{"id":844,"date":"2015-11-26T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T11:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:41:18","slug":"nhm-cafe-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/nhm-cafe-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"The NHM shop and caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/coffee.jpg\" alt=\"Venetian coffee drinker ca. 1750\" class=\"wp-image-14853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/coffee.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/coffee-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You can work up a healthy appetite looking at Dodos and Diplodoci. Fortunately, the Naturhistorisches Museum has a rather nice caf\u00e9 on the zoological floor. And a fine shop on the ground floor, should you want to buy something more permanent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sumptuous setting for the caf\u00e9 beneath the main dome<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Large shop with many unusual items as well as standard museum wares<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/natural-history-museum\/\">NHM tickets &amp; visitor information<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/traditional-food-drink\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1654\">Viennese food and drink<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Caf\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NHMdome.jpg\" alt=\"The dome above the naturla history museum caf\u00e9; photo \u00a9 NHM Wien, Kurt Kracher\" class=\"wp-image-35079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NHMdome.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NHMdome-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The dome above the caf\u00e9; press photo \u00a9 NHM Wien, Kurt Kracher)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider taking a break here&nbsp;simply for the surrounds: it&#8217;s like drinking coffee inside a work of art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main museum dome forms the caf\u00e9&#8217;s roof, heavily decorated with scientific themes, angels, animals, sculpted columns, crowns, and generous helpings of marble, gold and stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So not quite like your average neighbourhood establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same can be said of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/cafe-restaurant-shop\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1481\">the caf\u00e9<\/a> in the Naturhistorisches Museum&#8217;s twin: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/overview\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1446\">Kunsthistorisches Museum<\/a>. Both take the traditional look of an established <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/coffee-houses\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7689\">Viennese coffee house<\/a> and add in some architectural extravagance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoyed a fine cappuccino on my visit, but the location offered a range of other coffees, teas, juices and alcoholic drinks, plus snacks and some meals to keep you going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cakes looked great. Unfortunately, an expanding midriff kept me away. The waiter was also friendly and fast: not always a given, especially in a busy caf\u00e9 that has a lot of tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Tip: the caf\u00e9 can fill quickly, especially at mealtimes and weekends, so plan for that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Shop<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/venusvonwillendorf.jpg\" alt=\"The Venus von Willendorf\" class=\"wp-image-37181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/venusvonwillendorf.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/venusvonwillendorf-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(This sprung from the imagination of some paleolithic creator: litte did they know that 29,000 years later people would be carrying around copies attached to their car keys. Life, eh? Press photo courtesy of and \u00a9 Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Natural History Museum&#8217;s shop sits on the ground floor, to the left of the entrance after you go in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The store is quite large and airy, and full of the traditional wares of a museum emporium: books (some also in English), posters, postcards, jewellery, toys, replicas of some exhibits, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want T-Rex socks &#8211; and who wouldn&#8217;t? &#8211; or a key ring with a miniature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/venus-von-willendorf\/\">Venus of Willendorf<\/a>, this is your place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the more unusual items I found for sale on my last visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prehistoric relics and fossils (such as a tooth from a spinosaurus or cave bear)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minerals from around the world, including meteorite fragments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Framed beetles and other animals, such as scorpions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere to pick up an alternative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/shopping\/souvenirs\/\">souvenir<\/a> to Mozart balls and a fridge magnet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/kiss\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1119\">The Kiss<\/a>, perhaps? After all, nothing says &#8220;I went to Vienna&#8221; quite as effectively as a nicely-framed prehistoric shark tooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can work up a healthy appetite looking at Dodos and Diplodoci. Fortunately, the Naturhistorisches Museum has a rather nice caf\u00e9 on the zoological floor. And a fine shop on the ground floor, should you want to buy something more permanent. The Caf\u00e9 (The dome above the caf\u00e9; press photo \u00a9 NHM Wien, Kurt Kracher) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-museums","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89047,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/89047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}