!!!Francisco-Carolinum

Francisco-Carolinum, Museum, founded in 1833 as the "Verein des 
vaterlaendischen Museums fuer Oesterreich ob der Enns mit Inbegriff 
des Herzogthums Salzburg" in Linz, today the Upper Austrian Provincial 
Museum ( Museums, Provincial). The Francisco-Carolinum also derived 
from the Upper Austrian Provincial Gallery (Oeberoesterreichische 
Landesgalerie), founded in 1854. In 1895 a building at Museumsstrasse 
was opened to house both collections and was taken over by the 
Province of Upper Austria in 1920. Accommodation was created at Linz 
Castle for the folklore, art and cultural history collections in 
1959-1966, while the modern art collection and the library remained at 
Museumstrasse. The Upper Austrian Provincial Museum has a third 
location, the biology centre at Linz-Dornbach, opened in 1993, with 
academic facilities for botany and the zoology of vertebrates and 
invertebrates. All three locations also stage special exhibitions.

!Literature
Das Museum Francisco-Carolinum in Linz. Festschrift zum 
100. Jahrestag der Eroeffnung am 29. Mai 1895, ed. by the 
Upper Austrian Provincial Museum in Linz, 1995.


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