MuseumsQuartier (MQ) is with 60.000 m² the eight-largest cultural complex worldwide and has already gained the third spot on Vienna’s most-visited list (after Schönbrunn and Kunsthistorisches Museum) since the opening in 2001. The complex was installed on the former imperial stables with some buff historic structure enclosing a vast court with several modern museum buildings inside like Architekturzentrum Wien (documents international architectural developments), Kunsthalle (shows local and international contemporary art), Leopold Museum (presents 19-century and modernist Austrian artworks and the worlds biggest collection of Egon Schiele paintings) or MUMOK (focuses on 20th-century-art as pop art, fluxus, nouveau realism, expressionism, cubism, minimal art and Viennese Actionism). Between the light and limestoned Leopold Museum and the dark MUMOK with its basalt rock murals stretches a wide courtyard with people sunbathing in summer or curling in winter. Apart from the manifold cultural programme people also come for the little shops, restaurants or cafés. Café Leopold with nightly DJ-programme is most popular.

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Recent Session(s) at this location

• Bodi Bill Our offstage session with Berlin-based Bodi Bill might not have taken place in such an unhindered manner if it had happened a few weeks later. Then the location – Museumsquartier (MQ) – became subject of a huge debate on how to define and use public space, namely if people should be allowed to drink self-brought alcoholic drinks and make music within the MQ area. At first, rules were tightened, but after some protests softened again. Anyway, d... more ... July 27th, 2009 - (2 Comments)

• Killed By 9V Batteries Killed By 9V Batteries are noisy. So noisy, that we weren’t sure if they would actually participate in a TSM-session, as there are lots of bands – especially the “loud” ones – who are not really interested in reducing their volume in any way. But the four guys from Weiz, Styria turned out to be the complete opposite, leaving their stage appearance – heavily distorted guitars, screamed vocals and almost destroyed instruments – behind, not carin... more ... March 19th, 2008 - (5 Comments)

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