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88 strasse and the building erected between 1890 and 1894 in Neutorgasse – all buildings with the corresponding problems of preservation and monument protection during the adaptations for modern exhibition presentations. In preparation for the 200-year anniversary in 2011, the State of Styria made considerable investments since the end of the 1990s in order to renovate some of the museum locations and to present the permanent collections anew. These included, among other things, renovations in the area of the col- lection presentations in Trautenfels and in the Folk Life Museum, the reloca- tion of the Alte Galerie to Schloss Eggenberg and the Jagdmuseum (Hunting Museum) to Schloss Stainz as well as negotiations and plans for the redesign of a museum complex in the Neutorgasse/ Raubergasse/ State Library area from 2003. In 2007 the running of the Austrian Sculpture Park private foundation in Un- terpremstätten south of Graz was taken over by the Joanneum. In 2009 the ‘State Museum’ Joanneum was renamed ‘Universalmuseum’ Joanneum to give a new and more accurate expression to the diversity of the collections. To mark the 200th anniversary of the Joanneum in 2011, the Neue Galerie, the multimedia collections and the visitor centre were opened in the newly re- named Joanneumsviertel (Joanneum district). After the Neue Galerie and the cultural history collection were relocated, the latter was opened in spring 2011 under the name Museum im Palais at the Palais Herberstein in Sackstrasse. In the same year, the Institute for Art in Public Spaces, associated since 2006, was merged with the Sculpture Park in the Art in Outside Spaces department. The Natural History Museum opened in spring 2013 in the Joanneumsviertel, marking the culmination of the major project ‘Joanneum Neu’. In order to have enough space for the new Natural History Museum, the scientific collections of the four natural history collections including the staff and all offices, lab- oratories and workshops had already been housed in the specially adapted study and collection centre in Weinzöttlstrasse in Graz-Andritz in 2010. The Styrian State Library is another user of the areas in the new Joanneum district – no longer part of the Joanneum, but closely linked to it historically.