Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library — Attraction in Vienna

It was interesting, but very short. If you already know a bit about the history of Esperanto, it is nice to see remnants of when it was so widespread that you had poster ads in Esperanto for chocolate or theater events, as well as some documents, but you will not learn much.

If you do not know about Esperanto or wish to have someone discover its history, it is very informative and quite well done, albeit a bit short, as previously noted.

The ticket is combined with a ticket to the museum of globes upstairs, which contains the biggest collection of globes in the world that is accessible...

(Last visit: Aug 2022) It's a small expo that starts with a lesson in language history, auxillary languages and their need. Its second part goes on to tie Esperanto's influence with works of art and its cultural significance throughout the twentieth century. A few interesting findings: William Shakespeare created a lot of contemporary English words, Esperanto rejects the concept of exceptions which greatly simplifies its learning curve, you don’t conjugate Esperanto as meaning is conveyed through compounding morphemes, that is collections of...

I wasn’t planning on going to this museum, but since it was included in my ticket, I decided what the heck and surprisingly I found it to be very interesting, not knowing anything about Esperanto. So it’s really fascinating to learn about his work at making one universal language and after reading and even playing one of the little games they have on display it makes a lot of sense what he was trying to do and it’s not hard either it is a small museum doesn’t take more than 30 minutes to walk down the hallway and read everything play the game...