The Ferdinandeum, named after Archduke Ferdinand Karl, is the principal art and history museum of Tyrol. The collection spans Gothic sculpture and altarpieces, Renaissance and Baroque painting, 19th-century Tyrolean art, and modern Austrian works — with particular strength in the medieval and early modern periods that defined the region's culture.
The Gothic collection on the upper floors is outstanding: altarpieces, carved Madonnas, and devotional works from the parishes of the Inn and Ötz valleys represent a tradition of Alpine religious art that developed largely independently of the Italian Renaissance unfolding just over the Brenner. The museum also holds a significant collection of Tyrolean craft and cultural history, and mounts temporary exhibitions covering everything from Romanesque architecture to contemporary artists from the region.