Admont Monastery

An interesting concept between Benedictine tradition and cultural timeliness, which results from the examination of the Benedictine of Admont with art and culture in recent times. The Monastery of Admont shines not only with the world’s largest monastic library but since 1997 it has increasingly concentrated on historic grown patronage of the church. With the museum of contemporary art the Monastery of Admont created a modern ambience for exhibitions of more than 100 artists, which are arranged by theme for alternating special exhibitions. In addition to the ongoing acquisitions, an artist of the residence-program invites artists from the younger or middle age generation to participate in creating a site-specific piece of art at the monastery. These pieces of art created at the Residence will be added to the collection of the monastery under the brand “Made for Admont”. For this exceptional combination of high-ranked modern art with old cultural assets the Monastery of Admont was awarded with the Austrian Museum Award in 2005.
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The Benedictine Abbey of Admont is the oldest existing monastery in Styria. It was founded in 1074 by archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg based on an endorsement by Saint Hemma of Gurk. The first monks came from St. Peter in Salzburg. To find out more about the history of Admont please visit their website.

The Library:
Since its foundation in 1074, i.e. since almost one thousand years, Admont Benedictine Monastery has collected and preserved cultural goods. In this respect the library has a special position.

This library is one of the most important cultural properties of our country and is one of the largest late Baroque works of art in Europe. Perhaps a little overenthusiastically but at the same quite justifiably, since the early 19th century the Admont library has been called the “eighth wonder of the world”.