Explore Austria's digital cultural heritage

**Das Gasteinertal im Nebel, Anton Romako**
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

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Explore more than a million objects from museums, libraries, and archives.

Discover treasures from art, culture, and Austrian history. In Kulturpool you will find images, text, sound, video, and 3D from all over Austria – easily accessible, searchable and visible for everybody.

**"Das erste (Kulćzyčki'sche) Kaffeehaus in Wien, 1684 / Vom oesterreichischen Kunstvereine in Wien, 1862", Franz Schams**
Foto: Birgit und Peter Kainz, Wien Museum

Culture & Life

A melange of histories

It's drizzling outside the window. Again. A comforting hot cup of melange awaits me, like a promise of spring soon to come. I breathe in the aroma of the roasted beans and put the arts section of the newspaper attached to a Zeitungshalter aside.

**Akten des Wüstungsarchivs**
Gabriele Scharrer-Liška

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DeVill

The deserted village archive of the Austrian Society for Medieval and Modern Archaeology contains information on about 3,000 deserted villages, mainly in Lower Austria, but also in Burgenland, Upper Austria, and Styria.

**Super-8-Materialfundus Gustav Deutsch**
Österreichisches Filmmuseum / Eszter Kondor

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Images that never stand still

The Austrian Film Museum is presenting a curated selection of films from its collections that will be made available through the Kulturerbe digital funding programme between 2023 and 2026.

**Depotansichten und Objekte der Landessammlungen Niederösterreich**
Landessammlungen Niederösterreich

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Digital objects of the State Collections of Lower Austria

The State Collections of Lower Austria preserve and document the art, cultural, and natural history of Lower Austria with their over six million objects. Through the project "Digitisation of selected museum collections from the State Collections of Lower Austria," 21,000 objects have been digitised in one year.

**Außenansicht des TMW, 2025**
Martina Fließer

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A glance into the future

As Austria's largest museum of technology, the TMW offers extraordinary insights into the world of technology with unique exhibits and numerous interactive stations on an exhibition area of 22,000 m².

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**Blumenstudie Orchidee**
Foto: Birgit und Peter Kainz, Wien Museum (https://sammlung.wienmuseum.at/objekt/475801/)

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Orchids

Orchids inspire artists: from flower studies and decorations to patterns that use elements of this plant family found all over the globe.

**Stillleben mit Papagei und Trauben, Erasmus von Engert**
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere / 1984 Legat Hilda Antensteiner, Wien

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Still life

Still lifes from photographs and paintings that can be reused.

**Modebild: Vier Gesellschaftskleider, ein Herrenanzug, Unbekannt (Farbe bearbeitet)**
Foto: kunstdokumentation.com, Wien Museum

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Fashion images

Graphic fashion designs from the 19th century prove that style and taste are timeless.

**Landkarte: Lindav im Boden See**
Foto: Sammlung Historische Landkarten, Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek

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Maps

A view of the world in text and pictures: thematic and topographical views, travelogues and country descriptions.

Teutsche Sprach und Weiszheit. Thesaurus linguae et sapientiae germanicae, in quo vocabula omnia germanica ... continentur et latine redduntur. Adjectae sunt quoque dictionibus plerisque anglicae, bohemicae, gallicae, graecae etc
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

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Dictionaries

A fascinating insight into linguistic development over four centuries.

**Von allen Speysen vnd Gerichten etc. Aller hand art künstlich wol zu kochen, einmachen und beraytten (etc.)**
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

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Cookbooks

From sophisticated 16th century cooking techniques to the darker side of culinary history.

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News

**Provider Forum 2025**
Christian Zistler (BMWKMS)

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Shaping digital cultural heritage together

Kulturpool invited its partner institutions to an exchange at the Provider Forum 2025. The intensive workshop day was dedicated to the event theme “Together instead of alone: shaping digital cultural heritage.”

**Kulturpool celebrates the first birthday since its relaunch in 2024**
NHM Wien, W. Bauer-Thell

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Kulturpool at the NHM Wien Makes 1.6 Million of Digital Copies Accessible Online – and the Work Has Only Just Begun

Kulturpool at the NHM Wien Makes 1.6 Million of Digital Objects Accessible Online – and the Work Has Only Just Begun

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**Die Bibliothek von Alban und Helene Berg**
Alban Berg Stiftung

Alban Berg Foundation

The library of Alban and Helene Berg preserves, books, music scores, journals, brochures and other documents from the 18th to the 20th century. The digital objects of the Alban Berg Foundation provide an insight into the life and work of the composer Alban Berg.

