With over two million items, the Multimedia Collections are among the most important audiovisual collections in Austria. Their photographic, audio and film documents are of historical, cultural, regional and technological relevance, and document Styria and its people in transition to the digital age.

From 2011, the collections will be accessible to a broader public in the Joanneum Quarter. There will be more attention for digitalising the archives for the long term and for greater accessibility. This is why the Multimedia Collections decided temporarily to discontinue the user service in August 2009, until the reopening in the new premises in the Joanneum Quarter.

The Joanneum Quarter isn’t quite functioning as a museum: it lacks a research staff. However, the archive continues to grow, because of an active acquisitions policy plus several assignments to photograph the current changes in the region.