Museum of Carinthia (Landesmuseum Kaernten) description and photos - Austria: Klagenfurt (Topic)

Museum of Carinthia (Landesmuseum Kaernten) description and photos - Austria: Klagenfurt. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Landesmuseum Kaernten.

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As the name suggests, the Carinthian State Museum located in Klagenfurt is dedicated to the past and present of this Austrian province. In 1844 the Society for Historical Carinthia was founded. This year is also considered the date of the foundation of the Carinthian Regional Museum.

The purpose of the Society was to create and host a library and collection of valuable exhibits in the Landhaus. In 1848, the Natural Science Society appeared in Klagenfurt, which also began to collect various wonders. These items were included in the collection of the Historical Society in 1861. Due to the lack of suitable premises for the ever-growing collections of the two societies, a committee was formed in 1877 to find a new building for the museum. in 1879 the foundation stone of the new building was laid, and in 1884 the inauguration of the Museum of the Land of Carinthia took place. The neo-Renaissance building, designed by local architect Gustav Guditz, received the unofficial name "Rudolfinum" in honor of Archduke Rudolf.

In addition to the main museum building and the National Library, located on Museumgrasse Street, the Museum of Carinthia has five branches: The heraldic hall in the Landhaus Carinthia, the botanical garden, the ethnographic institute and the furniture museum in the town of Maria Zal, the archaeological park Magdalensberg and the Museum of Roman excavations in Turnia.

Currently, the museum collection tells about the history of art, numismatics, geology , zoology and ethnology of the land of Carinthia. The youngest visitors have the opportunity to listen to several lectures at the Academy of Young Archaeologists.

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