For the 26th time, the „ORF Long Night of Museums“ mobilized culture fans across Austria on Saturday evening. From 6 PM to midnight, around 670 museums, galleries, and cultural venues opened their doors.

Institutions in neighboring countries also participated in the event. According to ORF, a total of around 300,000 visitors were counted.

This allowed the Long Night to gain again compared to 2025. Last year, 282,672 visitors were counted in bad weather.

This year’s visitor number corresponds to an increase of around 17,300 people or a good six percent.

However, the event did not quite reach the result of 2024. At that time, around 308,000 visitors were counted.

The participating institutions were open from 6 PM to midnight. The offerings spanned all of Austria and individual cultural venues in neighboring countries.

With around 300,000 visits, the balance of the anniversary round is significantly stronger than that of the previous year. The decline at that time was accompanied by bad weather.

(Red)

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