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The Hallein Celtic Museum is located in the Tennengau district capital Hallein in the Austrian state of Salzburg and has an after-tütten kenbergert ken on the most important collections of evidence of Celtic art and history in Europe and North



The Celtic Museum itself has been leaving the Salzburg Museum since January 1st, 2012. The building also houses the Hallein City Museum. The development of the city of Hallein, which is closely connected with the historical salt extraction on the Dürrnberg, will be improved. The Museum of Silent Night Hallein is aware of the genesis of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night.



Special exhibitions in the Celtic Museum in Hallein include various topics from the country, city and cultural history.

The Celtic Museum emerged from the Hallein City Museum, founded in 1882. These wars were originally waged in the citizen hospital, from 1930 in the town hall and from 1952 in the gate building of the city fortifications. In 1970 the move was built in the Celtic Museum in the middle of the 17th century, the office of the Saline at Pflegerplatz.



In 1980 the museum was the organizer of the Salzburg state exhibition The Celts in Central Europe. In 2006, the Celtic Museum was the site of the highly regarded Nazi euthanasia exhibition in the state of Salzburg. The visit is also possible with a combined ticket (Hallein Salt Mine, Silent Night Museum, Celtic Museum).



2004 Architecture office Dorf HALLE 1 honored with the architecture prize of the State of Salzburg for the renovation of the museum



On around 3,000 m2 of exhibition space, the Celtic Museum shows exhibits on the topics of Celts, salt and the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night.



The museum keeps all grave finds from 1949 on the Dürrnberg. The showpiece of the exhibition is the grave equipment of the Celtic tribal leader, who was buried in a wooden chamber on a two-wheeled chariot. The intact burial site from the second half of the 5th century BC. BC And was found in 1959 on the Moserstein plateau. The important thing is the jug against Dürrnberg, which is on loan from the Salzburg Museum in the Hallein Celtic Museum.



The archaeological care of the Dürrnberg is the responsibility of the Research Center Dürrnberg, founded in 1985. This supraregional active association has its seat in the Hallein Celtic Museum and will leave Austria against the federal government, Land Salzburg, the city of Hallein and the salt works. The Dürrnberg Research Center belongs to the system-related investigation of the sites and the tasks of the preservation of monuments.



In addition to an insight into the historical salt production and sales organization, the Celtic Museum shows 80 pictures by the painter Benedikt Werkstötter in the prince's rooms on the second floor, which he displayed in 1757 on behalf of Archbishop Sigismund von schrattenhen der steen an der stein



Another focus is the genesis and distribution of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night. The Silent Night Museum, which is part of the Celtic Museum, is in the personal home of the composer Franz Xaver Grubersicht and shows his portrait, original furniture and personal belongings from his estate. Including that guitar with which Gruber heard the first performance of the song on December 24, 1818 in the old one, usually in the Oberndorf near Salzburg. Franz Xaver Gruber, died on June 7th 1863 in his own house, 28 years in the city of Hallein and was administered at the city cemetery.



Different mediation program for groups bring to solve the world of the Celts. The bone laboratory is popular and enables direct contacts in the life of the Celts on the Dürrnberg. The participation-related with simplified methods of anthropology bone finds from the graves of Dürrnberg.

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