Museum of the future
Ars Electronica
The Ars Electronica Centre is located in the immediate vicinity of the arte Hotel Linz – just a 3-minute walk away! This makes our four-star hotel ideal for visitors to one of the many exhibitions or events at the Ars Electronica Centre.
The Ars Electronica Center in Linz has been analysing and commenting on the digital revolution since 1979. This globally unique platform for art, society and technology always focuses on current developments and possible future scenarios and how they could change our lives. Ars Electronica is based on four pillars: the festival as a test environment, the Prix as a competition for the brightest minds, the centre as a year-round interaction and presentation platform and the Futurelab as a development and research cell.
Tip: Holders of the Linz Card receive free admission to the Ars Electronica Centre and many other discounts!
The festival serves as a test environment for artists, scientists and researchers from all over the world. Every year in Linz, specific topics are then explored across disciplines in workshops, lectures, exhibitions and symposia. The Prix Ars Electronica serves as a trend barometer and is always on the lookout for something new and exciting. The competition supports innovation, makes developments visible for the first time and searches for the ideas of tomorrow.
The centre, the “Museum of the Future”, brings together all kinds of fusions of various art, technology and science disciplines. All the exhibitions here address the question of how we can deal with our environment. They also offer different perspectives on our present, our origins and our nature. As a unique museum, touching is expressly encouraged here rather than forbidden.
The Futurelab helps experts from a wide range of fields to realise ideas for our future. Whether media art, design, architecture, virtual reality, interactive exhibitions or real-time graphics – anything that makes it easier for us to deal with our world today and the world of tomorrow is allowed.
These pillars inspire each other and are aligned with science, research, art and technology. Ars Electronica thus puts the most diverse visions to the test every day and constantly reinvents itself.
At the Ars Electronica Center, which has already been honoured as a UNESCO City of Media Arts centre, you can research, discover, experiment and explore. In addition to exhibitions on the topic of the future, you can also control robots, take photos of your own retina, clone plants and much more!
