The anniversary “100 Years of the Folklore Museum at the Monatsschlössl” in 2024 provided an opportunity to take a contemporary look at objects that were part of the very first exhibition held at the Monatsschlössl in 1924.

Under what circumstances were they collected at the time?
How do we view this ethnographic collection today?
What do we identify with?
What repels us?
What has become foreign?

This exhibition deliberately presented only objects that were already part of the museum’s first exhibition, some of which have been shown as central pieces of the collection for the past 100 years.

At the end of January 1924, the City of Salzburg made the Monatsschlössl available to the Municipal Museum for exhibition purposes, and on May 28, 1924, the Folklore Museum officially opened there. Director Julius Leisching, together with curator Karl Adrian, designed the museum with the goal of depicting simple rural life.