The Salzburg Museum, which has been closed for construction work since the end of October, is making a virtue out of necessity: Its collection is giving guest performances at various cooperation partners in the city and state of Salzburg. “We want to be visible and stay in touch with our audience,” said museum director Martin Hochleitner at a press conference on Tuesday. He is also interested in strengthening existing collaborations with meaningful projects.
The press conference therefore also took place in the cathedral quarter, where cosmoramas, graphics, drawings and sketches by Hubert Sattler will be on display in the Northern Oratory from March under the title “Holy Places”. The saddler’s panorama – an impressive historical circular painting of the city of Salzburg – had to give way in autumn to the planned expansion of the museum and the new branch of the Belvedere in Salzburg. The circular painting is to be given a new location in the former Baroque Museum.
There will be a guest performance in the museum pavilion in Mirabell Gardens from August. The show focuses on graphics by Salzburg artists that were shown in the Mirabell Gardens between 1952 and 1968 – when the museum, which was badly damaged during the Second World War, used the pavilion for exhibitions. The Fotohof is planning a show with photographs from the Salzburg Museum’s collection. Chief curator Peter Husty announced that the Fotohof team had selected 100 photographs for which it was not known who took the picture. In the pipeline are, among other things, joint projects with the Galerie im Traklhaus, with the Architecture Initiative to honor the work of the Salzburg architect Gerhard Garstenauer on the occasion of the 100th birthday coming up in 2025, and with the Salzburger Kunstverein. Under the working title “Where are you from?” you want to deal with provenance research and the culture of remembrance. A guest performance on the subject of Gothic furniture art is also planned in May 2026 at the Leogang Mining and Gothic Museum.
A show about folklore collecting is being prepared at the locations not affected by the construction work in the Folklore Museum in the Monatschlössl in Hellbrunn, and an exhibition project with VALIE EXPORT is planned at the Hallein Celtic Museum. The fortress museum is to receive additional space for educational work; the toy museum is already a visitor magnet with 109,000 guests, large and small.
The background for the guest performances is the construction projects: The expansion of the museum’s location in the New Residence with the Belvedere Salzburg is on track; archaeological excavations are currently underway in the second courtyard of the residence, Hochleitner reported on the status of the work. He expects the shell construction to start in September 2024, with completion scheduled for 2026. The conversion of the former Baroque Museum into the Orangery Salzburg – Panorama Museum/World Heritage Center will also begin next year. The museum director explained that there are currently discussions about the roof design and the question of whether a roof terrace would be possible at this location. All partners involved would be interested in the best solution for the location. Hochleitner expects that the Panorama Museum can be reopened in time for Hubert Sattler’s 100th birthday.
There is also progress on the Sound of Music Museum project in Hellbrunn. Husty said with relief that the complicated negotiations over rights were in their final phase. Next year there will be the award of the general planning for the Sound of Music Salzburg as well as an architectural competition for the cathedral excavation museum/Roman museum Iuvavum.
Hochleitner is satisfied with the number of visitors – from January 1st to November 30th there were more than 811,000 guests at all locations. With 109,000 guests by November, the Toy Museum achieved a record result. There was also growth in the Folklore Museum in Hellbrunn; the exhibition on Fischer von Erlach in the Kunsthalle attracted a similar number of guests as the state exhibition on the 100th anniversary of the festival. The main building in the Neue Residenz, which closed at the end of October, was visited by 60,000 people. The Fortress Museum delivered the highest numbers with around 625,000 visitors. The utilization is now approaching the pre-Corona level, said Hochleitner.
(S E R V I C E – www.salzburgmuseum.at)
2023-12-12 13:18:16
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