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This list of museums in the state of Salzburg (state), Austria contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
Name | Image | Location | Type | Summary |
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1 Blick Hallein | Hallein | Art | website, art gallery | |
Bramberg Heritage & Mineral Museum | Bramberg am Wildkogel | Local | information, local history, culture, minerals | |
Burg Klammstein | Dorfgastein | Historic house | website, castle tours with exhibits on history, hunting, minerals, and the Gastein Valley trade route | |
Burg Mauterndorf | Mauterndorf | Historic house | Medieval castle tours with life-size figures displaying castle life | |
Cathedral Excavations Museum | Salzburg | Archaeology | website, excavated artifacts | |
Celtic Museum Hallein | Hallein | History | website, history and culture of the Celts in the area | |
Die Bachschmiede | Wals-Siezenheim | Local | Local history, art, culture, performing arts and cultural centre | |
Edelweiss-Alm Farm Museum | Wagrain | Agriculture | website [ permanent dead link ], working traditional hill farm | |
Felberturm Museum Mittersill | Mittersill | Local | website, country arts and crafts, folk culture and heritage, minerals, sacred art, history of Alpine skiing | |
Fotohof | Salzburg | Photography | Center for Photography: gallery, publishing house, library, archive, workshops | |
Furnace Museum | Thomatal | Mining | website, restored blast furnace used for smelting | |
Georg Trakl Memorial Center | Salzburg | Biographical | website, birthplace and life of poet Georg Trakl | |
Hallein Salt Mine | Hallein | Mining | Tours of the underground salt mine | |
Haus der Natur | Salzburg | Natural history | website, dinosaurs, geology, animals, human body, space, Christian Doppler, an aquarium and a reptile zoo | |
Heimatmuseum Schloss Ritzen | Saalfelden | Multiple | website, minerals and fossils, carved nativity scenes, votive tablets, period room displays, agriculture, art exhibits | |
Hellbrunn Palace | Salzburg | History | Palace with trick gardens, museum of Salzburg folk culture including customs, folk piety, home living and folk medicine | |
Hohensalzburg Fortress | Salzburg | Historic house | Medieval fortress with military exhibits, also houses the Marionette Museum | |
Hohenwerfen Castle | Werfen | Historic house | Medieval fortress with historical falconry centre | |
Hüttschlag Valley Museum | Hüttschlag | Local | website, rural life, mining | |
Joseph Mohr House | Hintersee | Toy | website, collection of dolls, teddy bears, dollhouses and toys | |
Karl Heinrich Waggerl Museum | Wagrain | Literary | website [ permanent dead link ], home of author Karl Heinrich Waggerl, features exhibit about composer Joseph Mohr | |
King of the Skies House | Rauris | Natural history | website, birds of prey, located in Nationalpark Hohe Tauern | |
Krimml Wonder World of Water | Krimml | Natural history | website, watershed of the Krimml Waterfalls | |
Landesskimuseum Werfenweng | Werfenweng | Sport | website, equipment, history and memorabilia of Alpine skiing | |
Marionette Museum | Salzburg | Puppet | website, located in Hohensalzburg Fortress, features historic puppets of the Salzburg Marionette Theatre | |
Michael-Haydn-Museum | Salzburg | Biographical | website, life of musician Michael Haydn | |
Michaelbeuern Abbey | Dorfbeuern | Religious | Abbey tours and religious art and artifacts | |
Mining and Gothic Museum Leogang | Leogang | Multiple | website, medieval period miner's house, minerals, late medieval religious art, tours of a show mine | |
Montanmuseum Altböckstein | Bad Gastein | Multiple | website, gold mining, salt, agriculture | |
Mozart's Birthplace | Salzburg | Biographical | website, life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family | |
Mozart's Residence | Salzburg | Biographical | website, reconstructed 18th-century home of the family of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | |
Mozarthaus St. Gilgen | St. Gilgen | History | website, society and culture during the lifetime of the Mozart family | |
Museum am Kastenturm | Bischofshofen | Multiple | website, archaeology, sacred art, sculptures, paintings, liturgical instruments | |
Museum in Prince Stoeckl | Ebenau | Local | website, local history, forging tools and equipment, agriculture, hunting, forestry, defense | |
Museum in the Widumspfiste | Ebenau | Local | website, rural life, mining, crafts | |
Museum of Modern Art Salzburg | Salzburg | Art | website, two locations in Salzburg | |
National Park Worlds | Mittersill | Natural history | website, one of the visitor centres for Hohe Tauern National Park | |
Pilgrimage and Parish Museum Mariapfarr | Mariapfarr | Religious | website, ecclesiastical art and treasures of the parish church | |
Residenzgalerie | Salzburg | Art | Painting from the 16th to the 19th centuries | |
Roman Museum Wallsee-Sindelburg | Wallsee-Sindelburg | History | website, Ancient Roman artifacts and life in the area | |
Salzburg Baroque Museum | Salzburg | Art | website, progressive sketches and designs of monumental structures in the 17th and 18th centuries | |
Salzburg Cathedral | Salzburg | Historic house | 17th-century baroque cathedral with collection of goldsmith works, textiles, sculptures and paintings of the Middle Ages and the Baroque | |
Salzburg Museum | Salzburg | Local | City history, furniture, archaeology, contemporary art exhibits, panorama of the city | |
Salzburg Open Air Museum | Großgmain | Open-air | website, over 100 reconstructed original buildings from agriculture, handicrafts, rural business and industry | |
Salzburg Residenz | Salzburg | Historic house | City palace of the Archbishops of Salzburg | |
Sigl House Museum | St. Georgen | Local | website | |
Silent Night and Heritage Museum Oberndorf | Oberndorf bei Salzburg | History | website, location of the first performance of Silent Night , history of its origin | |
Silent Night Museum Arnsdorf | Lamprechtshausen | Biographical | website, life of schoolteacher Franz Xaver Gruber, composer of Silent Night | |
Silent Night Museum Hallein | Hallein | History | website, early 19th-century period home of Franz Xaver Gruber, composer of Silent Night | |
Silent Night Museum Mariapfarr | Mariapfarr | Biographical | website, life of composer Joseph Mohr | |
Spielzug Museum | Salzburg | Children's | website, toys | |
Stefan Zweig Centre | Salzburg | Art | website, life and work of author Stefan Zweig | |
Stiegl-Brauwelt | Salzburg | Beverage | website, history of beer brewing | |
Taurach Railway | Mauterndorf | Railway | Heritage railway | |
Untersberg Museum | Grödig | Mining | website, marble quarrying and its effects on area economic, social and art history | |
Vehicle Museum Helmut Vötter | Kaprun | Automobile | website, classic cars from the 1950s to 1970s | |
Water Museum | Salzburg | History | website, elevated water tank and history of the city's water supply | |
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