List of museums in Carinthia (state)
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This list of museums in the state of Carinthia, Austria contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
The list[]
Name | Image | Location | Type | Summary |
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Feldkirchen | Local | website, local history, culture, natural history | ||
Globasnitz | Archaeology | website, archaeological excavations carried out on the Hemmaberg Mountain and the East-Gothic cemetery | ||
Magdalensberg | Open-air | website, excavated Roman buildings and artifacts | ||
Althofen | Science | website, life and discoveries of scientist and inventor Carl Auer von Welsbach including gas lightings, metal filament light bulbs and pocket lighters, and an originally equipped laboratory | ||
Mallnitz | Natural history | website, natural science of the Alps | ||
Seeboden | Art | website, art of bonsai and Japanese garden design | ||
Friesach | Historic house | website, modern hand-built construction of an early medieval castle complex | ||
Burg Sommeregg | Seeboden | History | Features a museum of medieval torture | |
Maria Saal | Open-air | website, Austrian traditional farmhouses and rural craft buildings | ||
Baldramsdorf | Art | website, rural crafts and working workshops including farming, working in wood, leather, metal, textiles, food making, construction | ||
Klagenfurt | Art | website | ||
Ferlach | Natural history | information, seasonal, bee keeping and products | ||
Moosburg | History | website, features archaeological artifacts dating back to the Carolingian dynasty | ||
Rosegg | Open-air | website, recreated Celtic buildings | ||
Metnitz | Art | website, large Austrian frescoes showing a 15th-century death dance | ||
Eboardmuseum | Klagenfurt | Music | website, Europe's largest collection of electronic keyboard instruments | |
Klagenfurt | Agriculture | website, area peasant farm life from manual labor to machine labor | ||
Globasnitz | Historic house | website | ||
Winklern | Doll | website, local culture and life shown through dolls | ||
Gmünd | Local | information, story of the last person to be sent to the gallows from Gmünd | ||
Klagenfurt | Art | website, Baroque coat of arms paintings in the former palace | ||
Villach | Art | website, municipal art gallery of Austrian and international contemporary art | ||
Friesach City Museum | Friesach | Local | Local history, mining, trade, culture | |
Maria Saal | Local | website, natural history, archaeology, industry, history, crafts, culture | ||
Radenthein | Mining | website, garnet mining | ||
Hüttenberg | Biographical | website, life and travels of explorer and mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, ethnographic artifacts | ||
Hüttenberg | Doll | website, local culture and life shown through dolls | ||
Hochosterwitz Castle | Sankt Veit an der Glan | Historic house | Medieval fortress castle | |
Klagenfurt | Mining | website, mining, minerals, fossils, | ||
Klagenfurt | Art | website | ||
Mining | website, local mining, minerals, tour of an old mine | |||
Klagenfurt | Biography | information, memorial to the famous Carinthian musician and columnist Thomas Koschat | ||
Maria Luggau | Mill | website, working watermills open for tour | ||
Millstatt Abbey | Millstatt | History | History of the former abbey and local history and culture | |
Feldkirchen | Local | website | ||
Molzbichl | History | website, early Medieval pottery, jewelry, church artifacts | ||
Nötsch | Art | website, modern art, features art by , Anton Kolig, Franz Wiegele and | ||
Ferlach | Transportation | website, heritage railroad, technology museum, model trains, trams | ||
Wolfsberg | Local | website, culture, history, nature, people of the Lavant valley region | ||
Neuhaus | Art | website, contemporary art | ||
St. Veit | Transportation | website, railways, postal service, telecommunication, motorization, model trains, town history | ||
Gmünd | Transportation | website, private museum of Porsche vehicles | ||
Art | website, naturalistic and abstract sculpture | |||
Klagenfurt | History | website, area history and natural history | ||
Klagenfurt | Biography | website, life and work of writer Robert Musil | ||
Archaeology | website, excavated Roman settlement | |||
Schloss Porcia | Spittal an der Drau | Multiple | Includes the Museum of Popular Culture | |
Schloss Rosegg | Rosegg | Multiple | Includes room displays with life-size wax figures, a wildlife park and a maze | |
Schloss Straßburg | Straßburg | Multiple | Includes rural life artifacts, textile, pipes, changing exhibits | |
Friesach | Transportation | website, guesthouse with collection of Porsche vehicles | ||
St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal | Sankt Paul im Lavanttal | Art | Benedictine monastery with large collections of graphics, coins, sacred art and painting | |
Villach | Transportation | website, cars, motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, motor-assisted bicycles | ||
Villach | Local | website, local history, art, culture | ||
Völkermarkt | Local | website | ||
Composing hut of Gustav Mahler | Maria Wörth | Gustav Mahler | website | |
Bleiburg | Art | website, work by area artist Werner Berg | ||
Wood Museum | Gnesau | Art | website, art and wood carvings, woodworking tools |
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