The Carinthian State Museum is a multidisciplinary museum with eight departments and eleven museum locations. It is Carinthia‘s leading natural and cultural science and art history institution with a pioneering role and international standards in the areas of research, communication and preservation of objects. It has collections in many subject areas including objects from archaeology, art, botany, folk culture, geology, history, mineralogy, numismatics, paleontology and zoology. The museum has its origin in the activities of the Historical Society for Carinthia (1844), the Natural Science Society for Carinthia (1848) and the Kärntner Landsmannschaft. Since 1884, their collections have been housed together in the carinthia.museum in Klagenfurt.