Current special exhibitions
Panorama Museum
The Trapp Family. Reality and "Sound of Music"
The Salzburg Museum is presenting a special show starring the Trapp Family at the Panorama Museum. The exhibition compares the story of the Trapp Family with the media versions. Objects owned by the family, photos from private albums and loans from collectors and museums document their “real” life. Exhibition stations devoted to the German films (1956 and 1958), the musical (1959) and the Hollywood film version (1965) show what was made out of the story. The exhibition includes a total of more than 180 interactive photos and 100 original objects, some of which have never been shown to the public.
Georg an Maria Augusta von Trapp
Georg Ritter von Trapp (1880–1947) was born into the era of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy. He was promoted as an officer in the Imperial and Royal Navy and highly decorated for his achievements. In 1922 his first wife Agathe Whitehead died. Georg von Trapp moved to Salzburg with his seven children.
Maria Augusta Kutschera (1905–1987) arrived in his house as a governess. A short time later Georg von Trapp married “Gustl” Kutschera. Three more children followed. His second wife’s practical common sense and stringent organisational talent shaped the life of the family. In the 1930s, the family lost practically all of its capital assets. The soprano Lotte Lehmann recognised the talents of the family choir and encouraged them to enter the folk-singing competition organised as part of the Salzburg Festival programme. House chaplain Franz Wasner became their artistic and creative conductor, manager, chorus master and also composer.
Emigration to the USA and Later Years
The rejection of the Nazi ideology eventually led to the family’s emigration to the USA. Numerous concert tours brought money into the family coffers once more. The Trapp Family found a new homeland in Vermont and organised music camps; the family still runs the Trapp Family Lodge as a hotel today. The family story provided material for the film screenplays and the musical “The Sound of Music”.
Panorama Museum | Residenzplatz 9
4 November 2011 - 3 November 2012
Neue Residenz | First floor
Around eight hundred years of art are represented in the special exhibition “ARS SACRA – Art Treasures of the Middle Ages from the Salzburg Museum”, with more than 375 artefacts selected from nearly all the collections of the Salzburg Museum. The exhibition provides an overview of the art of the Middle Ages on 1000 square metres of floor space. Despite many losses through “modernisations” of later epochs, also through destruction in or as a consequence of wars, the collection of medieval art from Salzburg is still of major importance.
The exhibits are all taken exclusively from the Salzburg Museum collections: altars and sculptures, panel pictures, textiles and furniture, goldsmith tools, reliefs, coins, glass panes and books, jewellery, etc., also numerous discoveries from archaeological excavations.
Specific themes have been assigned to the various exhibition rooms. Thus we have rooms entitled “Christ”, “The Virgin Mary” or “Saints”, containing works from the Early Middle Ages next to Late Gothic artefacts. The most splendid ornamental pieces in the collection are on show, as well as new acquisitions.
Salzburg Museum | Neue Residenz | Mozartplatz 1 | First floor
17 December 2010 - 27 January 2013
Neue Residenz | Säulenhalle
Johann Weyringer. The Early Scetches
Johann Weyringer, a winner of the Slavi Soucek and Georg Trakl prizes, was born in 1949 in Flachgau as the son of a carpenter. He felt the desire to become an artist while still very young. In 1970 he began his studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where his teachers Friedrich Janeba and Roland Rainer were his models. Numerous periods abroad, including in Rome, Morocco, Cuba, USA, Ethiopia, and Nepal, had a formative influence on his work as a draughtsman, painter and sculptor.
Today Johann Weyringer is known first and foremost for his powerful and dynamic paintings and sculptures. Ever since his studies he has also focused much of his attention on drawing. In the period between 1979 and 1982, he unexpectedly produced delicate, sensitive drawings in graphite and coloured crayon, which are autobiographically based and reveal an obsessive and vulnerable mind. They bear witness to an intensive perception of the world, but also the creation of a world in a very individual narrative dimension. Weyringer creates a world full of signs and symbols, which manifest a merciless confrontation with himself.
He formulates his personal feelings in his view of everyday things,
the eroticisation of objects and the environment, in the development
symbols of defence.
Salzburg Museum | Neue Residenz | Mozartplatz 1 | Säulenhalle
21 October 2011 - 21 January 2012