Orangerie Salzburg – Panorama | Welterbe

An image as far as the eye can see: Johann Michael Sattler depicts the city of Salzburg and its surroundings in the circular painting created between 1826 and 1829.

A view as far as the eye can see

In the Panorama Museum, visitors gaze from a platform at a gigantic circular painting that offers a view of Salzburg and its surroundings around the year 1829. The unique city panorama by Johann Michael Sattler has a circumference of 26 m and measures 130 m². Notable sights and many details from the daily lives of citizens 200 years ago can be seen.

Cultural-historical painting series

Additionally, the Panorama Museum houses around 130 cosmoramas by Sattler's son Hubert. These provide onlookers with the opportunity to get to know locations from around the world more closely. The images were created with meticulous brushwork and are characterized by strict realism as well as a precise attention to detail that is unparalleled.

History & Restoration

Johann Michael Sattler (1786–1847) first presented his panorama of the city of Salzburg on Easter Sunday in 1829 in a tent at what is now Makartplatz to the astonished Salzburg audience. The panorama painting then became the first great tourism advertisement for Salzburg: the family toured Europe with it for ten years. The 5 m high and 26 m long oil painting was packaged on a houseboat and exhibited in many European cities in a specially constructed wooden pavilion. Even then, all of Europe took notice of the beauties of Salzburg and its surroundings.

Back in Salzburg, it was shown in a round building in the present Mirabellgarten until 1937, and from 1977 to 2001 in the former Café Winkler on Mönchsberg. After extensive renovation, it was reopened in 2005 in the former post office hall at Residenzplatz - the Panorama Museum.

In 2026, the historic circular painting – near the site of its original installation, in close proximity to the Mirabellgarten – will be the outstanding centerpiece of the new institution for conveying the World Heritage of Salzburg.