In 2001, Vienna opened a huge, modern art complex Museum Quarter, housed in the restored royal stables. stables. In the 1980s, the buildings were extensively remodelled under the direction of Laurids and Manfred Ortner.
The Museum of Art History, the Leopold Museum and the Museum of Modern Art of the Ludwig Foundation are located here. Museum of Modern Art of the Ludwig Foundation. The Leopold Museum houses a collection of of modern Austrian fine art. There are about 5000 paintings by such masters as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Ferdinand Waldmüller, Friedrich Hauermann. The collection was assembled over the course of several decades by Viennese professor Rudolf Leopold.
The Ludwig Foundation Museum of Modern Art is one of the largest contemporary art galleries in central Europe. largest galleries of contemporary art in central Europe: from American Pop Art and Cubism to Cubist art. American Pop Art and Cubism to Expressionism and "Viennese Actionism".
The museum complex also houses the Dance Quarter, an international centre for dance art. international centre for dance, the Vienna Architecture Centre, the Centre for Ecology, the Architecture Museum, the Museum of Architecture, the Museum of Dance, and the Vienna Museum of Art. Ecology Centre, Architecture Museum, Tobacco Museum, Children's Museum, and the "21st Quarter", which accommodates a large number of alternative art forms, and much more. and much more. It hosts festivals such as the Viennese festive weeks and the annual summer festival, the famous Vienna Film Festival and the dance festival. Vienna Film Festival and the Dance Festival.
