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The Salzburg Museum and Belvedere Vienna committees approved the plans on Wednesday. The museum will be adapted in about 30 million euros. The city and state of Salzburg are funding another component of the Salzburg museum landscape. An architecture competition will begin in the spring.
The new residence in Salzburg, home to the Salzburg Museum, will be structurally adapted for the outhouse for around € 30 million. The architecture competition will begin next spring, the two institutions announced in a broadcast Wednesday.
For Governor Wilfried Haslauer (ÖVP), this is yet another attraction in the Museum Land Salzburg. “To further strengthen Salzburg’s outstanding position in the artistic and cultural field internationally, structural and content-related developments will also be essential in the future. The joint project of the Salzburg Museum and the Belvedere is a prize for Salzburg. as a cultural place, “Haslauer said.
In the new Salzburg exhibition area, the Belvedere will display works from its collection from the Middle Ages to the present day and will refer to the art and cultural history of Salzburg. In curatorial concepts, “the dialogical cooperation between Vienna and Salzburg should be made visible,” he said.
Belvedere Managing Director Stella Rollig said that Belvedere Salzburg should make a significant contribution to increasing the visibility of the Belvedere collection outside of Vienna and to a broader image of a federal collection. “The Salzburg collection will be an independent presentation, but also a complement to the permanent exhibition in Vienna.”
The director of the Salzburg Museum, Martin Hochleitner, added that branches of museums of international importance are all the rage. However, with the Belvedere Salzburg project “a whole new chapter is being opened in the collaboration between two museums in one place. At the center of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Salzburg, a project is being created that also includes the collections and the two institutional histories: a very attractive new narrative on the Austrian museum scene will open. “
A room and functions program has already been developed. In addition to the construction of showrooms, this provides for an improvement in the design of the entire area of the New Residence and an attractive connection with the pedestrian path through the public areas of the New Residence.
In the next step, an architecture competition will be announced in spring 2021, which will last until November 2021 and will include concepts for renovation work in the east wing and inner courtyard 2. Construction is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter. 2022. The construction costs of the entire project are estimated at 30 million euros net. The Belvedere branch is funded by the city and state of Salzburg. The Belvedere Salzburg should be ready in 2026.
Those: SN, Apa
