Museums & Sightseeing in Salzburg
Gives the visitor a look at the province's cultural history from the prehistoric age to modern times. Founded in 1834 by M.V. Süss as a "municipal museum". Patronized by Caroline Auguste. Precious works of art including the famous Celtic flagon from the Dürrnberg. The Museum of Natural History with its 80 exhibition rooms is located directly across the street.
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The Salzburg Baroque Museum was installed in the southern wing of the former Orangery in 1973. The works of art on display are first-rate examples of progressive sketches and designs of monumental structures in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Salzburg's Cathedral Museum was founded in 1974 and is installed in the southern oratories of the Cathedral, the southern Cathedral arches and the adjacent Long Aisle - the old "Court Gallery". The exhibits range from the Anglo-Saxon St. Rupert's crucifix (8th century) to the curiosities of the archiepiscopal Art and Rarities Collection.
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The Church of the Holy Trinity is the most significant sacred building on the right bank of the Old City and the first church designed by the great Baroque architect Fischer von Erlach. The dominant dome, the sweeping façade, the twin towers and the palace-type wings are definitely the eye-catcher on Makart Square.
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Most interesting church in Salzburg from an architectural point of view. Dates back to a structure built during the 8th century. A new basilica was built in 1220. Baroque high altar designed by Fischer von Erlach with Gothic Madonna by Michael Pacher. The Rupertinum, a museum of modern art and part of Salzburg's Provincial Collections, is located across the street.
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George Trakl was born in Salzburg in 1887 as the son of an ironmonger. He died at the age of 27 at the outset of World War I in the garnison hospital in Cracow. Within only a few years he had written a body of literature which gave him a special rank in the German lyric poetry of the 20th century.
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Salzburg's Museum of Natural History is located in the center of the Old City. Over 300,000 visitors each year admire everything nature has to offer displayed in some 80 exhibition rooms.
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The purpose of the International Mozarteum Foundation is "to perform and propagate Mozart's music and music in general, to broaden the public's knowledge of Mozart and his creative work and to preserve the memory of Mozart, his work and his family".
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The Kapuzinerberg, at 636 m the highest elevation in the city, represents the northern end of the calcareous alps within the city limits. Formerly known as the "Imberg", the Kapuzinerberg has a long history: Settlements on the eastern slope towards the part of town known as Gnigl have been traced back to the Neolithic period and two settlement sites discovered above the Capuchin Monastery date back to around 1000 B.C. It is also assumed that one settlement site may have originated during the La T?ne period.
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Salzburg's Residence Gallery is a collection maintained by the Salzburg province which continues the tradition of similar art collections put together by the Baroque nobility, ideally supplementing the city's Baroque character. It enjoys a high status in the artistic and cultural life of Salzburg all year round.
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The Catholic school founded by Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus was raised to the status of a university in 1622 by Archbishop Paris Lodron, giving it the same standing and the same rights as other universities in Italy, France and Germany. Reconstruction of the university building commenced in 1631 according to plans by the Cathedral architect, Santino Solari.
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The ancient Linzergasse, a street located at the foot of the Kapuzinerberg (Capuchin Mountain) stretching from the "Platzl" at the Staatsbrücke (State Bridge) to where the Linzer Tor (Gate to Linz) stood until 1894, has not lost any of its bustle throughout the centuries. The street was the city's main thoroughfare on the right bank of the Salzach River from the time of the Romans and the main exit road from the capital and residential city of Salzburg towards Linz, Vienna and the northeastern kingdom of the Habsburgs.
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In 1588 Archbishop Wolf Dietrich commenced with the construction of the new building located across from the Residenz, intended to accommodate his royal guests.
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The Rupertinum was opened to the public in February 1983 as a museum of modern art. It occupies an early Baroque house in the Old City which was purchased from the estate of the archdiocese for this purpose. The former boarding school was adapted by Salzburg's provincial government and presently houses the Modern Gallery, the Prints Collection and the Austrian Photograph Gallery as part of the Provincial Collections.
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Traditional Salzburg Costumes - past and present
A fine exhibition of traditional everyday and festive dress as worn in the city and Province of Salzburg - examples of historical dress.
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Toy Museum with toys made of wood, clay and pewter, the world of dolls and doll-houses, old and new railroads, optical illusions and educational toys...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about beer can be found out at Stiegl's "Brauwelt" - the largest exhibition of beers in Europe.
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The Nonnberg Benedictine Convent, founded around 700 by St. Rupert is the oldest surviving religious community for women in the German-speaking world.
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Salzburg's Hellbrunn Zoo keeping animals, both native and exotic, in an environment close to their natural surroundings has become the hallmark of Salzburg's Hellbrunn Zoo.
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Admire many historical marionettes from Salzburg`s famous Marionette Theatre, for example: Papageno and Papagena from Mozart`s "Zauberflöte" as well as exhibits from numerous countries and asia.
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Hohensalzburg Fortress towers high above Salzburg's baroque City. The castle is not baroque but distinctly medieval. Moreover, it is the largest preserved medieval fortification in Europe.
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The Hellbrunn Monatsschlösschen, which was built in 1615 - as its name suggests - within the record time of only a month, today houses a unique folklore museum.
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