Urania Observatory Vienna

The Urania is a people's education center with an observatory in the first district of Vienna on Uraniastraße. The association was founded in 1897 and opened its neo-baroque style clubhouse in 1910. Today the Vienna Urania is an institution of the "Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH". The Urania building, which was renovated between 2000 and 2003, now contains the adult education center, an observatory, a cinema, the Urania puppet theater and a café-bar-restaurant. In the house there are numerous lecture and presentation rooms for a wide variety of purposes, as required for the wide range of courses at the adult education center.

Every semester there are around 450 adult education courses, around 100 lectures, as well as cultural festivals, symposia, discussion events, film screenings, etc. on a wide variety of topics. The subject areas offered are

Economy and personality
Computers and multimedia
politics and society
Arts and Culture
Health, exercise and diet
Children and parents

The Urania is one of the most important and art-historical buildings of Vienna in modern times

The Urania is a public education center with an observatory in Vienna's first district on Uraniastrasse. The club was founded in 1897 and opened its neo-baroque style clubhouse in 1910. Today the Vienna Urania is a facility of the “Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH”.