Universalmuseum
Joanneum
20 Museums and one zoo
Schloss Eggenberg
1a Archaeology Museum
Globally unique finds such as the Cult Wagon of Strettweg or the Mask of Kleinklein encourage visitors to this museum to explore in depth living environments from the past.
As part of SHOWING STYRIA 2025, the special exhibition Graz 1699 transports visitors back to the 17th century, showing a digital reconstruction of Baroque Graz. In this way, visitors can experience the city’s history in a compelling way
With SHOWING STYRIA 2025, the UNESCO World Heritage Site Schloss Eggenberg presents itself in a new way, taking visitors back to the time of the Eggenbergs.
Ambition & Illusion. Schloss Eggenberg: Staging the World In 2025 the expansion of Schloss Eggenberg into a royal residence is commemorated for the 400th time. For this, SHOWING STYRIA takes a clear-eyed look at Eggenberg, all its inhabitants and the worlds they inhabited. The Castle and State Rooms are turned into stages for the grand display of a princely family.
Opening hours
State Rooms: April 26–November 2, 2025
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm
Access only possible with a valid time card (time slot)
Park and gardens: until March 14: daily, 8 am–5 pm
March 15–November 2, 2025: daily, 8 am–7 pm
November 3, 2025–March 14, 2026: daily, 8 am–5 pm
Eggenberger Allee 90, 8020 Graz +43-316/8017-9560 eggenberg@museum-joanneum.at www.welterbe-eggenberg.at www.steiermarkschau.at
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Experience history, art, culture and nature, all in the Universalmuseum Joanneum! 20 museums and one zoo invite you to immerse yourself in the diversity of our collections.
SHOWING STYRIA 2025 transports you to a world seemingly far-away. This handy programme reveals exhibition highlights for 2025. Be inspired!
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Coin Cabinet
The Coin Cabinet welcomes you on a memorable journey of discovery through the centuries.
SHOWING STYRIA 2025 also turns the focus on the exhibition
The Eggenberg Family and the Power of Money. Dedicated to the unique and precious coinage of the Eggenberg family from the coin collection, the show reveals the diversity of 17th century coinage and the monetary-historical background.
Opening hours
April 26–November 2, 2025
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm
Schloss Eggenberg, ground floor
+43-316/8017-9560
muenzkabinett@museum-joanneum.at www.muenzkabinett.at www.steiermarkschau.at
Alte Galerie
Experience the most valuable collection of Old Masters in Styria in 22 themed rooms from the High Middle Ages to the late 18th century.
Opening hours
April 26–November 2, 2025:
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm
Schloss Eggenberg, 1st floor
+43-316/8017-9560
altegalerie@museum-joanneum.at www.altegalerie.at
Opening hours
April 26–November 2, 2025
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm
Schlosspark, by the Planetengarten +43-316/8017-9560 archaeologie@museum-joanneum.at www.archaeologiemuseum.at www.steiermarkschau.at
Pavilions
The exhibition on the theme of History Repeating? uses three pavilions to present completely different concepts of space, thus representing a link between history and the present. Gathering artistic positions, the show enables the past to be reworked in a new way.
The three pavilions are set up jointly on the Heldenplatz in Vienna from March 13th to 30th. They can also be seen at the following as part of SHOWING STYRIA:
Pavilions in Vienna
March 13–30, 2025
Entrance free of charge
Pavilion in Schloss Eggenberg
April 26–November 2, 2025
Entry to park 2 €
Pavilion in Mariazell
May 1–July 28, 2025
Entrance free of charge
Pavilion in Leoben
August 20–October 31, 2025
Entrance free of charge
Pavilion in Ljubljana/Slovenia
(For period of time, see QR-Code)
Entrance free of charge!
www.steiermarkschau.at
Styrian Armoury 2
The largest preserved armoury in the world is among the most popular tourist attractions in Graz and reminds us of a conflict-ridden chapter in Styrian history.
The Styrian Armoury was created in turbulent times: from the 15th to the 18th century, the lives of people living here were shaped by constant military conflicts with Hungarian rebels and the Ottoman Empire.
