Dritte Mann Museum Wien - 3mpc - third man private collection

2011/07/27 Klaus Greven

Uns allen hat unser Besuch bei Ihnen sehr gefallen. Besonders auch Ihr unverbindliches und freundliches Entgegenkommen nebst Erklärung zu div. Fragen unsererseits.

Ihr kleines aber sehr informatives Museum ist sehr interessant und können wir nur weiter empfehlen !!

Wir wünschen weiterhin viel Erfolg.

4 Besucher aus Moers u. Rheinberg

2010/12/19 Neil Butler

Just a thank you to say how much I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to your museum last weekend, I found it fascinating. The enthusiasm and interest of the staff was clear and added to the enjoyment of my visit. I will certainly be reccomending it to others as one of the unusual highlights of a visit to the lovely city of Vienna.

Thank you again,

Neil
Cardiff UK

2010/11/28 Scott Richardson

I visited "The Third Man" museum on November 6th and thought it a wonderful experience! It is a highlight of any stay or tour of Vienna; showing a different side to that fascinating city.
The immediate post-war era in Vienna is just as much a part a history of that city as the Hapsburgs rule. And, this museum illustrates that part of the film as much as it does the characters.
VERY needed to understand this film. I GREATLY enjoyed discussing the role of Kim Philby with the proprietor of the museum; who took some time to discuss this matter with me. I had not realized the connection of the names of Harry Lime (fictitious) and Harold Adrian Russel Philby (real life); though I had known about Philby being the real life basis for Lime. I had also not realized that Philby had been knowledgeable about the Vienna sewers and other infrastructure during WWII even though he had not been in the city since his marriage to Litzi Friedman in 1934.

Fascinating background! A great museum and well worth a few hours on a Saturday afternoon!!!

Scott Richardson

2010/11/01 Karl Stiller

Lieber Herr Gerhard Strassgschwandtner,

Ihr Museum ist das Sahnehäubchen auf der vielfältigen Museumspalette von Wien. Der Charme der Stadt Wien, der morbide und doch zukunftsgewandt ist, kommt hier in besonderer Weise zum Ausdruck. Herzblut hat das Museum entstehen lassen, was man in jeder Sekunde spürt.

Mit den herzlichsten Grüßen

Karl Stiller

Betreffend unseres Führungstermins 4.10.2010 17 Uhr (RSC) möchte ich Ihnen mitteilen, dass die ganze Gruppe nicht nur vom Museum und seinen Schätzen begeistert ist, sondern auch die engagierte Führung und die nette Atmosphäre loben. Es spricht sich herum und so könnte sich ein zweiter Termin ergeben, bei dem ich hoffentlich auch dabei sein kann.

Just a note to say how much we enjoyed the museum on our evening visit of Tuesday 21st Sept. The exhibits were interesting and so was the short film (what a great projector to show it on) - also we've kept our gummi drain covers as a worthy momento.

Erinnert ihr euch? Wir waren die beiden Schweizer/innen die euch am Donnerstag-Nachmittag, 26. August besucht haben (ich habe den “Schluss–Szene-Wettbewerb mit 31 Abbildungen gewonnen” und meine Freundin hat sich mit euch unterhalten – Flaschenmuseum und so).
Gratuliere zu euerem Museum: Ich als Nostalgiker habe es voll genossen. Ich finde es genial über einen einzigen Film so ein Museum zu eröffnen und zu unterhalten. Wien war schön. Wien war sehr schön. Euer Museum war genial.

PS: Seit Jahren bin ich daran der englischen Sprache mächtig zu werden. Meine letzte Pflichtlektüre war das Lesen von «The Third Man».

In diesem Sinne.
Liebe Grüsse aus der Schweiz.

Just a quick note to say how much my wife and I enjoyed our tour of the museum last Saturday (17th July).
We both agreed that it was one of the highlights of this year's visit, indeed of any of our visits (this was our fourteenth year in Vienna) and couldn't understand why we had waited so long to find you. The collection is absolutely breathtaking and is presented in a most novel and entertaining way (Mary was delighted with the prize for the quiz!)

Dear Gerhard

I have just received The Catalogue, for which many thanks indeed. Congratulations, really... It is hard to imagine better curatorship. The design is first rate; the film and all its participants are treated with devotion and respect - right down to little Hansl! However well the visitor knows the film, he or she will find something new. Hugh Perceval's notes are completely in character with the film itself.

My goodness, you set high standards in Vienna. So high that none will ever dream of making a 3rd Man type drama in the city again! Belgrade, maybe, or Sarajevo, or even Budapest - but not the jewel in the crown of the Dual Empire!

Very best wishes

John

I joined the Walk on Friday 18 and visited the Museum on Saturday 19 December and am writing to thank you for the great experiences.

Back home I have enjoyed reading 'The Third Man's Vienna' and the Museum's Catalogue - both excellent productions - and listened to Eleanor McDowall's Radio 4 Documentary. The film was broadcast on BBC TV over Christmas as part of an Orson Welles season, but I'm glad I took the opportunity to see it on the big screen at the Burg Kino.

