Special exhibitions

24. November 2025 bis 20. März 2026

Anlässlich des 30-jährigen Jubiläums der Klosterarbeitenkurse, organisiert von Elisabeth Mayrhofer, findet heuer eine Sonderausstellung im Bergbau- und Gotikmuseum Leogang statt. Gezeigt werden alte und neue Klosterarbeiten in groß und klein –  wie Fatschenkindl, Stichbilder und Klosterarbeiten in den verschiedenen Techniken, eingefasst mit fein eingearbeiteten Zierelementen in filigrane Rahmen. Die Ausstellung bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in die spirituelle Handwerkskunst vergangener Zeiten in Kombination mit neuen Klosterarbeiten.

11 May 2025 to 31 October 2026
 

Original objects from the time of the 1525 rebellion reveal the background to the uprisings by the peasants and miners of the archbishopric of Salzburg and the Princely County of Tyrol. Silent witnesses such as St. Catherine from the plundered Neustift monastery, the famous portrait of Salzburg Archbishop Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg or the crossbow of Emperor Maximilian I. show the worries and hardships of that time.

Foto: ©KHM-Museumsverband

From 27 May 2021

In Renaissance and Baroque Europe, many rich princes had representative cabinets of curiosities. They were supposed to demonstrate the owner’s wealth, artistic understanding and zeitgeisty spiritual level.

Nora von Watteck was Salzburg’s most prominent folklorist. Her interest in art history was fostered early on by her grandfather, an antique dealer who had a cabinet of curiosities of his own.

Nora von Watteck started to add to her grandfather’s cabinet of curiosities located in the Brodgasse Alley in Salzburg. After Nora von Watteck’s death in 1993, her son Arno replenished the collection und organised it.

Thanks to close ties between Arno von Watteck and museum director Hermann Mayrhofer, this cabinet of curiosities now forms part of the Museum of Mining and Gothic Art Leogang. The exhibition aims at preserving the memory of Nora von Watteck as well as the outstanding collection, making it accessible to the public.