Rupertinum Salzburger Landessammlungen, Art museum in Old Town, Salzburg, Austria
The Rupertinum is an art museum for contemporary works housed in a Baroque building in Old Town with roughly 700 square meters of exhibition space. The collection holds photographs and paintings by artists from around the world in various styles and media.
Archbishop Paris Lodron founded the Collegium Rupertinum in 1653 as a seminary for priest training. The building was adapted over centuries and officially converted into a museum for modern art in 1974.
The courtyard displays ceramic artworks by Friedensreich Hundertwasser that mark the building with colorful and organic forms that visitors see when entering. These pieces are part of how the space has become a place for contemporary art rather than its original religious function.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday and allows visitors to explore multiple exhibition spaces with a single ticket. The timing makes it easy to combine a visit here with time spent exploring other sites in Old Town.
The building houses one of the country's largest photography collections with thousands of images spanning different eras and subjects. The collection is regularly rearranged to show different perspectives on history and contemporary culture.
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