I hope to be able to return during 2010 for more walks and another visit to the Museum; also to collect my fourth sticker by visiting the Kanal. Vienna suits me better than Constantinople.

I wish you a Happy New Year - Keep up the good work!

Regards, Peter Milroy

Dear Gerhard,

We enjoyed very much our visit to wonderful Wien, and look forward to revisiting your city. For us "oldies" who had the great thrill of seeing the Third Man movie when it was shown for the first time, it was also a great experience to visit your interesting museum. It brought back many memories from a time when a good film was really enjoyed. No competition in those days from TV soap operas and other mediocre movies.

I wish you every success with your interesting museum and hope you will have a lot of visitors. We certainly will recommend it to all our friends.

With best wishes from Norway,

Yours sincerely,

Nils

Hello again,

Hilary and I just wanted to thank you for a most fascinating tour of the museum. It fully deserves its entry in the Vienna Top 10 Guide. We did the Third Man walking tour on the Friday (also excellent), taking the opportunity to recommend the museum to other tourists.

We did appreciate the personal touch you brought to our experience and wish you well in your enterprise. We hope to return to Vienna again in the not-too-distant future. The city holds a very special place in our hearts.

Best wishes,

Raymond Ali

I had the privilege of being on your tour of Postwar Vienna and the Third Man Museum in early June and really enjoyed it. You are to be commended on your "passion", and also for your efforts to keep alive the history of the late thirties and forties.

I only wish I had more time in your musuem, and if I am ever fortunate enough to get back to Vienna, I'll spend all Saturday afternoon!!

You mentioned that you are publishing a catalog later this year, and if so, would like to receive a copy.

Liebe Karin Höfler, lieber Gerhard Strassgschwandtner

Im Dezember 2008 habe ich Ihr wundervolles Museum besucht und war sehr begeistert.

Vor einiger Zeit gab es in der dänischen Zeitung "Politiken" die Möglichkeit, anderen Lesern auf ein besonderes Museum aufmerksam zu machen. Man sollte kurz das Museum beschreiben, und das habe ich dann getan. Sehen Sie den untenstehenden Zeitungsausschnitt.

Mein Vorschlag hat den Preis als bester Tipp der Woche gewonnen.

Herzliche Grüsse

Nanna Bjargum

Anbei das Foto von unserer gestrigen "Stiftung"; Wien und gerade auch Ihr Museum haben uns sehr gut gefallen und wir waren gewiss nicht zum letzten Mal zu Besuch - sowohl in Wien als auch in Ihrer beeindruckenden Sammlung, die wir gerne weiterempfehlen!

Mit den besten Grüßen,
Inske & Daniel Mühlenfeld

you probably will not remember, but i took this photo after i visited your wonderful collection, and you asked me to send you a copy. i promised i would, and here it is. for me it is a wonderful reminder of my visit and of the opportunity to chat to you both about the fantastic effort and impressive work you have put into the dritte mann museum.
i was absolutely amazed at how much material you have managed to acquire, at how varied and comprehensive it is, and how interestingly you have displayed it all. one of the highlights was the old projector and the short length of film you project onto the "disappearing" screen. but i also found the details of the occupation and the war in vienna very interesting. in fact i loved it all.
my congratulations on a fantastic achievement.
best regards, john z. byron bay, australia

Hallole,

war vor nicht allzulanger Zeit auch in ihrem Museum und bin auch sehr angetan von der Idee ein Museum einem ganz besonderen Film zu widmen.
Der deutsche Fußballnationaltrainer Joachim Löw sagte nach dem EM Spiel gegen Österreich, als er vom vierten Unparteiischen auf die Tribüne verbannt wurde: " Ich wusste seither nur, dass es in Wien den dritten Mann gibt, aber der vierte Mann ist mir neu." An diese Episode musste ich in Ihrem schönen Museum auch wieder denken.

Gruß aus Stuttgart

Jürgen Moosmann

Dear Karin and Gerhard
After our visit on Saturday - Just to say thanks so much for a fabulous museum. We really enjoyed our time with you guys, loved what you've done and reveled in your enthusiasm. We were in town for just a couple of nights and the Third Man experience helped make our time in Vienna really memorable.
Love the web site, the You Tube Video, and the book....can't wait to come back for more!
All best wishes
David Brown and Ali Mitchell
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On May 30 I was one of the fortunate folks aboard the Vantage River Odyssey to have selected your tour "Allies, Spies and Lies". I found your commentary during the bus tour and stops in the city very interesting. Your comments were a fine preparation both for our all-too-brief visit to the museum (where I wish there had been more time to view the many exceptional black and white photos) and to my viewing, that evening (back on board ship), of the movie itself.
Personally, I found the conflicting mentalities - especially the fundamental attitudes toward human beings (as expressed by individuals per se, and by de facto political authorities) - that pervade the movie (and are expressed so dramatically in what was said from the top of the ferris wheel) to be of continuing human importance.

Your tour was for me the standout tour of our entire cruise; only the tour of the Jewish quarter in Prague was of comparable interest. (A Mozart Music Tour had no music whatsoever!)
If my wife and I ever return to Vienna, another (longer!) visit to the Dritte Mann Museum will be at the top of my list!

