Roman Iuvavum
The town that stood here two thousand years ago, its foundations in place.
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No. The DomQuartier is a separate museum complex around the cathedral and Residenz with its own ticket, while the excavations museum is beneath the square with its own entrance and hours. Do not assume one ticket covers the other.
Hours are seasonal, limited and change from year to year; in some years it opens for only a few months. Check the official site before your trip rather than the day before, and if it is closed, the Salzburg Museum and the DomQuartier cover the city's history in another form.
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An underground museum on Residenzplatz showing what was uncovered in excavations carried out after Second World War damage: Roman remains and the foundations of the earlier cathedrals that stood on the same site. What makes it useful is that it explains the city's layers vertically. Salzburg today is a white Baroque city, but beneath it lies a Roman town called Iuvavum, and above that medieval cathedrals that burned and were rebuilt several times. The cathedral you see above ground is the fourth or fifth on the site. The displays are foundations, mosaic floors, architectural fragments and gravestones, shown where they stand rather than moved into cases. That difference matters: you are standing on what was street level two thousand years ago. A decisive practical point: hours are very limited and seasonal โ it opens only in certain months or on limited days. Arriving on a closed day is entirely possible if you do not check. The visit is short, half an hour to an hour.
The town that stood here two thousand years ago, its foundations in place.
The foundations and floors were not moved into cases โ you stand on them.
Roman, then medieval, then Baroque layers, one above the other.
Beneath Residenzplatz, Salzburg