Museum · Vienna · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Secession is a museum in Vienna, Austria. This place has an audio tour of about 2 minutes, in English or Dutch. 36 of the 50 well-known points of interest nearby are within 1 km. Within 200 m you'll find a bench, a water point and a public toilet.
Audio tour · Secession
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You're standing outside the Secession Building in Vienna, roughly where Karlsplatz meets the Naschmarkt. Look at the roof first. That dome is made of thousands of gilded laurel leaves and hundreds of laurel berries. The Viennese soon gave it a nickname: the golden cabbage. Can you see why?
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Source: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.
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Partly: according to OpenStreetMap it is only partly wheelchair accessible.
Yes: a water point at 150 m and a public toilet at 200 m.
When you stand at Secession, the Outdoor Pitstop app tells the story of the place in about 2 minutes, in English or Dutch.
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