Built in 1642–44, the armoury served for around 100 years as the ‘central arsenal’ for simple infantrymen and soldiers on horseback. Today it is both a memorial and museum: some 32,000 articles of war are on display in the Styrian Armoury in their historical layout.
Opening hours
April 1–October 31, 2025:
Tue-Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm November 1–December 31, 2025 accessible as part of a tour: Tue–Sun, public holidays, 11 am and 2 pm (GER), 12:30 pm (ENG) as well as upon request
Semester and Christmas holidays: Tue-Sun, public holidays, 11 am–3 pm Herrengasse 16, 8010 Graz +43-316/8017-9810 zeughaus@museum-joanneum.at www.landeszeughaus.at
History Museum 3
This internationally award-winning museum invites visitors to take a historical tour through Styria from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Visitors can explore how Styria has developed over the last 900 years in the show 100 x Styria. The innovative exhibition titled Why? National Socialism in Styria investigates in depth the fascination and cohesiveness of the Nazi regime. The display depot shows the variety of the cultural-historical and multimedia collections.
The main exhibition Stages for the Middle Class. A Styrian Rural-Urban Party around 1900 is dedicated to social life – seeing and being seen – and relations between the sexes, the resultant changes in daily life, leisure time and social practices of the modern middle-class.
In the first half of the year, the exhibition Time Travel. Photography between Tradition and Modernity shows the connection between historical photographs from the Salzkammergut and contemporary photographic art. From June on, the Hofgalerie welcomes visitors to From High up in the Valley The portraits of people from St. Lambrecht created by the farmer Franz Göttfried from the 1920s to the 1940s were reworked by the artist Simon Baptist and used for his scientific and artistic projects.
Folk Life Museum at the Paulustor
The museum’s exhibitions tell of different living environments and of social and cultural change in the past and present.
The new exhibition room, the Collection Cabinet, is dedicated to a special category of objects, the cross-stitch on textiles and decorated objects. Thread by Numbers. Cross-stitch from Yesterday to Today provides an insight into the diversity and history of the more than 120 exhibits.
The participatory project The Elderly Talk – Age Counts explores current living practices and habits as well as how ideas about living change with age. With various groups collaborating, living spaces will be created in a museum laboratory over the course of the year. Important questions around age(ing) will be addressed and presented latest by the beginning of December.
Running until the end of October, the exhibition They Want to Take Our Lives. Bombing Minorities 1993–1996 remembers the horrors of rightwing terror and the fear that gripped Austria’s minorities over four years. This exhibition by the Minorities Initiative commemorates the victims, allowing those affected to have their say and shedding light on the role played by the political and social climate of the 1990s in these acts of violence.
The subject addressed in a new module in the museum’s main exhibition until the end of the year is Security and Insecurity – questions that concern us all. Do we live in unsafe times? Can the future be determined? Insecurity and uncertainty are basic experiences from which people have always developed concepts and practices centred around security, prevention and precaution.
Opening hours
Founded in 2007, the Rockarchiv Steiermark presents its new online archive. It features innovative bands and musicians from the 1950s to the present day who have shaped or influenced the development of music in Styria and Austria.
To mark the opening of the Koralm Railway, the show Awakening! explores the question of why people have made the journey between Styria and Carinthia over the last 1,000 years.
Opening hours Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm
Sackstraße 16, 8010 Graz +43-316/8017-9810
geschichte@museum-joanneum.at www.museumfürgeschichte.at
Here you can access the Rockarchiv online
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm Paulustorgasse 11–13a, 8010 Graz +43-316/8017-9810 volkskunde@museum-joanneum.at www.volkskundemuseum-graz.at
You can find an overview of all events at the Universalmuseum Joanneum and the SHOWING STYRIA venues on a daily basis at: www.museum-joanneum.at/ kalender
An exciting mix in the heart of Graz: modern and contemporary art, insights into the adventure of nature and science, as well as an abundance of reading material in the Styrian State Library, all on offer here.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm Joanneumsviertel, 8010 Graz +43-316/8017-9100 joanneumsviertel@museum-joanneum.at
Neue Galerie Graz
Art from the 19th century to the present and a museum dedicated to the multi-genre artist Günter Brus are what make the Neue Galerie Graz a special experience.
