List of museums in Lower Austria
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This list of museums in the state of Lower Austria, Austria contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries.
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| Name | Image | Location | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnulf Rainer Museum |  |
Baden | Art | website, works by contemporary artist Arnulf Rainer |
| Austrian Motorcycle Museum | Sigmundsherberg | Transportation | website, motorcycles | |
| BAXA Mining Museum |  |
Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge | Mining | website, restored lime kiln and former quarry |
| Art/Brut Center Gugging |  |
Baden | Art | |
| Artstetten Castle |  |
Artstetten-Pöbring | Biography | Life and times of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria |
| Bicycle Museum of Retz | Retz | Transportation | website, bicycles | |
| Burg Kreuzenstein |  |
Leobendorf | Historic house | Restored medieval castle |
| Burg Rappottenstein |  |
Rappottenstein | Historic house | Tours of the medieval fortress castle |
| Burg Seebenstein |  |
Seebenstein | Historic house | Tours of the medieval fortress castle |
| Burgruine Aggstein |  |
Schönbühel-Aggsbach | Historic house | Tours of the medieval castle ruins |
| City Museum Wienertor |  |
Hainburg an der Donau | Local | website, local history, prehistory, natural history |
| City Museum Traiskirchen | Traiskirchen | Local | website, local history, home life, culture | |
| Das Heizhaus |  |
Strasshof an der Nordbahn | Railway | website |
| District Folklore Museum Lilienfeld |  |
Lilienfeld | Local | website |
| Dorfmuseum Kritzendorf |  |
Klosterneuburg | Local | website, village history, agriculture, domestic life |
| Edmund Adler Gallery | Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge | Art | website, municipal art gallery, works by local painter Edmund Adler | |
| Egon Schiele Museum |  |
Tulln an der Donau | Art | Works by painter Egon Schiele, contemporary art exhibits |
| Eisenbahnmuseum Schwechat |  |
Schwechat | Railway | website |
| Essl Museum |  |
Klosterneuburg | Art | website, contemporary art |
| Field and Industrial Railway Museum | Hohenberg | Railway | website | |
| Fire Museum Perchtoldsdorf |  |
Perchtoldsdorf | Firefighting | website, firefighting equipment, helmets, hoses |
| First Austrian Museum of Everyday History | Pölla | History | information, rural life and social changes of Lower Austria | |
| Fischamend Museum |  |
Fischamend | Local | website, local history, prehistory, industry, culture |
| Forest Farm Museum | Gutenstein | History | website, woodworking, carpentry, tools, uses | |
| Gallery of Lower Austria for Contemporary Art Krems | Krems | Art | website | |
| Gallery of Lower Austria for Contemporary Art St. Pölten | St. Pölten | Art | website | |
| Galerie Stadtpark | Krems | Art | website | |
| Gaming Charterhouse |  |
Gaming | Religious | Features museum in the former monastery's history and medieval life |
| Göttweig Abbey |  |
Göttweig | Religious | Includes tours of the Baroque monastery complex and imperial museum |
| Gozzoburg |  |
Krems | Art | website, tours of the Medieval hall with frescoes |
| Grocery Museum | Herrnbaumgarten | History | website, late 19th-century period general store | |
| Haydn's Birthplace in Rohrau |  |
Rohrau | Biography | website, late 18th-century period birthplace of composer Joseph Haydn |
| Höbarthmuseum |  |
Horn | Multiple | website, local history, weapons, watches and clocks |
| Hungarian Tower City Museum |  |
Bruck an der Leitha | Local | website |
| Karikaturmuseum Krems |  |
Krems | Art | website, caricature, cartoon, comic and satirical art |
| Kitchen Museum |  |
Herrnbaumgarten | History | website, period kitchen displays, cookware and serving pieces |
| Klosterneuburg Monastery |  |
Klosterneuburg | Art | Tours of the monastery and museum of religious art |
| Klosterneuburg City Museum | Klosterneuburg | Local | website, local history | |
| Krahuletz Museum |  |
Eggenburg | Multiple | website, minerals and fossils, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts |
| Kunsthalle Krems |  |
Krems | Art | website, exhibits of art, photography, culture |
