There are many museums in the world, some gigantic, some small and cozy (if you can say that about a museum), some disguised as gardens or imperial castles, but none of them is as abstract as Haus Der Musik (House of Music) in Vienna. It’s one of the strangest museums I’ve been into, but intriguing at the same time. To give you just a short example I can tell you that one of the first chambers is the one dedicated to how an unborn child hears sounds from the outside world while still in its mother womb. Need I say more?
House of music – official site. Get info about concerts, location and tickets
Stepping down the corridors inside the House of Music you find different sound experiments that either amaze you, leave your wondering if you really understood the concept or make you ask yourself why are you there. Anyway, if you want to know more about Vienna’s music legacy, dating back to the times of Mozard, Johann Strauss or Gustav Mahler, there’s no better place to do that that House of Music in Vienna. You can learn about their history, how they came to compose those terrific masterpieces and even listen to some on the various headsets placed all over the museum.
At the end, just before the shop with lots of nice small gifts, you can be the bandmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic in a virtual game where your wand movements are being monitored and translated into music. If you don’t like to suck at games you probably should skip that.
To sum all up, Haus Der Musik is a tourist attraction in the middle of Wien which is worth visiting, even if you’re not the music type (like me). It shows what interactive really means when applied into a museum.
Here are a few pictures we’ve took while inside. It was very dark, so please excuse the photo quality (or the lack of it):
