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The souvenirs you keep

One rule for this shelf: it has to be made in Vienna by a workshop we can name, and it has to survive the flight home. No fridge magnets, no plastic Mozart, no airport chocolate.

See the shelfThe one thing to take home
Posted
Austria €4.90 · EU €9.90
Collected
Free at our office counter
Handling fee
€0, as everywhere here
Rows of Viennese souvenir snow globes, the giant Ferris wheel and the city’s churches among them

Invented here, 1900

The snow globe is a Viennese accident

Erwin Perzy I made surgical instruments in Hernals and was asked to get more light out of the new electric bulb. He filled a glass globe with water and semolina to scatter the beam. The lamp failed; the semolina drifting down looked like snowfall. He put a model of the Mariazell basilica inside and sold the first one to a friend’s souvenir stall.

The family still makes them by hand in the same 17th-district house — around 200,000 a year, and the snow recipe has never left the family. Every mass-produced globe in every airport in the world is a copy of this one.

Snow globes from €26.0045 mm travels in your cabin bag · 80 mm and up go in the hold

The shelf

All 15 things, workshop named on every one

What we’d tell you at the counter

  • Liquids decide your luggage

    The 45 mm snow globe is under 100 ml and rides in your cabin bag. The 80 mm one is not — that goes in the hold, or we post it. Same for wine and jam.

  • Wine ships inside the EU only

    Austrian alcohol duty and courier rules make everything else painful. A packed bottle weighs 1.3 kg, and three is the cheapest unit to send.

  • Chocolate and summer

    From June to September the torte and the wafers travel in an insulated box, or we ask you to collect. We will not post chocolate into a heatwave.

  • The glasses are the fragile ones

    Mouth-blown, walls under 2 mm. We double-box them and insure the parcel, and we would still rather hand them to you at the counter.

  • Nothing here is exclusive to us

    Every maker sells their own work too. We stock them because we send our own families home with these, not because we have a deal.

  • Collect before a concert

    Order by 15:00 and your parcel is at our office counter the same evening — on the way to the hall rather than after it.

The shop at a glance

Shipping zones, thresholds, counter hours and the return window checked against our own terms on .
What
15 souvenirs made in Vienna, from €8.00 (Wachau apricot jam, 340 g) to €135.00 (Hand-painted porcelain cup & saucer, pair)
Makers
Named on every product page: Hernals, the 2nd, 4th, 7th and 16th districts, the Nussberg vineyards
Prices
VAT included · €0 handling fee · no dynamic pricing, no fake discounts
Shipping
Austria €4.90, free over €80 · rest of the EU €9.90, free over €120 · rest of world €24.90, free over €250 · alcohol within the EU only
Collection
Free at our office counter during opening hours · same evening if ordered by 15:00
Stock
Either it is on the shelf or it is not. We count this shelf ourselves, so the number is printed as a fact — nothing here runs on a clock
Gift wrap
€4: grey board box, claret ribbon, hand-written card, no prices in the parcel
Returns
14 days from delivery on unopened goods, food and drink excepted by law · we pay return postage on damage
Good to know
A photograph appears here only once its rights are confirmed in our register; until then a product is drawn typographically and says so

Prices include 20% VAT, 10% on food and books, and the handling fee is €0 on every line. Every product page names the workshop that made the thing.

Not verified

No verification line for the maker facts: the workshops’ own sources — founding years, production numbers, recipes — were not re-read on that date, so those sentences are carried from the buying notes and are not re-verified against the makers themselves.

Questions we actually get

  • What does shipping cost?

    Austria €4.90, free over €80 of shop goods. The rest of the European Union €9.90, free over €120. Rest of the world €24.90, free over €250. The same figures run the checkout, and our handling fee is €0 on all three.

  • Can you deliver to my hotel?

    Yes, free inside Vienna: order by 12:00 the day before and it is at the reception desk from 15:00. Wine is the exception — someone has to sign for alcohol in person, so it is posted to a home address or collected at our counter.

  • What happens with customs outside the EU?

    Goods leaving the EU are zero-rated, so the price you pay us carries no Austrian VAT — and the import VAT and any duty are then collected by the courier before delivery. We cannot pay it for you and we would rather say so on this page than let it arrive as a surprise.

  • Can I collect instead of paying for shipping?

    Yes, free, at our office counter during opening hours. Order by 15:00 and it is waiting the same evening, which is the sensible route if you are at a concert that night. Our office page has the address, the door and the hours.

  • Can I change my mind?

    You have 14 days from the day the parcel is delivered to return unopened goods, food and drink excepted by law. If something arrives damaged we pay the return postage. A refund is started the same day and lands in three to five bank days, on the card that paid.

  • Do you gift wrap?

    €4 a parcel: a grey board box, claret ribbon and a card written by hand at the counter with whatever you dictate. The packing slip goes out without prices, so nobody unwraps a number.

  • Can I take a snow globe in my cabin bag?

    The 45 mm globe holds well under 100 ml and travels in the cabin. The 80 mm and 120 mm globes hold more than 100 ml of liquid, so they go in checked luggage — or we post them to your address instead.

  • Do you ship wine and spirits?

    Within the EU only, and never to a hotel — someone has to sign for it. A bottle weighs 1.3 kg packed; three bottles is the cheapest unit to send.

Can’t pick? Give the evening itself.

A gift card covers any concert, opera or carriage ride — delivered by email tonight or in a wax-sealed envelope.

Gift cards