# List of museums in Carinthia

This list of museums in the state of Carinthia, 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 |
| Amthofmuseum Feldkirchen | Feldkirchen | Local | website, local history, culture, natural history |
| Archaeological Pilgrim Museum | Globasnitz | Archaeology | website, archaeological excavations carried out on the Hemmaberg Mountain and the East-Gothic cemetery |
| Archeological Park Magdalensberg | Magdalensberg | Open-air | website, excavated Roman buildings and artifacts |
| Auer von Welsbach Museum | Althofen | Science | website, life and discoveries of scientist and inventor Carl Auer von Welsbach including gas lightings, metal filament light bulbs and pocket lighters, and an originally equipped laboratory |
| BIOS - Nationalpark Hohe Tauern | Mallnitz | Natural history | website, natural science of the Alps |
| Bonsai Museum | Seeboden | Art | website, art of bonsai and Japanese garden design |
| Burg Friesach | Friesach | Historic house | website, modern hand-built construction of an early medieval castle complex |
| Burg Sommeregg | Seeboden | History | Features a museum of medieval torture |
| Carinthia Open Air Museum | Maria Saal | Open-air | website, Austrian traditional farmhouses and rural craft buildings |
| Carinthian Craft Museum | Baldramsdorf | Art | website, rural crafts and working workshops including farming, working in wood, leather, metal, textiles, food making, construction |
| Carinthian Museum of Modern Art | Klagenfurt | Art | website |
| Carniolan Bee Museum | Ferlach | Natural history | information, seasonal, bee keeping and products |
| Carolingian Museum Moosburg | Moosburg | History | website, features archaeological artifacts dating back to the Carolingian dynasty |
| Celtic World in Frög | Rosegg | Open-air | website, recreated Celtic buildings |
| Death Dance Museum | Metnitz | Art | website, large Austrian frescoes showing a 15th-century death dance |
| Eboardmuseum | Klagenfurt | Music | website, Europe's largest collection of electronic keyboard instruments |
| Ehrental Castle Agricultural Museum | Klagenfurt | Agriculture | website, area peasant farm life from manual labor to machine labor |
| Elberstein Castle | Globasnitz | Historic house | website |
| Elli Riehl Museum | Winklern | Doll | website, local culture and life shown through dolls |
| Eva Faschaunerin Home Museum | Gmünd | Local | information, story of the last person to be sent to the gallows from Gmünd |
| Emblem Hall at the Landhaus | Klagenfurt | Art | website, Baroque coat of arms paintings in the former palace |
| Freihausgasse Gallery | Villach | Art | website, municipal art gallery of Austrian and international contemporary art |
| Friesach City Museum | Friesach | Local | Local history, mining, trade, culture |
| Gailtaler Heimatmuseum | Maria Saal | Local | website, natural history, archaeology, industry, history, crafts, culture |
| Granatium | Radenthein | Mining | website, garnet mining |
| Heinrich Harrer Museum | Hüttenberg | Biographical | website, life and travels of explorer and mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, ethnographic artifacts |
| Helga Riedel Doll Museum | Hüttenberg | Doll | website, local culture and life shown through dolls |
| Hochosterwitz Castle | Sankt Veit an der Glan | Historic house | Medieval fortress castle |
| Klagenfurt Mining Museum | Klagenfurt | Mining | website, mining, minerals, fossils, |
| Klagenfurt State Gallery | Klagenfurt | Art | website |
| Knappenberg Mining Museum | Knappenberg | Mining | website, local mining, minerals, tour of an old mine |
| Koschatmuseum Klagenfurt | Klagenfurt | Biography | information, memorial to the famous Carinthian musician and columnist Thomas Koschat |
| Maria Luggau Mill Museum | Maria Luggau | Mill | website, working watermills open for tour |
| Millstatt Abbey | Millstatt | History | History of the former abbey and local history and culture |
| Missonihaus | Feldkirchen | Local | website |
| Museum Carantana | Molzbichl | History | website, early medieval pottery, jewelry, church artifacts |
| Museum des Nötscher Kreises | Nötsch | Art | website, modern art, features art by Sebastian Isepp, Anton Kolig, Franz Wiegele and Anton Mahringer |
| Museum Historama | Ferlach | Transportation | website, heritage railroad, technology museum, model trains, trams |
| Museum im Lavanthaus | Wolfsberg | Local | website, culture, history, nature, people of the Lavant valley region |
| Museum Liaunig | Neuhaus | Art | website, contemporary art |
| Museum St. Veit | St. Veit | Transportation | website, railways, postal service, telecommunication, motorization, model trains, town history |
| Porsche Automuseum Helmut Pfeifhofer | Gmünd | Transportation | website, private museum of Porsche vehicles |
| Prof. Harry Jeschofnig Museum | Knappenberg | Art | website, naturalistic and abstract sculpture |
| Regional Museum of Carinthia | Klagenfurt | History | website, area history and natural history |
| Robert Musil Literature Museum | Klagenfurt | Biography | website, life and work of writer Robert Musil |
| Roman Museum Teurnia | St. Peter-in-Holz | Archaeology | website, excavated Roman settlement |
| Schloss Porcia | Spittal an der Drau | Multiple | Includes the Museum of Popular Culture |
| Schloss Rosegg | Rosegg | Multiple | Includes room displays with life-size wax figures, a wildlife park and a maze |
| Schloss Straßburg | Straßburg | Multiple | Includes rural life artifacts, textile, pipes, changing exhibits |
| Seppenbauer Gasthof-Automuseum | Friesach | Transportation | website, guesthouse with collection of Porsche vehicles |
| St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal | Sankt Paul im Lavanttal | Art | Benedictine monastery with large collections of graphics, coins, sacred art and painting |
| Villach Automotive Museum | Villach | Transportation | website, cars, motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, motor-assisted bicycles |
| Villach City Museum | Villach | Local | website, local history, art, culture |
| Völkermarkt History Museum | Völkermarkt | Local | website |
| Composing hut of Gustav Mahler | Maria Wörth | Gustav Mahler | website |
| Werner Berg Museum | Bleiburg | Art | website, work by area artist Werner Berg |
| Wood Museum | Gnesau | Art | website, art and wood carvings, woodworking tools |