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The Folk Life Museum’s collection

The Folk Life Museum’s collection

Since 1913, the Folk Life Museum has been collecting, preserving and interpreting material evidence of social life and human destiny.
The church of St Anthony

The church of St Anthony

In a time of savage religious conflict, on 8th August 1600 over 10,000 Protestant books were burnt at the foot of the Schlossberg at the behest of Archduke Ferdinand, later the Emperor Ferdinand II.