Your own guide at the Albertina

About this experience

A private tour run by Rosotravel, a Vienna tour company. You meet your guide in front of Hotel Sacher, Philharmoniker Str. 4, a short walk from the museum. Wait outside: the hotel is only the meeting point and its staff know nothing about the tour. Your skip-the-line ticket has a reserved entry time, so you skip the queue at the cash desk. Be on time.

The base option is 2 hours in the main Albertina: the State Rooms, the print rooms and the galleries of the permanent collection. Read this line twice: on the 2-hour option, entry covers the permanent collection only, and the temporary exhibitions are not included. The 3-hour option adds a private car to and from your hotel. The 4-hour option adds Albertina Modern on Karlsplatz, walking past the State Opera, the Musikverein and the Karlskirche. The 5-hour option has both.

The price is per person, and it is a premium one. Guides work in English, German, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese. Per the listing, museum rules limit how many people one guide may lead, so a large group pays for a second guide. The listing has a single review so far: five stars. Looking for Klimt's The Kiss? It is not at the Albertina. It hangs in the Upper Belvedere, and the Upper Belvedere ticket has a time slot.

• A licensed guide for your group only
• Timed entry: no queue at the cash desk
• The Habsburg State Rooms, the print rooms and the permanent collection
• Ten guide languages
• Options with Albertina Modern or a private car

How the day runs

1. Day beforeCheck your e-mail

   The provider sends the final details the day before. Read them: they confirm your option and entry time.

2. StartMeet at Hotel Sacher

   Wait outside Hotel Sacher, Philharmoniker Str. 4, behind the State Opera. Do not go in to ask. On the 3 and 5-hour options a car picks you up from your hotel instead.

3. Entry timeInto the Albertina

   Walk over to Albertinaplatz and go in at your reserved time, past the cash desk queue.

4. First hourThe State Rooms

   The Habsburg State Rooms first, with the story of the archdukes who lived here and the classicist rooms they left behind.

5. Second hourThe collection

   Your guide takes the group through the print rooms and the permanent galleries that suit it best, and answers the questions you came with.

6. 4 and 5 h optionsOn to Albertina Modern

   Walk past the Opera and the Musikverein to the Künstlerhaus on Karlsplatz for the second museum.

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Tips before you book

• Pick the option for what you want to see. Temporary exhibitions are not part of the 2-hour tour; ask the provider through GetYourGuide before booking if they matter to you.
• Be at Hotel Sacher a few minutes early. Entry is timed, and the hotel staff cannot pass on messages.
• Remember the price is per person, so check the total for your group on the booking screen.
• Leave backpacks and umbrellas behind. They are not allowed in the galleries.
• Pair it with the Hofburg and Sisi Museum tour next door for a full palace day.

Read next:

• The State Rooms
• Albertina vs Albertina Modern

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