List of museums in Salzburg (state)
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This list of museums in the state of Salzburg (state), 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.
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Name | Image | Location | Type | Summary |
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Hallein | Art | website, art gallery | ||
Bramberg am Wildkogel | Local | information, local history, culture, minerals | ||
Dorfgastein | Historic house | website, castle tours with exhibits on history, hunting, minerals, and the Gastein Valley trade route | ||
Burg Mauterndorf | Mauterndorf | Historic house | Medieval castle tours with life-size figures displaying castle life | |
Salzburg | Archaeology | website, excavated artifacts | ||
Hallein | History | website, history and culture of the Celts in the area | ||
Die Bachschmiede | Wals-Siezenheim | Local | Local history, art, culture, performing arts and cultural centre | |
Wagrain | Agriculture | website[permanent dead link], working traditional hill farm | ||
Mittersill | Local | website, country arts and crafts, folk culture and heritage, minerals, sacred art, history of Alpine skiing | ||
Fotohof | Salzburg | Photography | Center for Photography: gallery, publishing house, library, archive, workshops | |
Thomatal | Mining | website, restored blast furnace used for smelting | ||
Salzburg | Biographical | website, birthplace and life of poet Georg Trakl | ||
Hallein Salt Mine | Hallein | Mining | Tours of the underground salt mine | |
Salzburg | Natural history | website, dinosaurs, geology, animals, human body, space, Christian Doppler, an aquarium and a reptile zoo | ||
Saalfelden | Multiple | website, minerals and fossils, carved nativity scenes, votive tablets, period room displays, agriculture, art exhibits | ||
Hellbrunn Palace | Salzburg | History | Palace with trick gardens, museum of Salzburg folk culture including customs, folk piety, home living and folk medicine | |
Hohensalzburg Fortress | Salzburg | Historic house | Medieval fortress with military exhibits, also houses the Marionette Museum | |
Hohenwerfen Castle | Werfen | Historic house | Medieval fortress with historical falconry centre | |
Hüttschlag | Local | website, rural life, mining | ||
Hintersee | Toy | website, collection of dolls, teddy bears, dollhouses and toys | ||
Wagrain | Literary | website[permanent dead link], home of author Karl Heinrich Waggerl, features exhibit about composer Joseph Mohr | ||
Rauris | Natural history | website, birds of prey, located in Nationalpark Hohe Tauern | ||
Krimml | Natural history | website, watershed of the Krimml Waterfalls | ||
Werfenweng | Sport | website, equipment, history and memorabilia of Alpine skiing | ||
Salzburg | Puppet | website, located in Hohensalzburg Fortress, features historic puppets of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre | ||
Salzburg | Biographical | website, life of musician Michael Haydn | ||
Michaelbeuern Abbey | Dorfbeuern | Religious | Abbey tours and religious art and artifacts | |
Leogang | Multiple | website, medieval period miner's house, minerals, late medieval religious art, tours of a show mine | ||
Bad Gastein | Multiple | website, gold mining, salt, agriculture | ||
Mozart's Birthplace | Salzburg | Biographical | website, life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family | |
Salzburg | Biographical | website, reconstructed 18th-century home of the family of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | ||
St. Gilgen | History | website, society and culture during the lifetime of the Mozart family | ||
Bischofshofen | Multiple | website, archaeology, sacred art, sculptures, paintings, liturgical instruments | ||
Ebenau | Local | website, local history, forging tools and equipment, agriculture, hunting, forestry, defense | ||
Ebenau | Local | website, rural life, mining, crafts | ||
Salzburg | Art | website, two locations in Salzburg | ||
Mittersill | Natural history | website, one of the visitor centres for Hohe Tauern National Park | ||
Mariapfarr | Religious | website, ecclesiastical art and treasures of the parish church | ||
Residenzgalerie | Salzburg | Art | Painting from the 16th to the 19th centuries | |
Wallsee-Sindelburg | History | website, Ancient Roman artifacts and life in the area | ||
Salzburg | Art | website, progressive sketches and designs of monumental structures in the 17th and 18th centuries | ||
Salzburg Cathedral | Salzburg | Historic house | 17th-century baroque cathedral with collection of goldsmith works, textiles, sculptures and paintings of the Middle Ages and the Baroque | |
Salzburg Museum | Salzburg | Local | City history, furniture, archaeology, contemporary art exhibits, panorama of the city | |
Großgmain | Open-air | website, over 100 reconstructed original buildings from agriculture, handicrafts, rural business and industry | ||
Salzburg Residenz | Salzburg | Historic house | City palace of the Archbishops of Salzburg | |
St. Georgen | Local | website | ||
Oberndorf bei Salzburg | History | website, location of the first performance of Silent Night, history of its origin | ||
Lamprechtshausen | Biographical | website, life of schoolteacher Franz Xaver Gruber, composer of Silent Night | ||
Hallein | History | website, early 19th-century period home of Franz Xaver Gruber, composer of Silent Night | ||
Mariapfarr | Biographical | website, life of composer Joseph Mohr | ||
Salzburg | Children's | website, toys | ||
Salzburg | Art | website, life and work of author Stefan Zweig | ||
Salzburg | Beverage | website, history of beer brewing | ||
Taurach Railway | Mauterndorf | Railway | Heritage railway | |
Grödig | Mining | website, marble quarrying and its effects on area economic, social and art history | ||
Kaprun | Automobile | website, classic cars from the 1950s to 1970s | ||
Water Museum | Salzburg | History | website, elevated water tank and history of the city's water supply |
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