The Museum der Moderne Salzburg occupies two sites. The Rupertinum, opened in 1983, is a town palace finished in 1633 in early Baroque style. The Mönchsberg building was designed by the Munich team Friedrich Hoff Zwink, chosen from 145 entries in a competition launched in 1998. Luigi Snozzi chaired the 11-member jury.
The Mönchsberg building took about three and a half years to build and opened in October 2004. Its facade is clad in local Untersberg marble with vertical joints. These joints help the air-conditioning and refer to Mozart's Don Giovanni. It has four levels, and both buildings together offer about 3,000 square meters (32,000 sq ft) of exhibition space.
The State of Salzburg owns it. The collection includes paintings, sculpture, graphics and Austrian photography after 1945. The article gives no hours.
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