After dinner we visited the Haus der Musik, a museum dedicated to sound.
The hallway had paintings of various composers.
Rex, trying and failing to explain why Mozart is holding a crocodile. We have a running joke involving crocodiles.
The first exhibit was on the Wiener Philharmoniker.
A conductor outfit.
I can't read music so I made a point of photographing the sheet music so Mom can explain it to me at a later time.
The Haus der Musik has excellent interactive exhibits. Here, you throw dice to randomly assemble a waltz.
Marble detail on a fireplace.
...yeah, no idea what this sounds like but I'll find out later.
This wax statue is positioned in such a way that it's really easy to startle when entering the room.
A list of musicians who were persecuted and/or killed during the Nazi regime.
On the next floor, there's a series of exhibits on experiencing sound. The first room is suppose to simulate what a fetus would hear in the womb.
A tube with sand shows the frequency of a sound wave by shaking into place.
There's a bit on the evolution of hearing which is somehow represented by crystal Swarovski animals.
A room where we could play with sound by changing the frequency of our voices, etc.
This is a sort of sound buffet where you can listen to different sounds, street noise, space transmissions, etc.
The next floor was dedicated to the great composers.
Fiddles used by dancing masters.
Beethoven's life and death masks. My conclusion was that the most famous Beethoven portrait gave him a nose job.
Dance cards where you'd note who you were supposed to dance with at a ball.
Afterwards Rex's friends needed to eat so we walked down the Kärtner Straße again before going home.
I liked this dress.
And that was our first day in Vienna.
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