Sound of Music museum opens where the von Trapp…
SALZBURG, Austria — An Austrian museum is alive with “The Sound of Music,” a first-ever venue devoted to the traditional 1965 singalong film starring Julie Andrews.
The Sound of Music Salzburg museum, located in an Austrian metropolis famed for music and maybe best recognized as the home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, opened Sunday.
The attendees included Elisabeth von Trapp, granddaughter of Georg and Agathe von Trapp, whose household story impressed the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical and Hollywood blockbuster. She continues to give guided tours of film websites in Salzburg today.
Records with the movie rating of the musical movie “The Sound of Music” are displayed in the exhibition of the new “Sound Of Music Salzburg” museum in Salzburg, Austria. AP Photo/Philipp-Moritz Jenne
“It is intimate enough so you really have a beautiful sense of the storyline of both the Sound of Music and the Trapp family singers — my relatives. I’m very proud of that,” Elisabeth von Trapp said of the new museum.
Her father, Werner, was one of the authentic Trapp Family Singers — although moviegoers know his character by another title. “My father is depicted in the movie as Kurt; his name was Werner von Trapp. Just to set the record straight,” von Trapp said.
Housed in the Seventeenth-century Hellbrunn Palace, where many scenes from the movie have been shot, the museum distinguishes the real-life story of the von Trapp household from that of the 1959 Broadway musical and later the Hollywood blockbuster.
Set against Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938, the story facilities on a governess named Maria who teaches seven youngsters in the von Trapp household to sing and love music — before falling in love with their father and her employer, widower Georg von Trapp.
The Sound of Music Salzburg museum, located in an Austrian metropolis famed for music and maybe best recognized as the home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, opened Sunday. AP Photo/Philipp-Moritz Jenne
Museum officers observe the real von Trapp, a submarine commander in the Austro-Hungarian navy, was “not a strict paternalist” — as he was depicted by the movie’s main man, Christopher Plummer — but “a considerate, albeit much-burdened, father.”
Visitors are handled to practically 450 objects, including props and costumes from the movie, cinema posters, and recordings of the music. A centerpiece is the gazebo where teenager Liesl von Trapp and her suitor Rolf sing the courtship duet “Sixteen Going on Seventeen.”
Fans of the movie — which collected 5 Oscars including best image — have long flocked to Salzburg: Several hundred thousand go to the metropolis each 12 months.
Elisabeth von Trapp, heart, guides guests to places of the musical movie “The Sound of Music” in Salzburg, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. AP Photo/Philipp-Moritz Jenne
John and Terry Combs, a couple from Dayton, Ohio, have been accompanying von Trapp on her strolling tour through Salzburg.
“I love the combination of it being much about the movie, of course, but about the real von Trapp family, which I’ve read much about over the years,” said Terry Combs. “And having met and known Elisabeth a little bit — it just brought it full circle.”
The new exhibition is open daily until Nov. 1. After a transient bidding of “So long, farewell” to guests late this 12 months, the museum is scheduled to reopen next March.
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