As one of the most important Austrian museums for modern and contemporary art, the Neue Galerie Graz presents chosen highlights in 2025 from its extensive collection ranging from 1800 to the present day, in the exhibition titled Selection
The solo show Wolfgang Hollegha honours the artist, who died last year, with previously unknown or rarely shown works. An exhibition by Gerhard Rühm presents an overview of key works from all phases of his career.
The Camuflajes project by painter Johanes Zechner and writer Pedro Serrano evolved from a longdistance collaboration in which images merge with words.
Together with the presentations of the Styrian scholarship recipients, the Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Fine Arts takes a look at the local art scene.
Works by young artists can be seen in the ‘studio’ with admission free of charge.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm
Guided tours: Sun, public holidays, 2 pm (GER), Sun, 11 pm (EN) as well as upon request www.neuegaleriegraz.at
BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie Graz
Part of the Neue Galerie Graz, the BRUSEUM is dedicated to the life and work of Günter Brus (1938–2024) and artists from his environment.
The exhibition Freedom was an Episode (tbc) deals with the current socio-political situation through works by local artists. The exhibition Your Silence Will Not Protect You concerns the question of the responsibility of poetry and art in society and politics.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm www.bruseum.at
Center of Science Activities 5
Try it out and join in is the motto at CoSA, the ‘Center of Science Activities’ and from May 8th at FLiP, the ‘Financial Life Park’!
Examples of practical application, interactive adventures and lots of surprising experiences involving science and technology will encourage curious visitors aged 12 and over to experiment.
Can financial education be exciting? Absolutely! The FLiP (Financial Life Park) at the CoSA invites you to discover the world of finance. Anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of money and how to handle it responsibly will find it worthwhile to come by. But what you also learn: money is not everything – some things in life have no price tag.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm Book programme under: www.cosagraz.at/buchen
From May 8th: Entrance free of charge to the CoSA and FLiP
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum in the Joanneumsviertel invites visitors on a varied tour of the earth’s history and biodiversity in Styria.
The special exhibition Fascinating Treasures. Naturally collected presents selected objects from the natural history collections that impress with their beauty, scientific distinctiveness or cultural-historical significance. A visit to the museum becomes an exciting chance to discover the history of the earth in the permanent exhibition the Trail of Nature. It provides an insight into how nature, both animate and inanimate, have changed over time. The exhibition Climate Change in Styria starting at the end of the year focuses on climate change, what it means for people and nature, and what actions need to be taken.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm Overview guided tours: Sat, public holidays, 2:30 pm (GER) as well as upon request www.naturkunde.at
Herberstein Animal World
Go on a fresh-air safari through all the continents and observe native and exotic animals almost as if you were in the wild! The full diversity of life awaits you in the House of Biodiversity.
More than 700 animals of 85 species from all five continents live in the Herberstein Animal World – in just one day you can travel around the globe and immerse yourself in the world of animals, nature, history and art.
The House of Biodiversity in the Herberstein Animal World allows visitors to encounter the fascinating world of biological complexity in an innovative way. Interactive digital and analogue stations, and numerous preparations and models, all encourage you to engage with this subject in depth.
Steirischer Landestiergarten GmbH Buchberg 50, 8223 Buchberg bei Herberstein +43-3176/80 777 www.tierwelt-herberstein.at
Kunsthaus Graz
The architectural landmark of Graz delights its visitors with contemporary art and an unforgettable view of the Old Town!
Indeed, the Kunsthaus is already an attraction by its appearance alone, yet it’s worth getting to know its inner life, too: in its ‘Spaces’, exhibitions can be seen with international contemporary art. The luminous BIX facade communicates towards the River Mur and the inner city, while the museum’s ‘Needle’ is a popular viewing platform.
The main exhibitions in 2025 deal with questions of asymmetries of power, resistance and solidarity. Freeing the Voices addresses the role of the voice as a tool for emancipation and the restriction of freedom of expression in our society.
Artist Milica Tomić’s solo exhibition, On Love Afterwards, is an attempt to open up and address issues such as responsibility, visibility and injustice through art.