Ars Electronica

At Ars Electronica, we have been analysing and commenting on the Digital Revolution since 1979, developing projects and strategies for Digital Transformation, and collaborating with global experts who address the changes brought about by new technologies.

**BOKU LArchiv Gregor Mendel Haus**
Gregor-Mendel-Haus, Christoph Gruber BOKU-IT, BOKU University

Archive of Austrian Landscape Architecture at BOKU University

The archive preserves the cultural heritage of landscape architecture in Austria. It provides a repository and a resource for international research, teaching and practice and raises awareness of historical open spaces.

**Franz und Franziska Jägerstätter**
Katholische Privat-Universität Linz

Catholic Private University Linz/Franz and Franziska Jaegerstaetter Institute

The Franz and Franziska Jägerstätter Institute collects and explores the papers of the Jägerstätter family. Other key research topics focus on similar testimonies of resistance and ideological dissent during the era of National Socialism.

**Magazin der Österreichischen Mediathek**
Österreichische Mediathek, Peter Sedlaczek

Austrian Mediathek

With more than two million audio recordings and videos, the Austrian Mediathek preserves Austria's audivisual cultural heritage.

**Österreichische Nationalbibliothek**
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek / Pichler

Austrian National Library

As the central academic library of the Republic of Austria, the Austrian National Library looks back to a history rich in tradition going as far as the 14th century.

Belvedere

The Belvedere in Vienna is one of the leading museums worldwide. Its famous art collection includes works ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day. Austrian art in an international context is presented in three locations.

**Kaufbrief über eine Liegenschaft in Reval (Tallinn, Estland). Pergamenturkunde mit angehängten Siegeln. 29.08.1635**
Estnisches Staatsarchiv

ICARUS – International Centre for Archival Research

ICARUS – International Centre for Archival Research is a non-profit association under Austrian law based in Vienna and consists of more than 180 public entities.

**Online-Sammlung der Landessammlungen Niederösterreich**
Landessammlungen Niederösterreich

State Collections of Lower Austria

Museums all over Lower Austria show a selection from their extensive collection of the State Collections of Lower Austria.

**Außenansicht MAK**
Hertha Hurnaus / MAK, 2023

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

The MAK is a museum for art and everyday life. Located between the adjacent Stadtpark and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, its collection of over 900,000 objects and prints from across five centuries makes the MAK one of the most important museums of its kind in the world.

**Naturhistorisches Museum**
Kurt Kracher

Natural History Museum Vienna

The Natural History Museum Vienna preserves, expands, researches and presents its extensive collections covering biology, earth sciences, anthropology and archaeology in a building designed as a total work of art.

Regional museums Lower Austria

The Museumsmanagement Niederösterreich is the service institution for the regional museums in the federal state of Lower Austria.

**Haus der Salzburger Volkskulturen**
Salzburger Volkskultur

Salzburg's regional museums and collections

Salzburg‘s regional museums have the the task of collecting, preserving, exhibiting and communicating tangible and intangible cultural heritage to specific target groups.

The Albertina Museum

The collections of the Albertina museum comprise approximately 1.2 million works of art – from the Renaissance to the present day and from painting to photography.

**Wienbibliothek im Rathaus**
Klaus Pichler

Vienna City Library

The Vienna City Library collects the heritage of great writers, musicians and scientists as well as posters, magazines and books focussing on Vienna.

VILLA NORTH – Space for contemporary art, culture and interdisciplinary research

VILLA NORTH offers a broad archive of the design professor Peter North and a renowned cultural programme. With access to 10,000 digital reproductions, specialised literature and international residencies, the organisation supports interdisciplinary discourse.

**Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek**
Gerhard Kresser

Vorarlberg State Library

The Vorarlberg State Library is an academic library that promotes education, science and culture in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

Wien Museum

The Wien Museum is an open house, committed to a pluralistic, cosmopolitan, and progressive society. The aim is to be a cultural resource and inspiring place for everyone living in Vienna as well as for the city’s visitors.

