Visible Storage of the Museums der Stadt Linz

What's it about?

Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 18:00, viewable from the outside via the "Behrens-Band", except on public holidays. It can also be visited from the inside with guided tours. The visible storage offers a look behind the scenes of museum work. With around 550 exhibits, the depot, located along the "Behrens-Band" in the Tabakfabrik Linz, provides an exemplary insight into the collections of the Museums der Stadt Linz. Exhibits from art, crafts, everyday life, handicraft, and industry are presented kaleidoscopically on 360 m² in the architecturally significant Behrens building, where cigarettes were produced until 2009. The multitude of objects creates a fascinating attic effect, which primarily reflects the serial character of the Nordico Stadtmuseum's cultural and urban history collection, comprising around 120,000 objects. Objects and artworks related to the Tabakfabrik form a bracket here. The industrial and contemporary history of the Tabakfabrik is particularly relevant for the city. In line with the general development of Linz, the cigarette factory evolved from a central industrial site into a workplace for art, culture, creative industries, and digitalization. A depot is a memory store, imbued with the myth of the hidden and promising the discovery of treasures. However, it is also a workplace that is constantly expanded and from which objects are in turn taken for exhibitions. The depot is thus not only an "altar of the past": its opening has the potential to engage with current developments.