The 10 Best Art Museums in Lower Austria, Austria

The world-famous artist Daniel Spoerri has purchased two Baroque style houses and developed those in a complete piece of art providing enjoyment and culture.

Arnulf Rainer’s hometown of Baden pays tribute to this versatile and busy painter with a museum devoted to his work – and housed in a former bath that is a gem of 19th-century architecture.

The Gauermann Musem is an Art-Museum dedicated to the famous Biedermaier Painter Friedrich Gauermann. His themse were the alpine landscapes of Miesenbach, Salzkammergut and others. The singel details, the figures, animals, tress, stream or the mountains were studied in the nature, only by the compositional arrangement and the contents of the genre you can tell artistic idea of the image that is abstracted form nature. Every year the Museum offers a new special exhibiton, where you can see other Artists from the Biedermeier time. In the first floor you can find contemporary art. These exhibitions are changing every two months.

MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya gives visitors the opportunity to really experience 40,000 years of history. The exhibition invites visitors of all ages to experience history at interactive stations – seeing, for example, how tricky it is to make a copy of a longhouse in miniature form. Just by looking at the setup and design of the building, visitors can already see that MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya contains a highly varied and fascinating history of the human race. The exhibition and the open-air site alone leave room for imagination. In addition, the museum also hosts events to give visitors the opportunity to celebrate alongside the Celts and Huns. With historical handcraft, hardworking people are asked to get an idea of how a bow is made or iron is smelted.

»MY WORK IS INTENDED TO BE A SCHOOL OF LIFE, OF PERCEPTION AND OF EMOTION.« Besides presenting the work of Nitsch, the museum researches and documents all the works created by the artist. Emphasis is placed on showing interdisciplinary overlaps and influences which have emanated from the very complex conception of the total work of art, the Orgien Mysterien Theater (OMT). Involved in this undertaking are experts from the humanities and cognitive sciences, theology, mythology, psychology, philosophy, cultural and art studies, as well as theatre, performance, actionism, painting, photography, film, music and literature, who in lectures, symposia and publication series reflect on Nitsch’s work in its entirety. Particularly music, essential to the Orgien Mysterien Theater, is being fostered and further developed in cooperation with local music schools and brass bands.