New director for the Salzburg Mozart museums
New management for the Mozart museums: Linus Klumpner moves from the Foreign Ministry in Vienna to Salzburg and takes over the management of Mozart’s birthplace and Mozart’s residence.
The two Mozart museums of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation, with an average of 550,000 visitors from all over the world every year, are among the most important (tourism) attractions for a cultural and historical personality in Austria. In the original rooms of these two houses, the incomparable artist and person Wolfgang Amadé Mozart can be felt and understood.
Mozart’s birthplace and Mozart’s residence are more than two world-famous memorials for the greatest musical genius of all time; the unique, original documents, portraits, instruments and other gems of Mozart and his family are accessible to the public here. It now gilds to convey the Mozartian spirit that these two houses breathe appropriately in a contemporary, modern form.
In Linus Klumpner, the Mozarteum Foundation found the right management team after an intensive search to further develop the Mozart museums in order to meet the requirements of contemporary communication against the background of digitization. I am On January 1st, 2022, the native of Salzburg will take overaccept the demand to promote the tourist hotspots of Salzburg as current museums for locals and guests from all over the world with new exhibition pages and accesses, especially for younger target groups, even after the Corona period. Another focus of his work will be the creation of international exhibition concepts in order to make Mozart’s work and life accessible to the world as part of the Foundation’s activities.
»With Linus Klumpner we have found the right personality to meet the requirements of a modern mediation of one of the greatest musical geniuses. Fresh, courageous ideas, creativity, know-how, enthusiasm and unconventionality in the spirit of Mozart are in demand. We are looking forward to an exciting journey into a new era of the Mozart museums, «said Foundation President Johannes Honsig-Erlenburg.
Linus Klumpner is pleased to take over the management of the Mozart museums: »For me, Mozart’s birthplace and residence are an integral part of the Mozarteum Foundation and therefore always have their finger on the pulse. These two museums open up the possibility of creating a connection between the past and the present and integrating the contemporary. The Mozart museums should not only dedicate themselves to classical musical tasks in the future. These houses offer the unique opportunity to arouse emotions and shed light on a variety of art and cultural-historical topics. In these places it is important to inspire visitors from Salzburg, Austria and all over the world. The task is to reflect on the extraordinary nature of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart in an interdisciplinary way, to honor this historical personality as intellectual, creative, visionary and philanthropist and to set impulses for the future. “
Linus Klumpner studied art history at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and at the private Duke University in the United States. After stints in the Mozart museums of the Mozarteum Foundation, the art collections of the Archabbey of St. Peter and the DomQuartier in Salzburg, his professional path led him to Vienna. From 2014 to 2017 he worked at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, where he was responsible as Executive Assistant for the curatorial agendas of the General Management, until 2018 he worked as an art historian and project manager at the Heidi Horten Collection. Most recently he worked as a cultural policy advisor to the government in Vienna, where he was in charge of international cultural affairs.