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 an apartment! 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 After they gave way to new residential buildings in the 1960s and 1970s, precarious housing shifted to historic and outdated buildings in the city center.

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

Duration of the exhibition

15. May 2025 to January 9, 2026

Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m

Accompanying program

Saturday openings from 10.00 to 14.00:

• 24. May
• 28. June
• 23. August
• 27. September
• 25. October
• 22. November

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

Guided tours by the curators on Tuesdays at 6.30 pm:

• 3. June
• 8. July
• 7. October
• 4. November

Educational program

Educational programs are available for school classes, senior citizens and the young at heart. Educational programs and guided tours are available on request from Service Unit City Archive/City Museum - City Museum

Trilogy in the City Archive/City Museum Innsbruck

Films by Melanie Hollaus:

• Slaughterhouse Block
  6. November 2025 - 6.30 pm
• Cracks. [Optants and South Tyrolean settlements]
  13. November 2025 - 6.30 pm
• Bocksiedlung - a cinematic search for traces
  20. November 2025 - 6.30 pm
  

Event at the City Archive/City Museum Innsbruck

• Numbers don't lie - an evening with statistics
  Mathias Behmann and Elisabeth Ammon from Service Unit Statistics
  27. November 2025 - 6.30 pm
• ACTION DAY Euregio Museum Year
  14. September 2025
  Free admission
• Long Night of the Museums
  4. October 2025
• Open day
  26. October 2025

Leopold Stastny - survivor of Nazi terror, coaching legend & inventor of the schoolboy league

As a coach, Leopold Stastny (Slovakian spelling Šťastný) led FC Wacker Innsbruck to the top of the National League from the fall of 1965. With his expertise as team manager of the national team (1968-1975), he laid the foundations for later successes in Austrian soccer. in 1975, he invented the school leagues, the 50th anniversary of which will be celebrated in 2025. Stastny was a star as a player and coach in his home city of Bratislava from the 1930s onwards. What is still almost unknown in Austria is the fact that, as a Jew, he was very lucky to survive the Nazi era.
The exhibition designed by the Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava has now been re-curated in collaboration with Fairplay Prevention, the Innsbruck City Archive/Museum and the Innsbruck Fan Initiative. It tells Leopold Stastny's eventful story between Bratislava, Innsbruck, Vienna and Canada. It has been expanded to include panels on Tyrolean soccer, in particular the ideological conflicts of the interwar period and Stastny's time in Innsbruck and as team manager. Excerpts from contemporary television reports about Stastny and current interviews with companions can be accessed via QR codes.

Location: Sparkassenplatz Innsbruck
Time: accessible from 00.00-24.00 hrs

Supporting program

Educational program

Free guided tours of the exhibition for school and youth groups, sports clubs and interested members of the public (duration: approx. 1 hour) on request from Service Unit City Archive/City Museum - City Museum

On the occasion of the Sport Austria Finals 2025 in Innsbruck, we are offering athletes
and interested parties two dates for free guided tours:

• Thursday (public holiday), June 19 - 11.00 a.m
• Saturday, June 21 - 2 p.m

Further information on the special guided tours can be found here.

Workshop program

The exhibition will also be accompanied by an educational program focusing on the prevention of extremism in sport. The fairplay workshops for children and young people combine education with movement. Forms of discrimination such as racism, sexism, homophobia, the topics of human rights, global connections as well as fair play, respect and teamwork are introduced in a playful way. Target group: 10-18 years.
As part of the fairplay prevention project, a separate workshop module has been developed on the topic of preventing misanthropic ideologies, which you are welcome to book now. More information on this workshop module can be found here

Booking of the free workshops on request to Stefan Belabed at
belabed@vidc.org, Tel. +43 1 713 35 9494.

Panel discussion

"From the stadium as a political space to a place of learning"
Location: Wilten district meeting place, Leopoldstraße 33a, Innsbruck
Date: July 11, 2025
Start: 5.30 pm

Can political discourse take place in the stadium and how much politics can the stadium tolerate? What potential and what responsibility do clubs, associations and fan initiatives have in their work against discrimination and in the fight against anti-Semitism? The panel discussion will address these and other questions about the socio-political dimension of soccer and its players in a football-cultural context.

Participants:

• Lore Hayek - political scientist, University of Innsbruck
• Moritz Janke - Learning with Kick fan project Munich
• Kurt Wachter - Founder of the fairplay initiative at the VIDC
• Bernd Kosta - Member of the board of Faninitiative Innsbruck

Stadtarchiv findet Stadt - city walks

The popular series of events Stadtarchiv findet Stadt will once again take you on a journey into Innsbruck's exciting past.

• Social housing construction site - Igls Bichl III residential building
  With the IIG
  27. June 2025 - 2 pm
  Tickets available
• Inside & outside. 50 years of DOWAS. Against social exclusion
  With the DOWAS
  4. July 2025 - 3 pm
  Tickets available
• Fatti di Innsbruck - Clashes with consequences
  With Christof Aichner
  13. September 2025 - 10 am
  Tickets available
• Affected by homelessness today
  With Jussuf Windischer
  26. September 2025 - 3 pm
  Tickets available
• Innsbruck West/Innsbruck Kranebitten Airport - soaring with a crash
  With Tanja Chraust
  11. October 2025 - 10 am
  Sold out
• Who has a right to the city?
  With the subArchive
  17. October 2025 - 3 pm
  Tickets available
• The Hungerburg - a district with secrets
  With Matthias Egger
  8. November 2025 - 10 am
  Sold out

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.