City Museum

What is there to see at the Stadtmuseum?

The Innsbruck City Museum regularly presents exhibitions that deal with numerous facets of the city's history. Thanks to the fact that the City Archives and the City Museum form a joint department in Innsbruck, the exhibitions can draw on a large number of sources and present the history of the city in an authentic way:

What is the current exhibition at the Stadtmuseum?

Search for a flat! From shacks to vacancies

The question of satisfactory living space occupies the public and politicians more than almost any other topic. However, this is by no means a current phenomenon. That is why this exhibition is dedicated to cramped and precarious housing in Innsbruck over the last 120 years. The barracks built in various parts of the city after the First World War were used for a long time. After they gave way to new residential buildings in the 1960s and 1970s, precarious housing shifted to historic and outdated buildings in the city centre.

Today, only refugees live in substandard housing - but the overheated housing market is limiting the square metres that ordinary mortals can afford. This always raises the question of what politicians and administrators are doing. Affordable housing" has long since degenerated into an empty slogan on the election posters of all political parties. In the years after the Second World War, for example, housing conditions were precisely surveyed and systematic allocations were made to private flats. Today, the introduction of a vacancy tax is causing a stir.

Exhibition period

15. May 2025 to 6 February 2026

Monday to Friday from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm

Accompanying programme

Saturday openings from 10.00 to 14.00:

• 24. January 2026

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

Curator guided tour on Tuesday at 6.30 pm:

• 13. January 2026

Educational programme

Educational programmes are available for school classes, senior citizens and the young at heart. Educational programmes 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: 4.50 euros
• Reduced admission: 3.00 euros
  • Senior citizens
  • Students
  • JUFF/Ö1 members
• Families: 9,00 Euro
• Groups of 10 or more: 3.00 euros per person
• 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: 14.50 euros; reduced 10.00 euros
  • Combined tickets:
    • Golden Roof and City Museum: 7.00 euros - Family ticket: 14.00 euros
    • Golden Roof, City Museum and City Tower: 10.00 euros - Family ticket: 20.00 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.