With warm best wishes,
Cordially,
Gary Cox, Philosophy Dept. (retired), State University of New York, College at Geneseo.

I was most impressed with the new rooms: they really add some historical flesh to the bones of the Harry Lime story. No longer just a museum for film buffs, the collection is now a fully-fledged historical museum.
Congratulations.

And it was great to meet some of your visitors, too. I think you get a rather different type of visitor coming through your doors: more the traveller than the tourist, if you know what I mean.

Sehr stimmungsvolles Museum, wird der Atmosphäre des Films gerecht! Echt sehenswert!
LG, Alex

Hallo und liebe Grüsse aus Deutschland, am 26.04.2008 habe ich Euer hervorragendes Museum besucht und bin noch immer begeistert, wie liebevoll alles zusammengetragen und präsentiert wurde, einfach grossartig! Zu meiner grossen Überraschung traf ich am Tag darauf einen recht prominenten Besucher Eures Museums, welcher die Begeisterung mit mir teilt. Die Rede ist von Mr.Peter Parks, ehem. Gitarrist der Band Warhorse und Musikerkollege von Nick Simper, dem Deep Purple - Mitbegründer. Anbei noch ein Bild von uns.

My wife and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at the museum for making us so welcome on our visit to Vienna.

The museum is quite wonderful and a credit to the city and does justice to such a great film.

Just wanted to tell you again how much we enjoyed your museum and meeting you. It was full of character, invention and clear love. We both came away from Vienna feeling that our visit to you was the high point. All the historical information really gave us a clearer picture of the city and Austria as a whole. We went on to visit the Arsenal and with what we'd learned from you the displays there made a lot more sense (especially as there were no English annotations) and had a greater poignancy.

We still don't know how you manage to keep the place going but we're damn glad you do. Rest assured we'll send as many people as we can your way and will put a link as soon as we update our websites.

My wife & I visited your museum last week when we were in Vienna with a Vantage Travel group. We were very impressed with your collection and commend you for your efforts and perserverance to construct it.

Der Besuch bei Ihnen im Museum war ein Höhepunkt unseres Besuches in Wien - ja da bekommt man wieder etwas Heimweh. Nochmals vielen Dank für die kompetente Führung und die vielen interessanten Ausstellungsgegenstände.

Hallo,
hier wie versprochen das Bild von uns mit den vollgeklebten Pässen. Noch mal vielen Dank für den interessanten Besuch in eurem Museum.
Gruß
Matze und Beabl

3 Damen besuchten heute das Museum und waren begeistert von der Vielfalt ,der mit so viel Liebe zusammen getragenen Dinge . Die die Geschichte des 3 Mann Film zeigen. UND DIES ALLES OHNE SUBVENTIONEN, im Gegensatz zu einem Maler ,der jetzt sogar noch ein Museum in Mistelbach erhalten hat.

Thank you for a wonderful visit to your delightful tribute to Anton Karas and Der Dritte Mann. It was the highlight of our trip to Vienna . As a rock musician who was heavily influenced by the music of Anton Karas as a child , I can only thank you and Karen for keeping this beautiful music alive.

Pete Parks ( Guitarist with Nick Simper of Deep Purple ) Warhorse , Fandango and The Good Old Boys .

I just thought I would drop you a note of thanks for an excellent visit last Saturday (17th February)

Gerhard was a fascinating guide. I wish you great success in your ambition to bring the history of Austria at that difficult period to a wider audience - it is a worthy goal.

Hi
We just wanted to say thank you for such an interesting visit on Saturday - such a treat to see the extract from the film with a real projector...

We will always think of Pressgasse when we encounter the film again in future!
Good luck with the further development of the museum

Auf diesem Wege möchte ich Ihnen zur Aufstellung des Museums "Der Dritte Mann" nochmals gratulieren.

Für mich war der gestrige Besuch bei Ihnen ein großes Erlebnis. Die Sammlung gefällt mir sehr gut, die Atmosphäre des Museums und das mit Ihnen geführte Gespräch haben auf mich einen großen Eindruck gemacht. Ich schätze Ihren Einsatz sehr hoch.

DRITTE MANN MUSEUM
JEDEN SAMSTAG 14.00 - 18.00 UHR
FÜR WEITERE TERMINE HIER KLICKEN
gruppen jederzeit gegen voranmeldung

pressgasse 25, 1040 wien
tel +43-1-5864872
contact@3mpc.net

GÄSTEBUCH

DRITTE MANN MUSEUM JEDEN SAMSTAG 14.00 - 18.00 UHR FÜR WEITERE TERMINE HIER KLICKEN gruppen jederzeit gegen voranmeldung

pressgasse 25, 1040 wien tel +43-1-5864872 contact@3mpc.net

GÄSTEBUCH

DRITTE MANN MUSEUM
JEDEN SAMSTAG 14.00 - 18.00 UHR
FÜR WEITERE TERMINE HIER KLICKEN
gruppen jederzeit gegen voranmeldung

pressgasse 25, 1040 wien
tel +43-1-5864872
contact@3mpc.net