Worth Seeing
Akademie der bildenen Kunste (Academy of Fine Arts).
If the teachers here had admitted Adolf Hitler as an art student in 1907 and 1908 instead of rejecting him, history might have proved very different.

The Acad­emy was founded in 1692, but the present Renaissance Revival build­ing dates from the late 19th century. The idea was conservatism and traditional values, even in the face of a growing movement that scorned formal rules. The Academy includes a museum focusing on Old Mas­ters. The collection is mainly of interest to specialists, but Hieronymus Bosch's famous Last Judgment triptych hangs here-an imaginative, if gruesome, speculation on the hereafter.

Dritte Mann Museum (Third Man Museum). This shrine for film afi­cionados is close to the famous Naschmarkt and offers an extensive pri­vate collection of memorabilia dedicated to the classic film directed by Carol Reed and shot entirely on location in Vienna.

Authentic exhibits include cinema programs, autographed cards, movie and sound record­ings, and first editions of Graham Greene's novel, which was the basis of the screenplay. Also here is the original zither used by Anton Karas to record the famous film music, the tune that was to become an ever­green and started a tremendous zither boom in the' 50s. Karas, born in Vienna in 1906 had his 100th birthday justly celebrated with commem­orative performances of the music that made history: the "Harry Lime Theme." Listen to the original shellac that's played on an old music cab­inet. In the reading corner, one can browse through historic newspaper articles about the film.

ZENTRALFRIEDHOF - Taking a streetcar out of Schwarzenbergplatz, music   lovers will want to make a pilgrimage to the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery), which contains the graves of most of Vienna's great composers: Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, the Johann Strausses (father and son), and Arnold Schonberg, among others. The monument to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a memorial only; the ap­proximate location of his unmarked grave can be seen at the now de­consecrated St. Marx-Friedhof at Leberstrasse.

The Habsburgs' Schonbrunn Palace
The glories of imperial Austria are nowhere brought together more convincingly than in the Schonbrunn Palace (Schloss Schonbrunn) com­plex. Brilliant" Maria Theresa yellow" -she, in fact, caused Schobrunn to be built-is everywhere in evidence.

An impression of imperial ele­gance, interrupted only by tourist traffic, flows unbroken throughout the grounds. This is one of Austria's primary tourist sites, although sadly, few stay long enough to discover the real Schonbrunn (including the lit­tle maiden with the water jar, after whom the complex is named).

Although the assorted outbuildings might seem eclectic, they served as centers of entertainment when the court moved to Schonbrunn in summer, ac­counting for the zoo, the priceless theater, the fake Roman ruins, the greenhouses, and the walkways. In Schonbrunn you step back 300 years into the heart of a powerful and growing empire and follow it through to defeat and demise in 1917.