Accessibility and inclusion are key focuses at the Salzburg Museum – now also in its online collection. Although the museum is currently closed for a major renovation, it remains present with "guest performances" and its online collection. Innovative approaches are being taken to ensure accessibility online, for example, with the project One object. Many perspectives!Selected objects are accessible to everyone via a QR code or directly on the collection website, with texts in easy-to-read language, sign language videos, audio descriptions, and 3D models for download.
The Salzburg Museum has been working on digitizing its collection, consisting of around 700,000 objects, for 20 years.
Since 2019, the collected data has also been publicly accessible via the "Online Collection"—making it an important part of Salzburg's art and cultural history. Here, you'll find an image of the respective object, key data, and a written description.
To ensure that all visitors can use the digital offerings independently, the latest initiative is dedicated to an inclusive online collection: As part of the "One Object. Many Perspectives" project, selected objects are made accessible from different perspectives – with texts in easy-to-read language, videos in sign language, image descriptions, and audio descriptions for blind and visually impaired people. Special collection pieces are literally "tangible" through 3D models available for download on the website.
The selected accessible objects can be accessed either directly on the online collection website or via this QR code:
An example of the project One object. Many perspectives! is the pine cone from the archaeological collection that once decorated the roof of a tomb.
The following description of the pine cone can be read in easy language:
The object here has a shape like an egg.
The object is made of a special stone.
This stone is called marble.
Perhaps the marble comes from the Untersberg.
The egg-shaped object should represent a pine cone.
A pine apple is the cone of a pine tree.
This tree grows mainly in warm countries such as Italy or Spain.
Pine cones look like large, hard “fir cones.”
There are sharp scales on the surface.
The scales grow from bottom to top.
The stone pine cone is 19.5 cm high and 15 cm wide.
The pine cone weighs 6.5 kg.
In Roman times, the pine cone was a symbol.
He stood for the following:
– Fertility
- new life
– Rebirth
This pine cone was on a gravestone.There's a hole at the bottom.
There's still a bit of lead in the hole.
The lead made the pine cone stable on the grave monument.
The Romans built beautiful tombs.
There were pictures, names and decorations on the graves.
The graves often looked like small houses or pillars.
The cemeteries are located outside the cities.
Most cemeteries are located along major roads.
Anyone who passed by could see the graves.
Large graves revealed the wealth of the dead and their families.
During Roman times, the city of Salzburg was called Iuvavum.
There were many cemeteries in Iuvavum.
A large cemetery was located at Bürglstein.
The Bürglstein is a small hill in the city of Salzburg.
It is located near the UKH.
If you go up to the Bürglstein,
you have a beautiful view of the surroundings.
In the 19th century, people searched for ancient objects from the graves there.
For example, jewelry, weapons, vases or other valuable items.
They wanted to sell them or show them in museums.
This is how the pine cone came to the Salzburg Museum.
Some stones from old graves were later used for other buildings.
Some grave monuments can be seen today in the Cathedral Excavations Museum in Salzburg.