In the autumn, the focus is on the question of how we deal with growing uncertainty and fear. The main topic of Unseen Futures to Come bridges both exhibition spaces.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–6 pm Guided tours: Sat, 15:30 pm, Sun and public holidays, 11 am (GER), Sun, 14 pm (EN) as well as upon request
Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz +43-316/8017-9200 info@kunsthausgraz.at www.kunsthausgraz.at
Institute for Art in Public Space Styria
The institute initiates and supports art projects in analogue and digital public space.
Site-specific works by regional and international artists are located in Graz and the regions of Styria. Art in Public Space addresses social issues from new perspectives. Various disciplines are covered such as visual and performing arts, literature, music, architectural approaches and interdisciplinary contemporary art forms. Works can also be viewed at several Universalmuseum Joanneum locations – such as in the Joanneumsviertel, the courtyard of the History Museum and the garden at the Folk Life Museum at Paulustor. www.kioer.at
Austrian Sculpture Park
Whenever sculpture and nature encounter one another, a fascinating dialogue is the result. As the seasons change, so the interplay between the artworks and their surroundings changes, too.
Just seven kilometres south of Graz, a unique art museum can be found in the open air: more than 80 sculptures by Austrian and international artists can evolve anew throughout the year in the spacious landscape architecture of the Austrian Sculpture Park. Highlights include works by Nancy Rubins, Erwin Wurm, Werner Reiterer and Yoko Ono.
Experience the Austrian Sculpture Park at the Spring and Late Summer Festival with a temporary project by Christian Kosmas Mayer as Artistin-Residence 2025 and the adaptation of the installation In Then Out by students of the Meisterschule für Bildhauerei at the Ortweinschule Graz led by Markus Wilfling.
Opening hours
April 1–August 31, 2025: daily, 10 am–8 pm; September 1–October 31, 2025: daily, 10 am–6 pm
Entrance free of charge
Guided tours upon request
+43-316/8017-9200
Thalerhofstraße 85, 8141 Premstätten +43-699/1500-5794 www.skulpturenpark.at
Flavia Solva
During antiquity, Flavia Solva was one of the most cultivated centres in the Roman province of Noricum.
In 2025, the focus is on high-quality, gleaming red ceramic tableware: terra sigillata, which was found throughout Europe and North Africa. What routes did it have to travel to reach the homes of the upper classes of Flavia Solva?
Opening hours
Freely accessible all year round Marburger Straße 111, 8435 Wagna +43-316/8017-9560 www.flaviasolva.at
Museums in Schloss Stainz
Embedded in the picturesque West Styrian landscape, Schloss Stainz is a popular destination for excursions. The history of the former Augustinian monastery reaches back to the 13th century. In 1840, Archduke Johann acquired the castle, which is still owned by his descendants today. Housed within it are the Erzherzog Johann Museum, the Hunting Museum and the Agriculture Museum.
Opening hours March 1–November 30, 2025: Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–5 pm Guided tours daily, 3 pm, for groups on request Schlossplatz 1, 8510 Stainz +43-3463/2772-16 info-stainz@museum-joanneum.at www.museen-schloss-stainz.at
Erzherzog Johann Museum Schloss Stainz
A new museum with many original objects dedicated to the eventful life of Archduke Johann.
Archduke Johann was fascinated by the scientific and technical innovations of his time and started numerous civil-society initiatives in 19th century Styria that are still in effect today. The Erzherzog Johann Museum invites visitors to become familiar with this eventful ‘life for progress’.
www.erzherzogjohannmuseum-stainz.at
Hunting Museum Schloss Stainz
In Austria’s largest Hunting Museum, the cultural phenomenon of hunting can be explored, as can nature in all its diversity.
With its historical weapons, splendid artworks and handicraft objects, as well as many opportunities to learn more about animals in the wild and their habitats, the Hunting Museum appeals not only to hunters. The highly varied exhibition encourages you to explore hunting from historical, sociological and philosophical perspectives.
www.jagdmuseum-stainz.at
Agriculture Museum Schloss Stainz
The Agriculture Museum is devoted to Styria’s agricultural and forest economies.
