Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 18:00 viewable from outside via the "Behrens Band," except on public holidays. Guided tours also allow interior access. The storage depot offers a behind-the-scenes look at museum operations. With approximately 550 objects, the depot located along the "Behrens Band" in the Linz Tobacco Factory provides an exemplary insight into the collections of Linz's city museums. Exhibits from art, applied arts, everyday life, crafts, and industry are presented kaleidoscopically across 360 m² in the architecturally significant Behrens building, where cigarettes were produced until 2009. The multitude of objects creates a fascinating attic effect, particularly reflecting the serial character of the roughly 120,000 objects comprising the Nordico City Museum's cultural and urban history collection. Objects and artworks related to the tobacco factory provide the thematic frame. The industrial and contemporary history of the tobacco factory is particularly relevant to the city. Following Linz's general development, the cigarette factory has transformed from a central industrial site into a workplace for art, culture, creative industries, and digitalization. A depot is a memory repository with the mystique of the hidden, promising the discovery of treasures. It is also a working space that is constantly expanded, from which objects are borrowed for exhibitions. Thus the depot is not merely an "altar of the past": its opening has the potential to engage with current developments.
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