Archiv der Salzburger Festspiele
The Salzburg Festival Archive is one of the most comprehensive theatre archives in Austria, providing insight into more than 100 years of Festival history.
Founded in 1962, the archive contains a wide range of sources relating to the history of the Festival:
- Schedules, programmes, posters
- Various performance materials such as director’s books, set and costume designs, incidental music
- Building plans of the festival theatres
- Photographs, minutes and correspondence
- Estates of well-known Festival personalities such as Oscar Fritz Schuh
- The holdings of the former Max Reinhardt Research Centre
- A specialist library
A permanent exhibition on the ground floor of the Festival Archive offers insights into the history of the institution.
