Salzburg Museum
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A major construction project will be carried out in the heart of Salzburg's Old Town: on the one hand, the Province of Salzburg plans complete renovation of the New Residenz; on the other, Salzburg Museum will expand into the second inner courtyard of the New Residenz and, in collaboration with the Austrian Galerie Belvedere, will establish the "Belvedere Salzburg". Due to this work, the Salzburg Museum in the New Residenz will likely remain closed until autumn 2026.
Award-winning Salzburg Museum in the New Residenz is a museum with character. In an area totalling 3,000 m2, permanent exhibitions and alternating special exhibitions show the art and cultural history of the Town and the Province of Salzburg.
On the first floor of the New Residenz, Salzburg Museum demonstrates Salzburg's distinctive quality with objects from all fields of the collection. From ancient times up to the present: modern, interestingly designed rooms take the visitor through the ages, explaining how Salzburg developed into its present unique form.
On the second floor of the New Residenz, the "myth" of Salzburg is investigated. In pictures and texts, Romantic-age painters, writers and scholars spread their enthusiasm for the Salzburg region throughout Europe. Visitors learn how Salzburg rose to become a baroque town, how the urban structures developed after the archbishopric was secularised in 1803, and how tourism gained momentum, resulting in the "myth" of the town.
The art gallery in Salzburg Museum is under the inner courtyard of the New Residenz. It is a two-part, multi-functional hall with a luminous ceiling extending throughout. Every year, three major special exhibitions are presented in these exceptional premises.
- Panorama Museum
- Salzburg Carillon
- Toy Museum
- Fortress Museum
- Folklore Museum
- Cathedral Excavation Museum
- DomQuartier | North Oratory
- Celtic Museum, Hallein
- Silent Night Museum, Hallein
