Hallstatt Museum, Heritage museum in Hallstatt, Austria.

The Hallstatt Museum is an archaeological museum in the center of Hallstatt, Austria, housed in a former parsonage. It displays finds from the local salt mines and ancient burial grounds of the region, covering objects from the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and the Roman period.

The museum was founded in 1844, making it Upper Austria's second museum after the Landesmuseum. In 1846 Johann Georg Ramsauer, Bergmeister of the Habsburg salt mines, began excavations in the cemeteries around the mines, continued until 1867 with assistant Isodor Engl. In 1884 the Hallstatt Museum Association formed a collection; in 2002 the museum reopened in the former parsonage, with objects returned from Vienna.

Hallstatt is the type site of the Hallstatt culture, the early Iron Age culture named after the village. The museum displays finds from the local salt mines and from the cemeteries near them, including about 19,497 grave goods recorded by Johann Georg Ramsauer, roughly half inhumations and half cremations.

The museum sits in the heart of Hallstatt's town center and is easy to reach on foot from most points in the village. The rooms are not large, so visiting outside of peak season makes for a more comfortable experience.

Ramsauer's Protokoll, begun in 1846 at the suggestion of the Museum Francisco-Carolinum, records about 980 burials and some 19,497 grave goods, slightly over half inhumations and the rest cremations. The watercolour drawings were largely made by his assistant Isodor Engl. In 1859 Ramsauer asked Kaiser Franz Joseph I to publish it, but the cost of colour printing led to refusal; the record is now held in Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum.