Epos Café. A Viennese coffee house is judged on simple things: the glass of water that arrives with the coffee, the newspapers on wooden holders, and nobody hurrying you out after a single Melange.
Are there Heurigen or wine taverns in Neubau?
Yes — Hertz & Seele and Die Rundbar. Vienna is one of the few capitals with working vineyards inside its city limits, and the wine tavern is the local institution: the good ones pour the house wine by the glass — often a Grüner Veltliner or a Gemischter Satz — and announce themselves with tables full of Viennese.
Does Neubau have any nightlife?
Yes. Reference points in the district include Saint George Cocktail Bar, Soulmate and Noahs Ark Experimental Cocktail Club. For the densest concentration of bars, Viennese nights move to the arches under the U6 along the Gürtel and the streets around Schwedenplatz.
Districts next door
Vienna's districts run into one another without a seam, and the U-Bahn makes most of them closer than they look — these are the nearest, measured from the centre of this one.
Before you go
Skip-the-line ticketsTimed entry booked ahead for Schönbrunn, the Sisi Museum and the Kunsthistorisches Museum — which in Vienna's high season is a genuinely long queue avoided, and at KHM now a requirement.Check tickets →Museum & palace ticketsMobile tickets for Vienna's museums, palaces and the Riesenrad, bought in advance — useful now that the Kunsthistorisches Museum requires a time slot.See tickets →City passOne pass covering a set of attractions. It pays off only above roughly three paid sights a day — worth the arithmetic before you buy.See what it covers →Self-guided audio toursA guided route on your own phone, at your own pace, for a fraction of a walking tour. Good on the Ringstraße and in the Hofburg courtyards, where the story is not written on the buildings.Browse audio tours →
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