Austria’s Essl Museum to shut its doors after 17 years

The Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg, Austria, one of the world’s largest private museums, will stop staging exhibitions from 1 July.
The museum has been “forced to cease exhibition activity” due to a lack of support from the central Austrian government, according to a statement posted on the museum’s website today, 5 April. The province of Lower Austria pledged  “an essential contribution” if the central government had guaranteed the same level of funding.