Lower Austria Museum

The Lower Austria Museum, previously the Lower Austria State Museum (Landesmuseum Niederösterreich), is the state museum of Lower Austria, covering history, art, and nature. It is in the Lower Austrian town of St. Pölten.

The museum, which was created in 1902 by the Association for Cultural Studies, had many venues in Vienna before moving to St. Pölten in 2002. For example, from 1912 to 1923, it was located at Wallnerstraße, and from 1923 until 1997, it was located in the Palais Mollard-Clary. The state museum was relocated to the cultural region it symbolizes with the construction of the new state capital of St. Pölten.

The Lower Austrian Museum evolved from the Landesmuseum Niederösterreich, which focused on history, art, and nature.Since 2016, the House of History and the House of Nature have been united into one building.Step by step, the permanent nature display has become more appealing and detailed in recent years, and it has been enhanced with several interactive stations.By September 2017, the House of History had been created in the old space of the art exhibitions, which had been shuttered on July 31, 2016.This is meant to depict the federal state’s turbulent past as Austria’s and Central Europe’s heartland.There are also unique exhibitions to go further into a theme, such as the First Republic, youth, espionage, young Hitler, sports, resistance art, and so on.

From 2019, the art collection will be on display in the Landesgalerie Niederösterreich at the Kunstmeile Krems.

Stefan Karner is the House of History of Lower Austria’s founding director.On January 1, 2018, Christian Rapp took over as scientific director.

The home, modified by architects Hans Hollein (2002) and RATA PLAN (2009), mixes Lower Austrian history, art, and nature.The State Museum of Lower Austria’s responsibilities include collection preservation, expansion, scientific development, exhibition, and administration.It sees itself as an educational institution, and hence as a bridge between science and the general people, as well as a venue for leisure activities, enjoyment, and relaxation.

History area

For special exhibits in the field of regional history, a 300 m2 display space is available.The history of the country and its habitats may be exhibited in multimedia from many angles such as communication space, settlement area, and economic area in Austria’s first museum 3D cinema.In the museum laboratory, visitors may take their own path through history using virtual workstations.

Art Collection area

The collection illuminates Austrian art from the Middle Ages to the present day, with a concentration on Lower Austria.The collection focuses on objects from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Biedermeier through Expressionism.The works in the collections range from Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich Gauermann, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, and Leopold Hauer to Adolf Frohner, Arnulf Rainer, Elke Krystufek, Heinz Cibulka, and Hermann Nitsch.

The Lower Austrian State Museum houses large collections of fine arts, natural history, folklore, archeology, and general regional history.A museum database should make it possible to learn more about the exhibits on show at the Landesmuseum Niederösterreich in St. Pölten, as well as the additional collections housed in the Landesmuseum’s exhibition halls, research collections, and depots.The database is still in development and only comprises a subset of the collection holdings.

Area Nature

On the basis of geographical situations, complex basic scientific claims are delivered.A river connects the high alpine glacier to the waters of the lowlands.Aquariums and terrariums include live fish, amphibians, and reptiles.

The State Museum in St. Pölten is Austria’s only one that exhibits live animals and hence belongs within the zoo category.Because the subject of water runs throughout the museum, from the high alpine glacier region to the Danube, aquariums emphasize the importance of water as a habitat for many animal species such as pike, catfish, carp, waxy dick, and sterlet.The museum garden is home to a European pond turtle, a native Aesculapian snake, a grass snake, an adder, bees, ants, and ground squirrels.Background information and more thorough tales are presented on the museum blog “On the Trail of Nature.”

St. Pölten, Austria