{"id":17396,"date":"2019-10-29T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.domquartier.at\/dommuseum-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:39:27","slug":"cathedral-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.domquartier.at\/en\/cathedral-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cathedral Museum in the Salzburg DomQuartier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Permanent exhibition<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The South Oratory<\/strong> containing the permanent exhibition is on the same level as the great organ loft and the North Oratory opposite. Both oratories, which have balconies over the nave, are divided into four vaulted, stuccoed rooms. Each easternmost room is appointed as a chapel, with ceiling paintings dedicated to St Rupert (north) and St Virgil (south).<\/p>\n

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The Cathedral treasure<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

The principal exhibits are the liturgical utensils, many of which are still in use at Pontifical High Masses.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderThe  Reliquary Cross with two arms<\/strong> from Hungary (c 1100, base: 14th<\/sup> C), possibly the former cross of allegiance used by the Hungarian kings, was probably brought here only in 1482. The Eucharistic Dove<\/strong> (peristerium) from Limoges (1st<\/sup> quarter 13th<\/sup> C), used for keeping consecrated hosts, was once suspended above an altar.<\/p>\n

Outstanding Late Renaissance works dating from the reign of Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich (1587\u20131612) include a disc ostensory (1596 \u2013 one of the earliest north of the Alps) and a Roman Missal<\/strong> with a splendid silver and enamel cover (1601\/1603).
\nA century after the Wolf Dietrich Ostensory, Prince-Archbishop Johann Ernst Thun (1687\u20131709) ordered from his court goldsmith Ferdinand Sigmund Amende (1656\u20131731) the unique Precious Ostensory<\/strong> (1697) decorated with vines and studded with jewels.<\/p>\n

The oldest and artistically most valuable object is the Cross of St Rupert<\/strong> (c 750), on loan from the parish church of Bischofshofen. Showing features of both Anglo-Saxon and Mediterranean art, the largest surviving Early Mediaeval metal cross may have been fashioned on Salzburg soil.<\/p>\n

Further art treasures, from various churches and monasteries in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, are mainly Gothic and Baroque paintings and sculptures.<\/p>\n

To listen to (audio guide<\/a>)<\/strong>
\n“Cathedral Museum and Cathedral Treasure”<\/p>\n


\nhttps:\/\/www.domquartier.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Item61.english.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

Paintings and sculptures dating from the 14tth<\/sup> \u2013 18th<\/sup>centuries<\/h3>\n

ngg_shortcode_1_placeholderThe Pfarrwerfen altar panel<\/strong> (c 1425\/1430) and the Sch\u00f6ne Madonna<\/strong> from Radstadt<\/strong> (c 1430\/1435) are fine examples of the late \u201cSoft style\u201d. An Enthroned Madonna<\/strong> reflects the woodcarving style of Michael Pacher (c 1495\u20131500), who created his last and greatest altar in Salzburg. In The Temptation of St Anthony<\/strong> (c 1500) an imaginative follower of Hieronymus Bosch depicts hell encroaching upon earth.<\/p>\n

Salzburg Baroque is represented with works by well-known masters such as Meinrad Guggenbichler, Georg Raphael Donner, Johann Michael Rottmayr and Paul Troger. The best sculptures include Matthias Wilhelm Weissenkirchner\u2019s (1670\u20131727) marble Madonna of St Cajetan\u2019s Church<\/strong> (1726), whose emotive force is reminiscent of Bernini\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

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Virtual 3D tour of the Cathedral Museum<\/h3>\n

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The Cabinet of Curiosities<\/h3>\n

Such cabinets with their original furnishings, as that in the south arcade of the Cathedral, are rare in Europe. The marble floor, stuccoed vaulting and showcases date back to the original archiepiscopal Cabinet, around 1668\u20131670.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_2_placeholderAfter the dissolution of the Archbishopric in 1803, however, the original collection was lost to Salzburg. With the founding of the Cathedral Museum in 1974, the Cabinet was restored to its original function on the basis of the old inventories. The new Cabinet of Curiosities, with objects from the art market and loans from St Peter\u2019s Archabbey and private collections, has assembled curiosities from nature, art and technology to illustrate what a 17th<\/sup>-century universal collection might have looked like.<\/p>\n

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Virtual 3D tour of the Cabinet of Curiosities <\/h3>\n

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To listen to (audio guide<\/a>)
\n<\/strong>“The Cabinet of Curiosities ”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.domquartier.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Item63.english.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

History of the Museum<\/h3>\n

The Salzburg Cathedral Museum is comparatively recent. While the first diocesan museums in Austria were installed around 1890\/1900, the Museum of the oldest diocese in modern Austria was opened only in 1974.<\/p>\n