Museum Collections

Museum and gallery collections with Central and Eastern European objects of special note.

Austria

Albertina

Strong in early modern prints and drawings in Vienna

Austrian National Library

Early modern prints and manuscripts, large collection of portraits, globe collection in Vienna

Belvedere

Strong in paintings and sculpture, also has a print collection in Vienna

Burg Forchtenstein

Esterhazy collection, including Kunstkammer, collection of early modern paintings, and armory, also includes large archive

Burg Hochosterwitz

Collection of paintings, sculptures, and armour

Burg Kreuzenstein

Armour, architecture, furniture, chapel

Eggenberg Palace, Graz

Paintings, sculptures, and 17th-century castle

Ferdinandeum, Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck

Collection of paintings, sculpture, archaeological finds

Festung Hohensalzburg, Salzburg

Arms and armour, material culture

Heeresgeschichtliches Museum

Military museum with collection of arms and armor, prints in Vienna, online catalogue

Kunsthistorisches Museum

including the imperial collections of arms and armor, the treasury, Kunstkammer in Vienna, online catalogue

Landesmuseum Kärnten

Frescoes, numismatic collection

Landeszeughaus, Graz

Collection of arms and armor (32,000 objects)

Library of the Benedictine Abbey of Our Dear Lady of the Scots (Schottenstift Stiftsbibliothek)

Important library and archive in Vienna

Museum Krems

Paintings, sculpture, frescoes

Museum of Applied Arts

Material culture, with a strong collection of early modern textiles and ceramics in Vienna

Osmanenmuseum, Perchtoldsdorf

Collection related to Ottoman sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, paintings, prints, and objects

Residenzgalerie, Salzburg

Paintings, works on paper, sculpture

Rollettmuseum and Archive, Baden

Municipal museum with a small collection of prints, books, and manuscripts

Saint Paul's Abbey, Lavanttal

Benedictine monastery with large collections of graphics, coins, sacred art and painting

Wien Museum

Material culture, works on paper, arms and armor from the municipal armory, and a clock collection in Vienna

Volkskunde Museum

Material culture with a focus on textiles, ceramics, glass, and works on paper in Vienna

Vorarlberg Museum

Paintings, sculpture, textiles

Weltmuseum

Global ethnography collection with many objects highlighting global entanglements of early modern central and eastern Europe in Vienna

Czechia

Strahov Library - rare books and manuscripts

Národní knihovna České republiky

National Museum, Prague

The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague

eSbirky: National Museum E-Collection

Hungary

Budapest History Museum

Municipal collection with the results of archaeological excavations and city picture gallery

Balassa Bálint Múzeuma, Esztergom

Archaeological and historical collections

Castle of Siklós

Small collection of armor, paintings, sculptures, and prints

Christian Museum, Esztergom

Medieval and early modern paintings and sculptures

Déri Museum, Debrecen

Paintings, sculpture, armor

Gül Baba Tomb, Budapest

Small collection on religious orders in Ottoman Hungary

Hungarian National Gallery

Sculptures, paintings, and works on paper

Hungarian National Museum

Archaeological and historical collections, works on paper, paintings, archival materials

Hungarian Jewish Museum, Budapest

Paintings, manuscripts, material culture

Janus Pannonius Múzeum, Pécs

Renaissance sculpture, paintings, works on paper

Military History Museum, Budapest

Armor, archaeology, works on paper

Móra Ferenc Múzeum, Szeged

Smaller collection of early modern prints, ceramics, archaeological collection

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

Material culture with a focus on textiles, ceramics, metalwork

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Paintings, sculpture, works on paper

Museum of Ethnography, Budapest

Textiles, ceramics, works on paper

Yakovalı Hasan Paşa Mosque, Pécs

Ottoman mosque with small collection on Sufism in Hungary

Poland

W Muzeach / In Museums

Digital collections of several Polish museums and galleries in one place

National Museum in Warsaw

Digital Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw

National Museum in Kraków

Digital Collections of the National Museum in Kraków

Royal Castle in Warsaw

Digital Collections of the Royal Castle in Warsaw

Museum of Warsaw

Digital Collections of the Museum of Warsaw

Romania

National Museum of Art of Romania

Medieval to modern Romanian art, European and Oriental art

National History Museum of Romania

Historical treasure – from prehistoric to modern times, lapidarium, replica of Emperor Trajan’s column

Bucharest Municipality Museum

12 museums and memorial houses housing collections of archaeological artifacts, textiles, decorative arts, coins etc.

National Library of Romania

Including a collection of digitized manuscripts and prints (medieval to modern)

National Museum of Maps and Old Books

Over 1000 works dating from the 16th to the 20th century

Romanian Academy Library

Including a collection of digitised manuscripts and prints (medieval to modern)

National Peasant Museum

Costumes, ceramic, wood, furniture, ironware, religious objects from the 16th-20th c.

Muzeul Textilelor

Early modern textiles from Romania, Europe, Asia, Africa and other parts of the world

Palace of Culture – Complexul Muzeal National Moldova Iași

4 museums housing historical artefacts (Prehistory to Modernity)

National Museum of Bukovina

History museum, memorial houses, village museum and medieval citadel

Brukenthal National Museum

8 museums housing Medieval to Modern Romanian and European art

Peleș National Museum

Historical palace with a collection of decorative arts

Museikon

Museum with a collection of icons in Alba Iulia

Museum of Art in Cluj-Napoca

European and Romanian Art (16th-20th c.)

Slovakia

Bratislava City Gallery

No digital catalog, paintings and sculptures

Bratislava City Museum

East Slovak Gallery, Košice

Paintings and sculpture

East Slovak Museum, Košice

No digital catalog, but does have online virtual tour of exhibition, large collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, archaeology, works on paper, textiles

Museum of Danube Komarno

Archaeology, sculpture, works on paper

Slovak National Gallery