Taxispalais, Baroque palace in Innsbruck, Austria

The Taxispalais is a three-storey baroque palace at Maria-Theresien-Straße 45, built as a horseshoe-shaped three-wing structure around a rectangular courtyard. Its street facade has a rusticated ground floor with the portal on the central axis, flanked by two Tuscan columns carrying reclining lion sculptures that support a balcony with basket grille. The central tract has nine axes, the two narrower side wings eleven each.

The palace was built in 1679 by architect Johann Martin Gumpp the Elder for Hans Otto Fugger. It later became a residence and postal station for the Thurn und Taxis family.

The Taxispalais – Kunsthalle Tirol, the state of Tyrol's official hall for contemporary art, opened in 1964 with only 75 m² of exhibition space. A conversion by architect Hanno Schlögl in 1998/99, incorporating the courtyard, expanded it to 500 m². Changing exhibitions are accompanied by symposia, discussions and lectures.

The palace stands at Maria-Theresien-Straße 45 and is linked to the neighbouring Landhaus by a connecting structure added in 1911. The interior cannot be visited except for the rooms of the Taxispalais – Kunsthalle Tirol, the state's contemporary art gallery, which occupies 500 m² on the ground and lower floors.

The palace's courtyard galleries were originally wooden; architect Hans Menardi replaced them with brick corridors and arched windows during the 1911 conversion, when the building was linked to the neighbouring Landhaus. The former baroque garden east of the courtyard is gone, its site now occupied by the Neues Landhaus.