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LifeArt. 800 years since the death of St Francis of Assisi
Residenzgalerie Salzburg
To mark the 800th anniversary of the death of Francis of Assisi, the Cathedral Museum, in collaboration with the Münster Association for Franciscan Research, is planning an exhibition that will shed light on his life…
Stano Filko. 12 Chakras of Becoming
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Stano Filko was one of the most visionary and most radical protagonists of the Central European neo-avantgarde. The Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg dedicates a…
The Day Is Gone: 100 Years of the New Objectivity
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Between the 1920s and 1930s, this exhibition of works in the style of the New Objectivity takes visitors from the artist's studio into the streets of the vibrant metropolis, to the theatre, and finally into the night.…
Curiosity in Flux: Art from Salzburg between Fresh Start and Recollection
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
The exhibition brings together works by artists with roots in Salzburg and opens up diverse perspectives on an ostensibly familiar place. Cultural participation and curiosity are at the center of the accompanying…
Huda Takriti. Anatomy of an Endless Scene
Residenzgalerie Salzburg
The Cathedral Museum Salzburg, in cooperation with the Kardinal König Art Fund of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, presents an artistic intervention by Huda Takriti, recipient of the Kardinal König Art Award 2026.
Ernst Caramelle. Figures of Thought
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Ernst Caramelle is one of the most prominent international exponents of Austrian conceptual art. Since the 1970s, he has probed the unstable relationship between reality and illusion, between the picture and the…
Irma Rafaela Toledo. Painting as Freedom Unfolding
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Irma Rafaela Toledo did not fulfill her wish to work as a painter until after the Second World War. Born into a Jewish merchant family, she survived by hiding in the mountains near Salzburg during the last two years of…
Kokoschka’s Backgrounds
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
With Kokoschka's Backgrounds, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg presents an exhibition at its Old Town venue (Rupertinum) that offers insights into Kokoschka's compositions. The focus is on the evolution of his pictorial…
Reading and Media Lounge
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Set in the heart of Salzburg’s old town, the redesigned reading and media lounge at the Rupertinum invites the public to read, look, and rest. It offers selected literature from the libraries of the Museum der Moderne…
Why Are You Creative? By Hermann Vaske
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
What makes an idea a good idea? What defines the genius of creative people? For more than thirty years, filmmaker and author Hermann Vaske has posed these questions to some of the most influential writers, artists,…
The Cross of St Rupert. An icon of mediæval art treasure
Residenzgalerie Salzburg
The Cross of St Rupert is the oldest and most important treasure of the Cathedral Museum and a major masterpiece of 8th-century European art. After the completion of urgently needed conservation measures the cross will…
Restless Orders. Sculpture and Human Existence since 1945
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Sculpture can give physical form to inner states, charge an everyday object with desire, or make social constraints tangible. What a sculpture can be has changed fundamentally again and again since 1945. Restless Orders…
Europasaurus – Jurassic Island Life
Haus der Natur
Discover a fascinating world from 154 million years ago, when Europe was still made up of many tropical islands in a shallow sea. Along the way, meet the little Europasaurus, a unique creature of that era. The…
Aquarium
Haus der Natur
Keeping live animals is useful for many purposes. Firstly, visitors can observe exotic and local living creatures up close in environments designed to be lifelike. While getting to know their behavior and needs, at the…
Christian Doppler – Genius from Salzburg
Haus der Natur
Christian Andreas Doppler was a native of Salzburg and a genius in mathematics and physics. His discovery still wields a great influence on the world today: the Doppler Effect makes it possible for modern medicine to…
Crystal Treasures
Haus der Natur
When you set out in search for buried treasure, if you want to strike it rich, this is the place to be: crystals from the High Tauern and throughout the whole world offer testimonial to the beauty of inanimate nature.…
The Earth Through the Ages
Haus der Natur
Since its origin, our earth has undergone a process of continual transformation. Continents drift away from one another and join together again before breaking away once more . . . The distribution of the earth’s…
Ice Age and Climate
Haus der Natur
The exhibition "Ice Age and Climate" provides insights into the last 2.6 million years of the Earth's history. The Ice Age is characterized by a constantly changing climate, which changed our landscapes as well as the…
Evolution - Humans & Diversity
Haus der Natur
A human-cougar ensemble by artist Nelly Schmücking forms the introduction to the first theme of the exhibition: the diversity of life that developed from the first primordial cell around 3.5 billion years ago and the…
Habitats Diorama
Haus der Natur
Dioramas are a classic museum exhibit. With great skill and craftsmanship, they offer a three-dimensional, lifelike representation of landscapes and the creatures that inhabit them. Well-made dioramas literally…
Journey into the Human Body
Haus der Natur
How do our lungs, liver, and kidneys work? What makes our heart beat? Why is the way to a man’s heart through his stomach? In the new exhibit at the Haus der Natur, we’ll discover our never-resting inner life from a…
Salzach Lifeline
Haus der Natur
From its origin around 2300 meters above sea level to its mouth in the Inn River at about 340 meters above sea level, the Salzach River flows over 226 kilometers. In this exhibit, we can follow its course in a very…
Man and Animal ins Fables and Myths
Haus der Natur
Since time immemorial, many phenomena in our environment have seemed mysterious and frightening to us. Unable to be explained by the knowledge of earlier times they became fertile ground for human fantasy. Thus elephant…
Our Universe – Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
Haus der Natur
The outer space exhibit at the Haus der Natur whisks us away on a journey through space and time. It gives us a glimpse of distant galaxies, tells us the story of the birth of our solar system, and guides us through the…