List of museums in Carinthia (state)

This list of museums in the state of Carinthia, Austria contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.

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Name Image Location Type Summary
Amthofmuseum Feldkirchen   Feldkirchen Local website, local history, culture, natural history
Archaeological Pilgrim Museum   Globasnitz Archaeology website, archaeological excavations carried out on the Hemmaberg Mountain and the East-Gothic cemetery
Archeological Park Magdalensberg   Magdalensberg Open-air website, excavated Roman buildings and artifacts
Auer von Welsbach Museum   Althofen Science website, life and discoveries of scientist and inventor Carl Auer von Welsbach including gas lightings, metal filament light bulbs and pocket lighters, and an originally equipped laboratory
BIOS - Nationalpark Hohe Tauern   Mallnitz Natural history website, natural science of the Alps
Bonsai Museum Seeboden Art website, art of bonsai and Japanese garden design
Burg Friesach Friesach Historic house website, modern hand-built construction of an early medieval castle complex
Burg Sommeregg   Seeboden History Features a museum of medieval torture
Carinthia Open Air Museum   Maria Saal Open-air website, Austrian traditional farmhouses and rural craft buildings
Carinthian Craft Museum   Baldramsdorf Art website, rural crafts and working workshops including farming, working in wood, leather, metal, textiles, food making, construction
Carinthian Museum of Modern Art   Klagenfurt Art website
Carniolan Bee Museum   Ferlach Natural history information, seasonal, bee keeping and products
Carolingian Museum Moosburg   Moosburg History website, features archaeological artifacts dating back to the Carolingian dynasty
Celtic World in Frög   Rosegg Open-air website, recreated Celtic buildings
Death Dance Museum   Metnitz Art website, large Austrian frescoes showing a 15th-century death dance
Eboardmuseum   Klagenfurt Music website, Europe's largest collection of electronic keyboard instruments
Ehrental Castle Agricultural Museum   Klagenfurt Agriculture website, area peasant farm life from manual labor to machine labor
Elberstein Castle   Globasnitz Historic house website
Elli Riehl Museum   Winklern Doll website, local culture and life shown through dolls
Eva Faschaunerin Home Museum   Gmünd Local information, story of the last person to be sent to the gallows from Gmünd
Emblem Hall at the Landhaus   Klagenfurt Art website, Baroque coat of arms paintings in the former palace
Freihausgasse Gallery Villach Art website, municipal art gallery of Austrian and international contemporary art
Friesach City Museum   Friesach Local Local history, mining, trade, culture
Gailtaler Heimatmuseum   Maria Saal Local website, natural history, archaeology, industry, history, crafts, culture
Granatium   Radenthein Mining website, garnet mining
Heinrich Harrer Museum   Hüttenberg Biographical website, life and travels of explorer and mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, ethnographic artifacts
Helga Riedel Doll Museum   Hüttenberg Doll website, local culture and life shown through dolls
Hochosterwitz Castle   Sankt Veit an der Glan Historic house Medieval fortress castle
Klagenfurt Mining Museum Klagenfurt Mining website, mining, minerals, fossils,
Klagenfurt State Gallery   Klagenfurt Art website
Knappenberg Mining Museum   Knappenberg Mining website, local mining, minerals, tour of an old mine
Koschatmuseum Klagenfurt   Klagenfurt Biography information, memorial to the famous Carinthian musician and columnist Thomas Koschat
Maria Luggau Mill Museum Maria Luggau Mill website, working watermills open for tour
Millstatt Abbey   Millstatt History History of the former abbey and local history and culture
Missonihaus Feldkirchen Local website
Museum Carantana   Molzbichl History website, early Medieval pottery, jewelry, church artifacts
Museum des Nötscher Kreises   Nötsch Art website, modern art, features art by Sebastian Isepp, Anton Kolig, Franz Wiegele and Anton Mahringer
Museum Historama   Ferlach Transportation website, heritage railroad, technology museum, model trains, trams
Museum im Lavanthaus Wolfsberg Local website, culture, history, nature, people of the Lavant valley region
Museum Liaunig   Neuhaus Art website, contemporary art
Museum St. Veit   St. Veit Transportation website, railways, postal service, telecommunication, motorization, model trains, town history
Porsche Automuseum Helmut Pfeifhofer   Gmünd Transportation website, private museum of Porsche vehicles
Prof. Harry Jeschofnig Museum Knappenberg Art website, naturalistic and abstract sculpture
Regional Museum of Carinthia   Klagenfurt History website, area history and natural history
Robert Musil Literature Museum   Klagenfurt Biography website, life and work of writer Robert Musil
Roman Museum Teurnia   St. Peter-in-Holz Archaeology website, excavated Roman settlement
Schloss Porcia   Spittal an der Drau Multiple Includes the Museum of Popular Culture
Schloss Rosegg   Rosegg Multiple Includes room displays with life-size wax figures, a wildlife park and a maze
Schloss Straßburg   Straßburg Multiple Includes rural life artifacts, textile, pipes, changing exhibits
Seppenbauer Gasthof-Automuseum Friesach Transportation website, guesthouse with collection of Porsche vehicles
St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal   Sankt Paul im Lavanttal Art Benedictine monastery with large collections of graphics, coins, sacred art and painting
Villach Automotive Museum Villach Transportation website, cars, motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, motor-assisted bicycles
Villach City Museum   Villach Local website, local history, art, culture
Völkermarkt History Museum   Völkermarkt Local website
Composing hut of Gustav Mahler   Maria Wörth Gustav Mahler website
Werner Berg Museum   Bleiburg Art website, work by area artist Werner Berg
Wood Museum   Gnesau Art website, art and wood carvings, woodworking tools


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