International Museum Day 2015: guided tour through the exhibition „PIANO PIECES – Pianos. Sounds. Art.“

Started in 2007, the Salzburg Museum takes the stage in the magnificent setting of the Neue Residenz - the "New residential palace" - on Mozartplatz, and with an entirely new concept. Precious art objects, aesthetic presentation and an exciting conceptual approach combine to make a harmonious and integrated whole. The Salzburg Museum is living proof that a modern museum can inform and yet at the same time entertain its visitors.

On International Museum Day the Salzburg Museum | Neue Residenz is open from 9 am to 5 pm

The Salzburg Museum | Neue Residenz joins the International Museum Day with a guided tour through the exhibition „PIANO PIECES – Pianos. Sounds. Art.“ lead by Director Dr. Martin Hochleitner.
Tour-Start: 11 am

In its more recent exhibition history, the Salzburg Museum has consistently pursued the aim of presenting its comprehensive collection relating to Salzburg’s art and cultural history in special dialogue situations between specific epochs, artistic genres, media and artists. There are two factors that play an important role in the choice of themes and exhibition design: besides the collection itself, there is also the relationship to the location. In the current Piano Pieces project, the latter is subjected to a special approach by tying in the two conceptual fields of Music and the Visual Arts with the festival city of Salzburg, whose image has not been shaped by Mozart alone.  For the exhibition in the Kunsthalle of the Neue Residenz, the Salzburg Museum’s extensive collection of pianos is the starting point for a concept that combines a selection of instruments with pieces of music and works of art from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. The result is an exhibition that brings together pianos with sound and music examples and also with works of art – as testimonial to an instrument and to a very dynamic and versatile history of art that is associated with pianos.