Tiroler Landesmuseum

The Tyrolean State Museum, known as the Ferdinandeum, stands in Innsbruck and was founded in 1823 by the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum Society. Since 2007 it has been run by the Tyrolean State Museums Operating Company, which also manages the Tyrolean Museum of Popular Art and the Kaiserschützen Museum. Wolfgang Meighörner serves as both the company’s director and the museum’s curator. The Ferdinandeum holds seven main collections alongside the Museum in the Armoury and the natural history collection. Its holdings span history from prehistoric times through the Roman era to the Early Middle Ages. The art and crafts collection traces styles from Romanesque through Gothic to Modern. Notable works include pieces by Michael Pacher, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rembrandt van Rijn, Joseph Anton Koch, Angelica Kauffman, Franz Defregger and Albin Egger-Lienz. The museum also features a Netherlands collection, a music room with Jakob Stainer instruments, and a library focused on Tyrol. The building complex was renovated in 2003 and expanded with new sections. Since 2008 the museum’s scientific work has been recorded in the Scientific Yearbook of the Tyrolean State Museum. It continues earlier publications such as the Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums and the Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum. The Ferdinandeum also publishes the Tiroler Urkundenbuch, making medieval Tyrolean sources accessible.