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This list of museums in the state of Upper 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.
The list
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| Name | Location | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpineum | Hinterstoder | Local | website, mountain life including mountain farming, skiing and sports, rescues, natural history, forestry |
| Anton Bruckner Center | Ansfelden | Biographical | website, music venue adjacent to birthplace of composer Anton Bruckner |
| Ars Electronica Center | Linz | Science | Science, modern digital technology and art |
| Austrian Rock Art Museum | Spital am Pyhrn | Archaeology | website, petroglyphs and rock art |
| Austrian Paper Making Museum | Laakirchen | Industry | website, paper making, printing, bookmaking |
| Ampflwang Railway Museum | Ampflwang im Hausruckwald | Railway | Steam locomotives |
| Bauer Furniture Museum Hirschbach | Hirschbach im Mühlkreis | Decorative arts | website, handcrafted rustic furniture |
| Biology Centre Linz | Linz | Natural history | website, animal and plant world, rocks and minerals |
| City Museum Gmunden | Gmunden | Local | website, local history, ceramics and salt industries |
| City Museum Ulrichsberg | Ulrichsberg | Art | information, features glass pieces from area manufacturers |
| Composing hut of Gustav Mahler | Steinbach am Attersee | Gustav Mahler | |
| Crime Museum Scharnstein | Grünau im Almtal | Law enforcement | website, history of the Austrian judicial and security system from the late Middle Ages to the present day |
| Dye Museum | Gutau | Textile | information, dyeing process |
| Ebensee Memorial | Ebensee | History | Guided tours of World War II concentration camp, museum of area history between 1918 and 1955 |
| Gleink Abbey | Steyr | Religious | Former Benedictine abbey with museum of ecclesiastical embroidery and objects |
| Hafner House | Leopoldschlag | Decorative arts | website, earthenware making |
| Hallstatt Salt Mine | Hallstatt | Mining | website, tours of the working salt mine, linked to the Hallein Salt Mine |
| Haenel Pancera Museum | Bad Ischl | Art | website, collection of decorative arts, many from Asia |
| Heritage Museum Achental | Sixenhof | Rural | website, rural life, trades and crafts |
| Kaiservilla | Bad Ischl | Historic house | Summer palace of Kaiser Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi) |
| Keltendorf Mitterkirchen | Mitterkirchen im Machland | Living | website, reconstructed Hallstatt village complex |
| Kremsmünster Abbey | Kremsmünster | Multiple | Guided tours of the Benedictine monastery, collections of art, natural history |
| Landesgalerie Linz | Linz | Art | website, modern and contemporary art |
| Lentos Art Museum | Linz | Art | Modern art and sculpture |
| Lignorama Wood and Tool Museum | Riedau | Art | website, integrated life of wood, woodworking, use in building and art |
| Mauthausen Memorial | Mauthausen | History | Located at the former Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp |
| Mechanical Museum Museum | Riedau | Music | website, mechanical music instruments |
| Museum Car, Technology, Aviation | Bad Ischl | Technology | website, technical development in transportation and the civil, military and agricultural sectors |
| Museum Lauriacum | Enns | Archaeology | website, artifacts from the Roman Legion camp Lauriacum including military equipment, grave monuments, ceiling fresco |
| Museum Hallstatt | Hallstatt | Archaeology | website, Hallstatt culture artifacts, salt mining |
| Museum of Bad Ischl | Bad Ischl | Local | website, local history, culture, art, art and artifacts from Asia and around the world |
| Museum of Labor | Steyr | History | website, mechanisms of international integration of production and their impact on work, life and society |
| Natural History Museum Salzkammergut | Ebensee | Natural history | website, area plants and animals |
| Nordico | Linz | Local | website, city history, archaeology, art, culture |
| Ochzethaus | Altheim | Archaeology | website, museum of life in Ancient Rome, open air excavations of ancient Roman villa |
| OK Centrum | Linz | Art | website, contemporary art |
| Protestant Museum of Upper Austria | Rutzenmoos | Religious | website |
| Schloss Hartheim | Alkoven | History | Renaissance castle used by the Nazis as the Hartheim Euthanasia Centre |
| Schloss Museum Linz | Linz | Multiple | website, art, decorative arts and crafts, musical instruments, numismatics, ethnography, archaeology |
| SKGLB Museum | Mondsee | Railway | |
| Skulpturenpark Artpark | Linz | Art | Sculpture garden |
| Tower 9 – Leonding City Museum | Leonding | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Villa Franz Lehár | Bad Ischl | Historic house | website, home of composer Franz Lehár |
| Villa Ingenious | Rohrbach in Oberösterreich | Art | website, perception through the five senses |
| Weaving Museum Haslach | Haslach an der Mühl | Textile | website, preparation of flax, manual and mechanical weaving |