Housed in the Neuen Residenz, the Salzburg Museum is the museum of artistic and cultural history for the city and region of Salzburg, Austria. The Salzburg Museum was founded in 1834 when a small collection of military memorabilia was made accessible to the public to formalize the memories of the Napoleonic wars. The Salzburg Museum is living proof that a modern museum can inform and yet at the same time entertain its visitors.
When the widow of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I moved to Salzburg, she became the trustee of the collection. After the revolution in 1848, the collection became the official town museum of Salzburg
In 2009, the museum received the European Museum of the Year Award. This is the longest running and most prestigious museum award in Europe, presented each year by theEuropean Museum Forum under the auspices of the Council of Europe
Archeological finds from the excavations in the New Residence, including a painted Roman wall can be found in the Panorama Passage, an underground passage between the Salzburg Museum and the Panorama Museum. In addition, models of the city, a number of crafted objects and historic data portray Salzburg's development from Roman times to the present.
The New Residence on Mozart Square has housed the Salzburg Museum since the summer of 2007. The museum's fully new concept blends valuable objects of art, aesthetic presentations, interesting facts and multimedia installations into a harmonious whole.
Hands-on exploration is a fundamental concept at the Salzburg Toy Museum. The museum not only has historic toy collections on display but a vast array of toys that children can play with.
Together with the original Rupertinum building at the centre of the Old Town, the two Museum of Modern Art buildings provide around 3,000 square metres of exhibition space for thematic exhibitions of 20th and 21st century art, as well as for presentations from the permanent collection and the Austrian Gallery of Photography.
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