Vienna - Museum of the State of Lower Austria

(Local Name: Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum) The former Mollard-Clary palace in Vienna and its Roccoco apartments are the setting for the Museum of the State of Lower Austria.

On the second floor will be found the Department of Cultural History, the most important department of the museum. Here a series of pictures lead the visitor back into the past, from Kokoschka via Gauermann, Waldmüller, Kupelweiser, Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Röttmayr, Maulbertsch, Altomonte and Kremser-Schmidt right back to 15th and 16th C. altar pieces and wood carvings (e.g., the "Flachau Madonna" of 1500). There is also detailed information on the settlement, landscape, flora and fauna, life and customs of Lower Austria