Current Bruckner Exhibitions
in Upper Austria

To mark his 200th anniversary, exhibitions on Anton Bruckner were organised throughout Upper Austria with historical, biographical and geographical approaches. In the following overview you will find those museums and exhibitions where Bruckner is part of the long-term programme.

ANSFELDEN - Anton Bruckner Museum

Where everything started

ANSFELDEN – Anton Bruckner’s birthplace
open from April to October

The Anton Bruckner Museum in Ansfelden is the birthplace of the famous composer and musician. It serves as a symbolic place dedicated to Bruckner’s life and work. The museum preserves the memory of Bruckner’s musical legacy and his deep roots in Upper Austrian culture. Visitors can admire Bruckner’s personal items, musical instruments and manuscripts, which offer an insight into his creative work and his everyday life. The historic building reflects the rural surroundings and the time in which Bruckner lived.

Stadtmuseum Steyr Im Innerberger Stadel (c) Stadtmuseum Steyr

UN#HEARD OF, this Bruckner!

Music & relationship stories from Steyr

STEYR – Stadtmuseum Steyr
13.04.24 – 30.12.26

The City Museum is dedicating the special exhibition “UN#HEARD OF, this Bruckner!” to the life and work of Anton Bruckner, in particular his relationship with Steyr. On display is the man Bruckner and interactive music installations take visitors into unknown worlds of sound.

Smallest Bruckner Museum in the World

In an original living space

KRONSTORF – Bruckner-Museum
permanent

As a 19-year-old schoolboy in Kronstorf, Bruckner felt ‘like he was in heaven’ and described himself as a composer for the first time. The market town has reorganised Bruckner’s former living room as a museum.

The Healing Power of Water

More than 175 years of spa tradition in Bad Kreuzen

BAD KREUZEN – Burg Kreuzen
permanent

The exhibition covers a wide range of topics, from the cold-water spa to modern spa operations and water in general. One section is also dedicated to Anton Bruckner, who stayed in Bad Kreuzen on several occasions.

Ausstellung St Florian C Land Ooe Andreas Krenn

How it all began. Bruckner's Visions

Exhibition at St Florian Monastery

ST. FLORIAN – Augustiner-Chorherrenstift St. Florian
permanent from May to October

For the first time, the exhibition provides an insight into the stages of the composer’s life and work at the monastery with a large number of documents from the monastery archive. From 1 May 2025, the exhibition will once again be open to the public as part of guided tours organised by the St Florian Monastery. Further information can be found on the monastery’s homepage.

BRUCKNER17

Anton Bruckner's first place of work

WINDHAAG BEI FREISTADT – Alte Schule
from May 2025

The ‘Old School’ commemorates Bruckner’s first engagement as a school assistant. As part of the Bruckner Year, his workplace in Windhaag was redesigned and is open to visitors as a place of learning and remembrance. School classes are also welcome! The digital tour „“Anton und die Detektive” rounds off the experience in Windhaag.

You can find a review of past exhibitions here:

Exhibition Archive