Filmarchiv Austria

Filmarchiv Austria is an archive and museum in Laxenburg that collects and preserves about three million items related to film history. The collection includes films, photographs, posters, and technical equipment from different eras of cinema.

The institution was founded in 1955 and grew from an earlier film archive established in 1929 at the Austrian National Library. This connection shows how the archive developed from academic beginnings into a comprehensive collection.

The archive preserves films from different periods of Austrian cinema production, showing how filmmaking in the country evolved over the decades. The collection reflects the story of Austrian film from its earliest days to the present.

Visitors need to arrange appointments in advance to access the research facilities, film collection, and special holdings at the Audio-Visual Center Augarten. Planning your visit beforehand ensures you can see what interests you most.

The archive preserves complete black-and-white equipment from analog film laboratories, including hand-operated copy machines from the early silent film era. These machines give visitors a direct sense of how film production worked in cinema's earliest days.

Location: Laxenburg

Inception: October 17, 1955

Website: http://filmarchiv.at

GPS coordinates: 48.22022,16.37965

Latest update: December 12, 2025 12:03