… Austrian literature, its subjects, forms and contemporary history
… its colourfulness, internationality and multilingualism
… its relationship to other art forms: to film, music, painting and graphic design
… its settings and the places of literary life: from the city’s cafés to the Vienna Prater, from mountain villages to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
In the Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library, you will be enthralled by manuscripts and first editions, three-dimensional objects as well as media, audio and film stations for literature. In addition to the permanent exhibition, a temporary exhibition, a cinema room and reading lounges that invite you to linger and browse await you on three floors.
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