Vorarlberg museum, State art museum in Bregenz, Austria.
The Vorarlberg Museum is an art museum in Bregenz that holds collections on regional history, archaeology, and folk traditions. Its exhibitions display objects from medieval times to the present, showing how people lived and worked here across different eras.
Founded in 1857 by the private Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsverein, the museum was the earliest in the Lake Constance area; until then there was only a joint Museum for Tirol and Vorarlberg in Innsbruck. Its first own building opened in 1860 in the Kaspar-Hagen-Straße, and the purpose-built house by Georg Baumeister at the Kornmarkt followed in 1905. In 1947/48 the collections and building passed to the state of Vorarlberg. Closed in October 2009, it reopened in June 2013 with double the exhibition space after the Cukrowicz Nachbaur redesign.
The museum's name changed from Vorarlberger Landesmuseum to vorarlberg museum in 2011, when designer Stefan Sagmeister presented a new corporate identity. Its exhibitions carry informal titles such as "Vorarlberg. A Making Of" and "Weltstadt oder so? Brigantium im 1. Jh. n. Chr.", the latter on Roman Brigantium.
The museum stands on Kornmarktplatz by Lake Constance, a short walk from Bregenz's harbour and railway station. The 2013 building by Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten replaced the 1905 house and absorbed the neighbouring former district administration building. A library of some 30,000 volumes on the museum's subjects is open to visitors.
The building's exterior is made from over 16,000 imprints of plastic bottle bottoms pressed into concrete. This pattern gives the structure an unexpected appearance that blends recycling with contemporary design.
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