The museum surveys peasant life from the pre-industrial era up to the agricultural challenges of the modern day. The theme of food occupies a central place here, as do the progressive ideas of Archduke Johann who played a key role in sustainably modernising Styrian agriculture in the technical sense.
www.landwirtschaftsmuseum-stainz.at
Rosegger Birthplace Alpl
A walk through the Alpler forest scenery leads to the place where the Styrian writer Peter Rosegger spent his childhood. The Kluppeneggerhof is a reminder of the simple living conditions into which Peter Rosegger was born in 1843 and which he described in his writings: cooking took place over the hearth in the open fire kitchen, the central parlour served both for eating, sleeping and working purposes, and for working in. Next to the house, there are stables, a barn, a rural storehouse and a flax hut.
Opening hours
March 29–October 31, 2025:
Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–5 pm
Guided tours upon request
No. 42, 8671 Alpl
+43-3855/2375 www.rosegger-geburtshaus.at
Austrian Open-Air Museum Stübing 11
Austria’s largest open-air museum unfolds in the special atmosphere of a nature reserve north of Graz.
The Austrian Open-Air Museum Stübing shows more than hundred historical houses in landscapes from Burgenland to Vorarlberg and South Tyrol reaching back six centuries.
Walking through the museum valley, visitors gain insight into the life, work and festivities of the peasant population from the old days. Exhibitions, courses and educational offerings enable you to experience first-hand the everyday life of our forefathers, passing on knowledge of traditional craft techniques. This year’s exhibition titled Precious Junk – Collected (Hi-)Stories is devoted to historic daily objects as precious artefacts. A historic inn invites you to take a culinaric rest on your journey through Austria.
Opening hours
April 1–October 31, 2025:
Rosegger-Museum Krieglach
Peter Rosegger spent autumn and winter in Graz, yet in the summer months from 1877 onwards he satisfied his yearning for his rural origins in this country home.
In Rosegger’s former retreat, everyday objects belonging to the author offer interesting insights into his life, as shown in the exhibition Whom does the Großglockner belong to?
Unchanged since his death in 1918, the author’s study and the room where he died provide authentic insights into Rosegger’s private lifestyle.
The special exhibition Changing Childhood. From the Straw Doll to the Smartphone highlights the many facets of childhood and shows how it has changed over the last 200 years. Historical differences are addressed as well as unifying aspects in common.
Opening hours
daily, 9 am–6 pm (admission up to 4 pm)
November 8–9, November 15–16, November 22–23, 2025: 10 am–4 pm (admission up to 3 pm) Guided tours upon request
Enzenbach 32, 8114 Stübing +43-3124/53700 www.freilichtmuseum.at
March 29–October 31, 2025: Tue–Sun, public holidays, 10 am–5 pm Guided tours upon request
Roseggerstraße 44, 8670 Krieglach +43-3855/2375 www.rosegger-museum.at
Schloss Trautenfels
Lying at the foot of the Grimming, Schloss Trautenfels delights visitors with exhibitions on the cultural and natural history of the Styrian Enns Valley and Ausseerland, as well as a fantastic view from the accessible observation tower
In the Landscape Museum, characteristic themes of regional culture and nature merge into a varied kaleidoscope in 13 rooms. Schloss Trautenfels, whose history dates back to the 13th century, also surprises visitors with historical and contemporary architectural highlights.
The special exhibition Man, World and Thing. A Region Tells Its Story presents regionally significant topics in their European and global dimensions. It draws on a variety of original objects and research projects to illustrate the stories that the Enns Valley and the Liezen district have to tell. The show combines different topics such as ‘Geology as the foundation of the landscape’, ‘Habitats for humans and animals in a changing climate’, ‘Intangible cultural heritage’, ‘Tourism’, ‘Health’, ‘Mobility’ and much more besides. The focus is always on people and how they express their lives.
In its combination of art, culture, science and nature, the audiovisual installation Signal from the Dachstein by La Strada Graz in the Marble Hall of Schloss Trautenfels creates space for joint reflection on the future of the climate-sensitive Alpine region.
Opening hours
April 12–October 31, 2025: daily, 10 am–5 pm Guided tours upon request with advance reservation
Trautenfels 1, 8951 Stainach-Pürgg +43-3682/22233 www.schlosstrautenfels.at
