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The history of the museum building Raubergasse 10 dates back to the 15th century.

In the years 1665-1674 Abbot Franz von Kaltenhausen had built the northern four-wing complex with early baroque façade, Hofarkaden and house chapel as a town house for the Benedictine monastery of St. Lambrecht to plans by Domenico Sciassia.

In 1684, the building became the property of Jakob Count Leslie and became known as Lesliehof. After the extinction of the Count's family of Leslie (1802) Prince Johann Karl von Dietrichstein inherited the building. In 1811 it was bought by the Styrian estates - as the ancestral home for the "Innerösterreichische Nationalmusäum" Joanneum donated by Archduke Johann.

Instead of the narrow south wing of the "Lesliehofs" the building Kalchberggasse 2 was built in the years 1890 to 1893 to a design of August Gunolt. It received a neo-Baroque façade and a roof balustrade.

In the year of completion, the Styrian Provincial Library moved from the Joanneum headquarters to this new building. For more than 100 years, library construction remained largely unchanged.

The five-axis façade of the Styrian Provincial Library was designed as a counterpart to the new museum building at Neutorgasse 45, which was also erected by August Gunolt. This Neo-Baroque monumental building - inspired by the style of JB Fischer von Erlach - lies between the Neutorgasse and the (then) Museum Park as well as Landhausgasse and Kalchberggasse. In 1895, the building was given over to its purpose as a "culture-historical and arts-and-crafts museum" and, despite later alterations and additions, is the only new museum building of the 19th century in Graz.

On the area of ​​today's Joanneumsviertelplatz was once a botanical garden , which was created in 1811 immediately after the foundation of Joanneums. This Joanneumsgarten stretched in its heyday from today's Andreas-Hofer-Platz to the Jakominiplatz and was popular as a park in the Grazer population before he was abandoned in the late 1880s.

Part of the plant population was moved to the new botanical garden of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz.

The Joanneum Quarter was rebuilt in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of the Universalmuseum Joanneum to plans by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos - eep architekten , Madrid / Graz, and opened on 26.11.2011 - the 200th anniversary day of...

This museum is ridiculous: 1) I wanted to get two tickets for my wife and me to enter the art museum, and they printed me one entrance ticket with 2 adults' access. We got inside and visited different rooms as we have different interests and pace. The entrance ticket was kept all along in my pocket. When the guard asked my wife to show her ticket, she explained to him that the ticket is with her husband. The guard dismissed that and asked her to leave. She felt very upset about this though she was able to stay since I had just passed by the door without noticing what was happening. I was later told about the whole story, though. 2) Most of the displayed information (permanent collection) is in German with no English translation. To us, the experience in this museum was very unpleasant. Our advice is don't waste your money and time in...

Nice Location near Hauptplatz. You can find different Exhibitions and great old Architecture there. Also some really good Restaurant and during wintertime there is a special winter market with traditional mulled wine and food. Outs It's a good location to visit when you are nearby. Take a look at the exhibitions downstairs at the cellar. There is also a nice art shop. Also the old library is a great place to visit if you are interested in literature and old books. Parking spaces are hard to find in this area, it's better to take the bus 67 to Andreas...