Liechtenstein Museum

This is one of the last of the old princely galleries still in private hands. The House of Liechtenstein has been buying art for some 400 years, and the reigning prince still owns the collection outright, showing part of it in the family's Baroque summer palace in Vienna, the Garden Palace, built in the late 1600s with a frescoed great hall by the painter Andrea Pozzo.

The strength is 17th-century Flanders. A whole room is given to Rubens: the large Decius Mus cycle, painted with his workshop, and the tender little portrait of his young daughter Clara Serena. Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Italian Renaissance bronzes fill the rooms around them, hung against silk in gilded interiors rather than on white walls.

The palace opened as a public museum in 2004 after a long restoration, and now opens mainly for booked guided tours, its gilded state carriage and pietra dura furniture shown alongside the paintings.