City Museum

What is there to see at the Stadtmuseum?

The Stadtmuseum Innsbruck regularly presents exhibitions dealing with numerous facets of the city's history. Thanks to the affiliation of the City Archives and the City Museum, which form a joint department in Innsbruck, the exhibitions can draw on a large amount of sources and present the history of the city in an authentic way.

What exhibition is there in the city museum?

Please smile! Photo Margit and Much Heiss

Over 25,000 negatives from the company archive of Foto Margit, whose portrait studio in Leopoldstraße existed until the 1970s, have been preserved in the Innsbruck City Archive/Municipal Museum. A colorful array of images, mostly in black and white, shows the work of Margarethe "Margit" Oberhaidinger, née Heiss, as a chronicler of life in Innsbruck in the post-war period. More than a thousand studio pictures of city dwellers were selected for the exhibition.

Margit's father, the landscape photographer Much Heiss, traveled and wandered through Tyrol in the interwar period and built up his Alpine Art Publishing House. His photos were sent out thousands of times as postcards and were mostly taken in the fresh air. The mountains, towns, villages and valleys he documented in large-format glass plates have also changed considerably over the last hundred years, and his photographs are valuable documents of the times.

Among the photos from Studio Margit, you will probably recognize one or two familiar faces ... Smiling back is allowed!

Exhibition period

5. December 2024 to April 18, 2025

Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m

Accompanying program

Saturday openings from 10.00 to 14.00 on:

• 14. December 2024
• 11. January 2025
• 15. February 2025
• 15. March 2025
• 12. April 2025

Active tours by the mediation team take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday openings.

Curator guided tour at 6.30 pm on:

• Tuesday, January 28, 2025
• Tuesday, February 25, 2025
• Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Educational program

Educational programs are available for school classes, senior citizens and the young at heart. Educational programs and guided tours are available on request from Service Unit City Archive/City Museum - City Museum

How much does a visit to the Stadtmuseum cost?

• Standard admission: 4.20 euros
• Reduced admission: 2.90 euros
  • Senior citizens
  • Students
  • JUFF/Ö1 members
• Families: 8.40 euros
• Groups of 10 or more: 3.10 euros
• Free admission:
  • School classes
  • Children under 6 years
  • Visitors with disabilities
  • Austriaguides & journalists with a press card
  • Holders of an IVB annual ticket, leisure tickets, an Innsbruck Card, a Culture Pass or an ICOM card.
  • Austrian Museums Association, Austrian Art Historians Association, Kolping Society.
• Further offers
  • Annual ticket: 13.60 euros; reduced 9.40 euros
  • Combined tickets:
    • Golden Roof and City Museum: 6.80 euros - Family ticket: 13.10 euros
    • Golden Roof, City Museum and City Tower: 9.40 euros - Family ticket: 18.80 euros

Is the City Museum barrier-free?

Yes, at the entrance via Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 3 (at the end of the inner courtyard) there is ground-level access to the elevator, which provides barrier-free access to the Stadtmuseum and Stadtarchiv.