The special exhibition “Tell Me About Salzburg!” focuses on events and figures spanning two centuries, offering insights into Salzburg’s artistic and cultural history. All the stories told here take place between 1816 and 2016; at the same time, they reach far back into the past or had far-reaching consequences for the future. As visitors move from room to room and from topic to topic, they have the opportunity to explore Salzburg and its history from unusual perspectives and through a variety of narrative styles.
An Overview of the Twelve Stories and Anecdotes
• Truly Legendary! Salzburg’s Folklore and Its Relationship to History
• Searching for Traces of the Past – Salzburg Discovers Its History
• “Silent Night! Holy Night!” – What a Song Tells Us and Reveals About Its Time
• In the Footsteps of Haydn and Mozart: A Report on Salzburg’s Musical History
• Under the patronage of Empress Dowager Caroline Auguste: Salzburg tells its story in its own museum!
• Snapshots of 1866 and 1916 – Images of Change
• Back to the Future: Salzburg’s Utopias of the Interwar Period I and II
• Salzburg and National Socialism – The Heavy Legacy of History
• Wotruba and Thorak – A Salzburg summit of a special kind
• Art in the Shadow of the Cold War – or how the “Cultural Bolshevik atomic bomb” was detonated in Salzburg
• Two Days Facing the Wolkenküchenberg (Peter Handke) – Literary Images of Salzburg
• Lisl Ponger: The Museum Within the Museum
