Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Baroque former seminary courtyard with mischievous ceramic tongue reliefs, now a café-fronted modern art museum.
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The guide to Museum der Moderne Salzburg opens with three hundred twenty-one years of young men eating in near silence, inside a seminary founded by archbishop Paris Lodron in 1653. You'll hear how the Collegium Rupertinum trained priests and later housed ordinary boardinghouse students, until the last one moved out in 1974 and the state took over the building. It then follows the Viennese artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, invited nine years later to mark the change on the very courtyard wall the students once filed past. Look for the gold and silver ceramic panels beneath the windows as you listen.
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