Wiener Filmarchiv der Arbeiterbewegung

The Wiener Filmarchiv der Arbeiterbewegung (WIFAR) is a non-profit organisation, founded in 2002, with the aim to preserve the audiovisual heritage of the Austrian Labour Movement from its beginning to the present day.

Cistercian Abbey Stift Heiligenkreuz

The Abbey Heiligenkreuz in the Vienna Woods has been a monastery inhabited by Cistercian monks since 1133. In our days the tasks of the monks include pastoral care in lots of parishes, teaching and education at various schools and at the Philosophical-Theologican University of Heiligenkreuz. It is an additional assignment of the abbey to administer the various collections, going back to the founding era.

**Feststiege Künstlerhaus, 2020**
Ana Skobe

Künstlerhaus-Archiv

The Künstlerhaus Vereinigung exists since 1861, the building in the heart of Vienna since 1868. Today, the association sees itself as a platform for contemporary art within the framework of artistic initiatives as well as regional and international co-operations.

Salzburg Museum

Award-winning Salzburg Museum in the Neue Residenz is a museum with character. In an area totalling 3,000 m², permanent exhibitions and changing special exhibitions showcase the art and cultural history of the city and province of Salzburg.

Benediktinerstift Admont

Admont Abbey has united spiritual and cultural tradition for 950 years. It houses the largest monastery library in the world, extensive collections of art, cultural, and natural history objects, as well as significant holdings of medieval and early modern manuscripts.

**Festsaal im Hauptgebäude der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften**
Klaus Pichler / ÖAW

Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities

As the national competence centre for digital humanities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the ACDH operates the digital archive ARCHE.

**Ostermesse im Graduale A63/51 aus dem Jahr 1517**
Robert Klugseder

Franciscan monastery Graz

The Central Library of the Franciscans in Graz holds numerous chant sources from the 14th to the 18th century. These include numerous choir books, which are either artistically illuminated and handwritten or rare prints from the 16th and 17th centuries.

**Sechste Symphonie, Bürstenabzüge der Erstausgabe (C. F. Kahnt, Leipzig, Plattennummer 4526) mit Eintragungen Mahlers, S. 260 [Ausschnitt]**
Gustav Mahler

International Gustav Mahler Society

The collection offers digital access to significant archive holdings of the IGMS: printed editions of Mahler’s works with corrections by Mahler and annotations by editors and performers, as well as event programs from the period from 1882 to the present.

**Veranstaltungs- bzw- Ausstellungsbereich des Forschungsinstituts Brenner-Archiv**
Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv

Verein Brenner-Forum

The Brenner-Forum is the supporting organisation of the Brenner Archive Research Institute at the University of Innsbruck, the (supra-regional) Tyrolean and South Tyrolean literary archive. It was founded in 1964 and named after the cultural magazine ‘Der Brenner’. It holds more than 300 collections that are available for research.

**Notenarchiv**
Identity Lab, Philip Reitsperger

Archive of the "Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien"

In addition to sheet music, musical instruments, letters and graphics, the archive of the "Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde" houses thousands of concert programmes from 1771 onwards.

**Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Hauptgebäude am Schillerplatz**
Helmut Wimmer

Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The Academy's art collections comprise the Paintings Gallery, the Graphic Collection and the Plaster Cast Collection. They house approximately 1,200 paintings and over 100,000 works on paper, as well as about 450 plaster casts.

Filmarchiv Austria

The Filmarchiv Austria is often referred to as the National Library of Film and is considered the central institution for the collection, documentation, and preservation of Austria's audiovisual heritage.

**eSeL Rezeption im Museumsquartier Wien**
Foto @ eSeL.at

eSeL.at

eSeL.at is a well-established information and communication platform for contemporary art and cultural events across Vienna and its surroundings. Since 1998, eSeL has supported the networking within the local art scene, and promoting its visibility.

**WestLicht Kameramuseum**
Verein zur Förderung der Fotografie - WestLicht

Photography- and Camera-Museum WestLicht, Vienna

The digital camera exhibition of the WestLicht Photo Museum presents historically and technically important cameras from all eras of the history of photography.

**Leopold Museum, 2020**
Foto: Leopold Museum, Wien/Ouriel Morgensztern

Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung

The museum is home to one of the most important art collections of Austrian Modernism. Highlights of the “Vienna 1900” presentation include masterpieces by Klimt, the world's largest Schiele collection and exquisite objects by the Wiener Werkstätte.