Innsbruck / Austria
Bookshop on Erlerstrasse with an online catalogue and literary events.
Books of Austria
13 stores · curated ORBIS register
Vienna reads in English, over coffee, or from a specialist shelf, sometimes all in one afternoon; that is roughly how these three shops divide the city. Shakespeare & Company Booksellers has sold exclusively English-language books at its Vienna shop since 1982. Phil Coffee lines a Vienna cafe-bar with more than 4,000 books since 2004 on its shelves. Buchhandlung Löwenherz shelves LGBTQ+ literature, history, children's books.
Visit official site ↗Salzburg / Austria
Bookshop with fiction, nonfiction, children's books and calendars, plus an online catalogue.
Visit official site ↗Albertina Shop
Worth a DetourAlbertinaplatz, Vienna, Online
The Albertina's shop turns one of the world's great graphic collections into prints, facsimiles and books — Dürer's hare in every dignified form Vienna can produce.
Best for Dürer to Monet, printed and packaged
Visit official site ↗Berggasse 6, Alsergrund, Vienna
Vienna LGBTQ+ bookshop since 1993 — 12,000+ titles across literature, theory, documentary, and community.
Best for LGBTQ+ literature, history and children’s books
Buchhandlung Löwenherz has occupied a central place in Vienna's queer cultural landscape since 1993, operating as an independent LGBTQ+ bookshop that functions simultaneously as library, archive, and community meeting space. The store maintains a curated collection exceeding 12,000 titles spanning fiction, biography, non-fiction essays, documentary film, art books, illustrated volumes, and an extensive children's literature section addressing queer experiences and identities. Staff provide recommendations and maintain expertise across German and English language materials, ensuring accessibility for Vienna's diverse queer demographics. The bookshop occupies Berggasse 6 in Alsergrund, a neighborhood with deep queer history, and shares the building with Café Berg, a café space supporting extended browsing and community gathering. Over three decades of operation, Löwenherz has established itself as a rare institutional space—neither purely commercial nor purely activist—where queer history, literature, and contemporary identity expression interweave.
Visit official site ↗Carl Auböck Workshop
Heritage HouseNeubau, Vienna
A family workshop producing brass, wood, and leather objects including bookends, ashtrays, and small sculptures. The workshop was founded at Bernardgasse in 1906 and has been run by four generations of the Auböck family.
Best for Family workshop producing brass, wood, and leather objects including bookends, ashtrays
Visit official site ↗Vienna / Austria
The Jewish Museum Vienna's shop at its Dorotheergasse location sells exhibition catalogues and a curated selection of books, open Sunday through Friday from 10am to 6pm. The book selection is overseen by a dedicated staff curator, and visitors can arrange to buy exhibition catalogues directly through the shop.
Best for Books, museum-shop, judaica
Visit official site ↗Vienna / Austria
The Leopold Museum Shop in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier sells exhibition catalogues and art books tied to the museum's Klimt, Schiele, and Vienna 1900 collections, with in-person purchase daily and select titles orderable online. Recent releases include catalogues for the Biedermeier and Franz Hagenauer exhibitions.
Best for Klimt and Schiele exhibition catalogues and art books at Vienna's Leopold Museum
Visit official site ↗Vienna / Austria
The mumok Shop, at Museumsplatz 1 in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier, sells bicycle lights, tote bags, and other design-forward accessories alongside limited editions by named artists, posters, postcards, and books on modern and contemporary art. It keeps the same hours as the museum, Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 6pm.
Best for Museum shop, design objects, art books
Visit official site ↗Naschmarkt, Mariahilf, Vienna
Vienna's Saturday flea market runs 6:30am-3pm along the Kettenbrücke end of the Naschmarkt, with roughly 400 stalls of antiques, artwork, secondhand books and records mixed with everyday household castoffs.
Best for Antiques, vintage items, and curiosities from dawn at this Saturday flea market
The Naschmarkt Flohmarkt sets up every Saturday from 6:30am to 3pm at the Kettenbrücke end of Vienna's Naschmarkt, spanning the Mariahilf/Margareten district along the Wienzeile. Roughly 400 vendors work the market — a mix of private sellers clearing out attics and estates alongside professional antiques and collectibles dealers — so the stock ranges from genuinely old furniture, artwork, and silverware down to inexpensive secondhand household goods, used paperbacks, and vinyl records. Vienna's municipal market office (the Marktamt) issues the vendor permits, and the market runs nearly year-round, closing only December 25-26 and January 1 and 6, with an early noon closing on December 24 and 31. Because it sits directly beside the Naschmarkt's produce and food stalls, many visitors combine a grocery walk with a flea-market browse on the same morning. Experienced buyers tend to arrive at opening, since the best pieces move fast before the weekend crowds build through late morning; prices are generally negotiable. Along with the smaller Flohmarkt am Hof, it is one of Vienna's two long-running weekend flea markets, and by vendor count and variety it is the larger of the two.
Visit official site ↗Vienna
Phil has run as a cafe, bookshop, and bar at Gumpendorfer Strasse 10-12 since 2004, stocking more than 4,000 books. After dark it becomes a bar serving longdrinks and espresso martinis under disco-ball light.
Best for More than 4,000 books lining a Vienna cafe-bar open since 2004
Phil has operated as a cafe, bookshop, and bar at Gumpendorfer Strasse 10-12 in Vienna's 6th district since 2004. The shop describes its own shelves as holding 'more than 4,000 books,' a collection it calls sometimes a little unusual and quirky rather than a curated bestseller list, spread through what the cafe calls a cozy Vienna living room. Breakfast is sourced from regional suppliers with an emphasis on organic quality, and a weekday laptop table accommodates working customers, though the cafe asks that laptops stay closed on weekends to preserve the room's atmosphere for everyone else. Past nightfall, the cafe-bookshop turns into a bar, serving longdrinks and espresso martinis under, as the venue puts it, disco-ball light and soft beats -- a genuine format shift rather than just a later closing time. A garden (Schanigarten) opens seasonally from April through October for outdoor coffee, breakfast, and reading. The venue has picked up repeat local press coverage, appearing in Falter's local guide, Falstaff's cafe guide, and Vienna's own tourism site. Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard is quoted on the site describing a lifelong habit of retreating to coffeehouses the way others retreat to a park or forest -- a line the cafe uses to frame its own role as a refuge, in the words of a canonical Viennese literary voice rather than its own marketing copy.
Visit official site ↗Innere Stadt, Vienna
An independent English-language bookshop selling literature, poetry, plays, history, art, academic books, and children’s books. It has sold exclusively English-language books at its Vienna shop since 1982.
Best for Independent English-language bookshop selling literature, poetry, plays, history, art, academic books
Visit official site ↗Vienna / Austria / Online
The online shop of Vienna's Technisches Museum lists more than a hundred products tied to the museum's collection, including books on Austrian radio history and Viennese trams, Lego and Gobricks model kits, and steam-locomotive magnets. Orders ship worldwide by post, with items organized by age group from young children through adults.
Best for Museum shop, books, science and technology gifts
Visit official site ↗Graz / Austria
Bookshop focused on fiction and children's and young-adult books, with a selection of newspapers and magazines.
Visit official site ↗Curated ORBIS register · official links shown where recorded