| Little Train Museum | Altenmarkt an der Triesting | Railway | Model railroads, open by appointment | |
| Loisium |  |
Langenlois | Wine | website, area winemaking |
| Mannersdorf City Museum |  |
Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge | Local | website, local history, archaeology, geology |
| Michelstetten School Museum |  |
Michelstetten | Education | website, 19th-century period school |
| Moravian Silesian Heritage Museum |  |
Klosterneuburg | Ethnic | website, decorative art and culture of the Sudeten Germans |
| Museum Carnuntinum |  |
Bad Deutsch-Altenburg | Open-air | website, exhibits important archeological finds from the ancient city Carnuntum |
| Museum Kierling | Kierling | Local | website, local history, collection of silhouettes, kitchen items and cookbooks, horse-drawn vehicles and farm implements | |
| Museum Krems | Krems | Multiple | website, city's history, culture. art collection | |
| Museum of Flight Aviaticum |  |
Wiener Neustadt | Aviation | website, Austrian history of aviation |
| Museum of Historical Beer Mugs |  |
Hainfeld | Decorative arts | website, collection of beer mugs |
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St. Pölten | Multiple | website, history, art, natural history |
| Museum Retz | Retz | Local | website, local history, musical instruments, | |
| Museumsdorf Niedersulz |  |
Sulz im Weinviertel | Open-air | Features over 80 historic buildings, includes the Anabaptist Museum |
| Museumszentrum Mistelbach |  |
Mistelbach | Multiple | website, includes the Hermann Nitsch Museum, art, wine |
| Nonseum | Herrnbaumgarten | website, audited classics of nonsense | ||
| Open Air Museum Petronell |  |
Petronell-Carnuntum | Open-air | website, reconstructions of Ancient Roman houses from Carnuntum |
| Railway Museum Sigmundsberg |  |
Sigmundsherberg | Railway | website, information |
| Reckturm | Wiener Neustadt | Military | information, private collection of weapons | |
| Rohrau Castle |  |
Rohrau | Art | website, historic castle with fine painting collection |
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Baden | Multiple | website, science, natural history, archaeology |
| Rosenburg | .jpg) |
Rosenburg-Mold | Historic house | |
| Schallaburg Renaissance Castle |  |
Schallaburg | Historic house | |
| Schloss Eckartsau |  |
Eckartsau | Historic house | website, Baroque period castle |
| Schloss Hof |  |
Historic house | Imperial palace and gardens | |
| Schloss Weitra |  |
Weitra | Multiple | website, includes exhibits about the castle's history, art, regional economic history, brewery museum, area political history from 1945 to the end of the Cold War |
| Schloss Laxenburg |  |
Laxenburg | Historic house | Includes Franzensburg, several imperial palaces and gardens |
| Schönberg House in Mödling |  |
Mödling | Biography | Home of composer Arnold Schönberg |
| Schwechat Museum |  |
Schwechat | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Seegrotte |  |
Hinterbrühl | Mining | Former gypsum mine and cave system with large underground lake |
| Tower Museum in the Cathedral |  |
Wiener Neustadt | information | |
| Vino Versum Poysdorf |  |
Poysdorf | Wine | www.vinoversum.at, exhibition about wine and history |
| Waldviertel Art Museum |  |
Schrems | Art | website, exhibits of paintings, sculptures, architecture and design by artists from Austria and abroad, sculpture park |
| Wiener Neustadt City Museum |  |
Wiener Neustadt | Multiple | website, history, culture, science |
| Wiener Neustadt Hospital Museum | Wiener Neustadt | Medical | information | |
| Wiener Neustadt Industrial District Museum |  |
Wiener Neustadt | History | website, depiction of everyday work using tools, machines and photos |
| Wiener Neustadt Mineral Museum |  |
Wiener Neustadt | Geology | information |
| Wienerwaldmuseum |  |
Eichgraben | Multiple | website, minerals and fossils, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, artisan tools, farming equipment, art gallery |
| Windmill of Retz |  |
Retz | Mill | website, working windmill and restaurant |
| Zdarsky Ski Museum | |
Lilienfeld | Sport | website, history of alpine skiing and work of ski pioneer Mathias Zdarsky |