Museum Burg Golling
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The Golling Castle Museum is located in Golling an der Salzach in Golling Castle .
Emergence
In 1968, the first preliminary talks about founding a museum in Golling Castle took place. The founding meeting followed a year later, after which the market town of Golling, as the legal entity, rented the first rooms that had become vacant at the time from the Republic of Austria and appointed Erich Urbanek as a volunteer curator to set up a future local history museum with natural and cultural history collections. With the establishment of the first museum rooms, the museum was opened in 1971 in an initially modest setting.
Due to the lively collection and research activities of the curator and other volunteers, the museum was able to be constantly expanded in the following decades and grew into an important regional museum.
The museum
One focus is the collection of fossils from the area of the northern limestone Alps of the Tennengau. The fossilized remains of animals from the Tethys Sea date from the Mesozoic and are 65 to 250 million years old. A unique find is Omphalosaurus wolfi , the fossil skeleton of a forerunner of the later ichthyosaurs . For museum didactic reasons, some important objects from the Lias of Holzmaden near Stuttgart are shown.
From some important rock carvings from the area, including the famous "hunting Fries" are silicone copies issued. The room on the second floor of the east tower was adapted in 2005 for smaller special exhibitions and in 2006 it was equipped with a home cinema for showing current museum films. The registry office and the museum's event room are located in the former court room, which is decorated with the coat of arms of the Gollinger Pfleger . The room is also used for special exhibitions, otherwise valuable historical paintings with views of the place and its surroundings can be seen here.
The first four rooms will house the special exhibition “Of Cave Bears and Neanderthals ” in 2007/2008 , but will be furnished with objects on new topics in the following years. In addition to local antiques, a collection of Salzburg coins from seven centuries is on display in the “nursing room”. In the room in front of the Prince's Room, part of the sacred collection with the Way of the Cross from 1750 from the castle chapel can be seen.
The last room on the first floor, richly stuccoed, with sovereign coats of arms on the ceilings of the bay windows, was intended as their living space during a stay of the prince archbishops and lords of Salzburg in Golling. This is where the second part of the museum's collection of sacred objects is housed, including, since 2005, the huge cross from 1608 from the Croatian cave on Pass Lueg . The museum's annual special exhibitions are shown in different museum rooms, which is why not all of the museum's collections can always be seen in full.
At the exit of the stairs, the “interrogation room” of the nursing court, the former torture chamber, is furnished with different legal antiquities. It was here that embarrassing interviews were conducted on people who were suspected or accused of a crime. One of the highlights of the castle building is the museum's old castle chapel with a rococo altar from 1752. It can only be viewed as part of special tours by the museum curator.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '50 " N , 13 ° 10' 0.9" E