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Belvedere Shop brings Klimt editions and museum catalogues together with design inspired by the Wiener Werkstätte, connecting books with the collection. Buchhandlung Löwenherz specialises in LGBTQ+ literature and history, with children's books also represented in the Vienna shop founded in 1993. Buchhandlung Walther König focuses on exhibition catalogues and monographs in the MuseumsQuartier, with architecture and art theory among its subjects.
Vienna, Online
The Belvedere's store carries the imagery of Vienna 1900 — Klimt editions, Wiener Werkstätte-inspired design and the museum's catalogues — from the palace that houses The Kiss.
Best for Klimt’s Kiss and Viennese design
Berggasse 6, Alsergrund, Vienna
Vienna LGBTQ+ bookshop since 1993 — 12,000+ titles across literature, theory, documentary, and community.
Best for LGBTQ+ literature, history and children’s books
Buchhandlung Löwenherz has occupied a central place in Vienna's queer cultural landscape since 1993, operating as an independent LGBTQ+ bookshop that functions simultaneously as library, archive, and community meeting space. The store maintains a curated collection exceeding 12,000 titles spanning fiction, biography, non-fiction essays, documentary film, art books, illustrated volumes, and an extensive children's literature section addressing queer experiences and identities. Staff provide recommendations and maintain expertise across German and English language materials, ensuring accessibility for Vienna's diverse queer demographics. The bookshop occupies Berggasse 6 in Alsergrund, a neighborhood with deep queer history, and shares the building with Café Berg, a café space supporting extended browsing and community gathering. Over three decades of operation, Löwenherz has established itself as a rare institutional space—neither purely commercial nor purely activist—where queer history, literature, and contemporary identity expression interweave.
Museumsplatz 1, Neubau, Vienna
Buchhandlung Walther König’s MuseumsQuartier branch specialises in exhibition catalogues, monographs, architecture and art theory. Its institutional setting and deep backlist make it more useful than a general museum gift shop.
Best for Exhibition catalogues, monographs, and art theory in the MuseumsQuartier
Vienna / Austria
The Jewish Museum Vienna's shop at its Dorotheergasse location sells exhibition catalogues and a curated selection of books, open Sunday through Friday from 10am to 6pm. The book selection is overseen by a dedicated staff curator, and visitors can arrange to buy exhibition catalogues directly through the shop.
Best for Books, museum-shop, judaica
Vienna / Austria
The Leopold Museum Shop in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier sells exhibition catalogues and art books tied to the museum's Klimt, Schiele, and Vienna 1900 collections, with in-person purchase daily and select titles orderable online. Recent releases include catalogues for the Biedermeier and Franz Hagenauer exhibitions.
Best for Klimt and Schiele exhibition catalogues and art books at Vienna's Leopold Museum
Neubau, Vienna
A four-level specialist in stationery, office supplies, creative tools, paper goods, school supplies, and selected gifts. The business states that it has served customers for more than 111 years.
Best for Four-level specialist in stationery, office supplies, creative tools, paper goods, school supplies
Innere Stadt, Vienna
A stationery and paper shop selling wrapping paper, pens, notebooks, stamps, decorations, and small gifts. Founded in 1837.
Best for Wrapping paper, pens, notebooks, and small gifts, family-run since 1837
Vienna
Phil has run as a cafe, bookshop, and bar at Gumpendorfer Strasse 10-12 since 2004, stocking more than 4,000 books. After dark it becomes a bar serving longdrinks and espresso martinis under disco-ball light.
Best for More than 4,000 books lining a Vienna cafe-bar open since 2004
Phil has operated as a cafe, bookshop, and bar at Gumpendorfer Strasse 10-12 in Vienna's 6th district since 2004. The shop describes its own shelves as holding 'more than 4,000 books,' a collection it calls sometimes a little unusual and quirky rather than a curated bestseller list, spread through what the cafe calls a cozy Vienna living room. Breakfast is sourced from regional suppliers with an emphasis on organic quality, and a weekday laptop table accommodates working customers, though the cafe asks that laptops stay closed on weekends to preserve the room's atmosphere for everyone else. Past nightfall, the cafe-bookshop turns into a bar, serving longdrinks and espresso martinis under, as the venue puts it, disco-ball light and soft beats -- a genuine format shift rather than just a later closing time. A garden (Schanigarten) opens seasonally from April through October for outdoor coffee, breakfast, and reading. The venue has picked up repeat local press coverage, appearing in Falter's local guide, Falstaff's cafe guide, and Vienna's own tourism site. Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard is quoted on the site describing a lifelong habit of retreating to coffeehouses the way others retreat to a park or forest -- a line the cafe uses to frame its own role as a refuge, in the words of a canonical Viennese literary voice rather than its own marketing copy.
Innere Stadt, Vienna
An independent English-language bookshop selling literature, poetry, plays, history, art, academic books, and children’s books. It has sold exclusively English-language books at its Vienna shop since 1982.
Best for Independent English-language bookshop selling literature, poetry, plays, history, art, academic books
Vienna / Austria / Online
The online shop of Vienna's Technisches Museum lists more than a hundred products tied to the museum's collection, including books on Austrian radio history and Viennese trams, Lego and Gobricks model kits, and steam-locomotive magnets. Orders ship worldwide by post, with items organized by age group from young children through adults.
Best for Museum shop, books, science and technology gifts
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