Graz Museum, City history museum in Graz, Austria
The Graz Museum occupies the baroque Palais Khuenburg at Sackstraße 18, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born in 1863. Its permanent exhibition "360GRAZ | Die Stadt von allen Zeiten" is laid out as an open study depot in four chronological sections, from the closed city of 1128–1600 to the suburbanised city since 1914. A second branch sits on the Stallbastei of the Schloßberg.
The museum was founded in 1928 for Graz's 800th anniversary by the city, the Joanneum, the university, the technical university and the Styrian archives. It opened exhibition rooms in Palais Attems in 1938, moved to Schloss Eggenberg in 1951, returned to the city in 1969 and has occupied Palais Khuenburg since 1972. Renamed Graz Museum in 2012, it won the Austrian Museum Prize in 2024.
The collection shows how residents of this Styrian city shape their everyday lives and how tradition and modern times exist together here. Visitors see objects and images that tell about the roles that crafts, trade, and family played and still play in people's lives.
The building is centrally located and easily reached on foot, with clear signs in the gallery rooms for simple navigation. Visitors should plan about 1 to 2 hours to look through the collections without rushing.
The museum runs the Topotheque Graz, an open digital collection where residents can upload their personal photographs and records. This creates a living archive that grows every day through new perspectives from people who actually live in the city.
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