It was nice to see streets clogged with hundreds of people sharing a evening drink of hot cider or wine and sharing the frigid temperature at the many outdoor markets. Vienna is a nice, orderly city. Having visited Budapest and Ljubljana, and now living in Zagreb, it's been really interesting to explore places on foot and see the architectural heritage of the Austria-Hungarian Empire in various cities.

We visited the Jewish Museum. The collection of articles is very extensive, with a very good interactive display. The exhibit on Austrian Jewry during World War II combined moving personal stories and artifacts with an interactive, holographic, non-structured layout that unfortunately didn't work well for me.

We also went to Freud's apartment. It's an unusual museum. All of Freud's furnishings and personal effects are in his home in Hampstead, London, kept as they were when he lived there. That home is filled with three-dimensional objects, but it is like a still photograph, preserving a single moment. The apartment in Vienna retains the original layout, but the rooms are empty. The walls are covered with photographs of each room as it was furnished. Display cases on the walls contain excerpts from his documents, personal photos, and details of his youth and life in Austria. The apartment in Vienna seems to give a living history to Freud's life, presenting the motion picture that precedes the home in London, yet the rooms themselves are quite bare.

We enjoyed the Leopold Museum (20th Century Austrian) very much, and the whole Museum Quarter is a beautifully laid out complex. Vienna has many other museums that we'd like to visit again--when it's warmer and brighter! [an error occurred while processing this directive]