The Museum of the History of Art is located on Maria Theresa Square and is part of its architectural ensemble. The museum was opened under Emperor Franz Joseph in 1891, along with the Museum of Natural History, similar in appearance and located opposite. The basis of the museum collections were the family collections of the Habsburg dynasty, which were collected by kings, emperors and archdukes from the 15th century. Here you can see paintings by many famous artists, especially Dutch (Bosch, Rembrandt, Brueghel the Elder), Italian (Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Veronese, etc.), German (Dürer, Cranach the Elder, Holbein, etc.) and Flemish ( Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, Snyders) painting. The main building of the museum houses 91 halls, which, in addition to the world-famous art gallery, also contain a collection of Oriental and Egyptian antiquities, a collection of ancient monuments, works of Western European sculpture, a cabinet of curiosities and a numismatic cabinet.