Museum am Dom St. Pölten, Diocesan museum in St. Pölten, Austria

Museum am Dom St. Pölten is housed on the second floor of a former monastery building adjacent to St. Pölten Cathedral. The institution displays religious artworks including altars, paintings, textiles, and vessels spanning different periods of church history.

The museum was founded in 1888 and became Austria's first diocesan museum, situated within a monastic complex with roots dating back to the 8th century. Over time it developed into an important repository for preserving religious artworks and documents related to local church history.

The collection displays religious artworks from various periods and gives a sense of how craftsmanship developed in church traditions. Visitors see altars, sculptures, and liturgical objects that show how religious artistic practices changed over centuries.

The museum is located at Domplatz beside the cathedral and is open to visitors year-round. Guided tours of the episcopal chapel are offered and provide deeper insight into the spaces within the complex.

The Binderhof courtyard takes its name from the bindery once housed in its west wing; its north and south wings served as granaries during the monastery period. When the diocese was founded, these wings were converted into residences for the cathedral canons, and the north wing's former drying loft became offices in 1987/88.