Despite the renovation of the Ferdinandeum, the Tyrolean State Museums are once again presenting a number of exhibition highlights this year. While the Ferdinandeum is being renovated, the other Tyrolean state museums, the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum, the Hofkirche, the Tirol Panorama with the Kaiserjägermuseum and the Museum im Zeughaus, are increasingly coming into focus.
Anniversaries, social issues and courageous women
To mark the Euregio Museum Year 2025, which is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Tyrolean Peasants' Wars and Michael Gaismair, the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum will also be exploring social inequalities from June with the exhibition "GeRecht?". As part of a cooperation project, exhibits from museums in Tyrol, South Tyrol and Trentino tell stories about social inequalities, challenges and conflicts as well as lasting social changes. From July, another focus will be on the Tyrolean artist Heinz Gappmayr (1925-2010), who would have been 100 years old this year. The internationally most important representative of Austrian visual poetry will be honored with an exhibition in public space - works by him can be seen at ten locations throughout Innsbruck.
Exhibition in public space from July 4, 2025 "Heinz Gappmayr 100"; Photo: Heinz Gappmayr: Erinnertes Rot 1985 © Johannes Plattner
The Tyrolean Wind Music Association is also celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, an exhibition will be shown in the Tirol Panorama from September. Tyrol has more brass bands than municipalities, they are pillars of the social fabric. On the occasion of the anniversary, a critical examination will be made of when and why brass band music attained this outstanding status. From October, an exhibition entitled "Hosenrolle?" ("Trouser Role?") in the historically male-dominated Kaiserjägermuseum will for the first time deliberately focus on female perspectives between 1809 and 1918. The "39th Austrian Graphic Design Competition" is moving to the Zeughaus this year. The exhibition can be seen from December. The "Kaddish" intervention by artists Oskar Stocker and Luis Rivera will be displayed on the façade of the Folk Art Museum from October. The project was created in collaboration with the Ferdinandeum library and sets an example for an active culture of remembrance.
Under the title "Ferdinandeum on the move", exhibits from the collections of the Tyrolean State Museums can be seen at other locations, such as archaeological highlights in Nonstal and works by Heinz Gappmayr in Rabalderhaus Schwaz. The "Ferdinandeum on the move" concept will play an even more important role in the coming years of renovation.
Events as a crowd puller
Finally, numerous events also ensure special museum experiences, such as the now traditional "Bergiselfest", the "Festival of Diversity", the "Monument Day" or the Open Day. In September 2024, the discovery of five unknown letters from Heinrich von Kleist to the Austrian diplomat Joseph von Buol-Berenberg in the Ferdinandeum library caused an international sensation. As part of a Kleist matinee at the Tiroler Landestheater on March 16, a cooperation between the Tiroler Landestheater and the Tiroler Landesmuseen, the letters will be read by actors and their meaning will be discussed. An atmospheric program celebrates Advent in the museum from November, and numerous concerts from the "musikmuseum" and "Innsbrucker Hofmusik" series entertain throughout the year.
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The "Election Sunday" campaign, also for foreign citizens, took place on April 24, 1994 parallel to the Innsbruck municipal elections. This photo is shown in the exhibition "GeRecht?" - Stories of Social Justice at the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum from June 6, 2025. © DAM - Documentation Archive Migration Tyrol
