The Metropolitan Museum of Art Opening Hours Christmas Eve

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Wondering if you can visit any museums and palaces in Vienna over Christmas?

The answer is usually yeah. Read on for the details.

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  • Museums in Vienna
  • What to see

Public holidays

The big Austrian Christmas celebration is on December 24th in the belatedly afternoon or early evening. But the official public holidays are Christmas Twenty-four hours (25th) and Boxing Day (26th). On those ii days, transport services shift to longer intervals, and stores, offices etc. are airtight.

Museums & other attractions

(Schönbrunn Palace opens all-twelvemonth round)

To cut a long story short, many (well-nigh) places typically remain open across the 24th, 25th and 26th. You shouldn't be brusque of things to do or see.

Whatever it says below, though, practise check locally with official sites to be sure, considering:

• Some locations may have a weekly twenty-four hour period off that happens to fall on a Christmas date and I might miss that
  • Mondays or Tuesday are popular choices for the "day off"
  • Equally, many places open on their usual solar day off if information technology happens to be a public holiday

• Christmas opening hours may change, especially as some locations clarify their Christmas dates quite tardily

• Since the 24th is the big day, it'south non unusual to find places endmost a little before on that mean solar day, and so staff tin get domicile to their families

• Let us hope COVID-19 issues are a thing of the past by Christmas 2022. If non, they may alter opening dates and times at short notice, either due to regulations or simply through reduced international travel

Sites commonly open up every bit normal

This listing includes those locations that typically remain open over Christmas, with notes based on what they did last fourth dimension out. Don't forget to check the Christmas market opening times, too (some may open for at to the lowest degree part of the day across the vacation period):

• Stephansdom cathedral – acquit in mind this is a working cathedral then religious services may forestall yous accessing some areas at some times

• Belvedere – both the Upper and Lower palaces

• Schönbrunn Palace – the outdoor paid attractions, like the maze, close in wintertime, but the master palace tours and the extensive park and gardens remain open 365 days a year

• Schönbrunn Zoo – famously a identify to entertain the kids during the Christmas holidays as it opens all twelvemonth

• Hofburg Palace – the imperial apartments, Sisi museum and silver collection

• The MUMOK (closed at 2pm on the 24th) and Kunsthalle museums in the Museumsquartier

• Madame Tussauds – the Vienna branch of the wax museum

• The MAK museum – airtight before on the 24th (at 3pm)

• Riesenrad (giant Ferris bike) – closed at 5pm on Dec 24th

• Albertina museum – open up daily only airtight at 2pm on Christmas Eve

• Kunsthistorisches Museum (main art history museum but closed at 3pm on the 24th) and Purple treasury (has as well closed earlier in the past on the 24th)

• The Kunst Haus Wien (Hundertwasser Museum) – closed at 3pm on the 24th

• Kunstforum Wien – closed before on the 24th (3pm)

• Haus der Musik – has airtight before (at 6pm) on the 24th in previous years

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Sites that may close on specific days

• Castilian Riding School – cheque the schedule. In 2021, for instance, information technology had no public forenoon training on the 25th or 26th

• Leopold Museum – closed on the 24th in 2021

• Natural History Museum – closed on December 25th in 2021 (and at 3pm on the 24th)

Other attractions may be open up over Christmas, as well, merely I've simply listed some of the major ones.

Basically, even with possible changes to the above, yous should not get bored (though I reserve a little uncertainty because of whatever potential public wellness bug that might mess things upwards again).

If the weather's not too cold, the holidays also nowadays a good opportunity to simply wander around Vienna's centre (the old boondocks), savour the lights, and indulge in some Christmas punch.

With shops and businesses closed on the 25th and 26th, everything's quieter and yous get a different, more relaxed temper when delivery vans and stressed workers are off the streets.

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Source: https://www.visitingvienna.com/sights/christmas-opening-hours/

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