Panorama Museum, Salzburg

The Panorama Museum Salzburg is part of the Salzburg Museum and is located in the New Residence in Salzburg's old town. It houses mainly the circular panorama painting with the motif of Salzburg and its surroundings by the landscape painter Johann Michael Sattler and his collaborators Friedrich Loos and Johann Joseph Schindler.

The panorama painting shows the city of Salzburg and its surroundings around 1825 as seen from the Hohensalzburg Fortress. It is the world's only historical city panorama preserved to this day. Sattler traveled with this panorama from 1829 to 1839 through large parts of Europe and exhibited it in Munich, Linz, Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Magdeburg, Hamburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Amsterdam, Delft, Groningen, Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Frankfurt am Main, among other places. He was thus the first professional tourism promoter for the city of Salzburg, which named him its first honorary citizen upon his return.

From 1875 to 1937, the painting was in its own exhibition pavilion in the Kurgarten of the city of Salzburg, then it was stored rolled up and only re-installed in 1977 in the then newly built casino building on the Mönchsberg. In 2001, the panorama had to be removed due to demolition of the building, and in 2003 it was moved to the Neue Residenz, where it underwent extensive restoration for two years. The restoration, commissioned by the Salzburg Museum at a cost of around 550,000 euros, was financed entirely by donations from Salzburg companies and individuals. On October 6, 2005, the Panorama Museum was ceremoniously opened as part of the Salzburg Museum.

In the museum, 24 cosmoramas are exhibited around the circular painting, which is about 25 meters long and almost 5 meters high. These large-format paintings depicting landscapes and cities were painted in part by Johann Michael Sattler, and in large numbers by his son Hubert Sattler, who from the middle to the end of the 19th century had undertaken numerous painter's journeys from the Near East to North Africa to the North Cape and from Canada to Cuba.