Monument | Mozart House in Sankt Gilgen

The exhibition in the Mozarthaus St. Gilgen shows their fate and tells their very personal life story.

History with echoes to this day

W. A. Mozart's grandfather, Wolfgang Nikolaus Pertl, was a law clerk in St. Gilgen. He built the St. Gilgen court between 1718 and 1720. W. A. Mozart's mother Anna Maria Pertl was born in this house on 25 December 1720. At the age of 33, W. A. Mozart's sister Maria Anna, known as Nannerl, married the court judge of St. Gilgen and moved into the house where her mother was born in 1784.

She lived in this house, where her children and stepchildren grew up, for 17 years until the death of her husband. From the time it was built until almost the present day, the house has served as a foster or district court. The St. Gilgen district court was closed in 2002. In 2005, the house was acquired by the Mozartdorf cultural association and converted into a cultural and event centre, today's Mozarthaus St. Gilgen am Wolfgangsee, between 2008 and 2009.

The memorial

Discover our planned memorial on the ground floor soon! Designed in an innovative and interdisciplinary way, it will be an interactive laboratory. Visitors are invited to contribute their ideas and record their thoughts on an interactive wall. The space will grow continuously, supported by the contributions of our visitors - a dynamic art project, initially conceived as a temporary solution. To be experienced soon: A reading corner with literature about the Mozarts and our multilingual museum film. QR codes will provide you with additional audio guides on the history of the museum. We will keep you up to date here about when the memorial will be accessible to you.

New exhibition 2024!
The Glass Mountain
The exhibition will take place from 29 June to 15 September at Mozarthaus St.Gilgen and offers an impressive compilation of works by the artists Trisha Donnelly, Michaela Eichwald, Peter Fischli / David Weiss and Niklas Lichti, curated by Maximilian Geymüller.
Inspired by Donald Barthelme's "The Glass Mountain" from the short story collection "City Life" (1970), the exhibition plays with meanings, shifts and ruptures. It brings together works from different contexts and maintains the tension between realism and fantasy, banality and opacity, connectedness and isolation.

 Opening: 28 June 18:00
- Exhibition duration: 29 June to 15 September 2024
- Opening hours: Wednesday - Sunday 13:00 - 18:00
- Guided tours: Every 2nd Saturday in July and August from 11:00 (from 3.7.24)
- Admission: Free