Other small museums and galleries of note include the Dom’s own Cathedral Museum, whose Art and Rarities Collection presents some extraordinary items from the city’s long and important ecclesiastical history. There is also the Civic Hospital’s Toy Museum; the Galerie der Stadt Salzburg (Salzburg Art Gallery); and of course, the two Mozart houses. Of these, the birthplace is the more well-endowed, proudly showing such treasures as the composer’s first violin, his own clavichord and pianoforte, and many portraits and letters from the Mozart family.
Another apartment in the building has been elaborately furnished to recreate the lifestyle of a 18th-century Salzburg household. Also not to be missed is the eerie, tangled old cemetery of Petersfriedhof, with its tombs built into the rock walls of Münchsberg (the great promontory upon which the Hohensalzburg is perched), and a Christian catacomb thought to date from the 3rd century.
The Hohensalzburg itself is quite as much of a sight close up as it is from below; a funicular is available for a small fee and will lift you up to a spectacular
view of the city and surrounding countryside. There is a small armory museum at the castle and a restaurant — the latter rather pricey, but in spring or summer the terrace overlooking the bluff is a dazzling place to linger over a coffee & pastry. (You can see the Hohensalzburg restaurant immortalized in the opening scenes of that hilarious and underappreciated Walter Mathau comedy, "Hopscotch".)
An organized tour stands ready to guide you through the staterooms and offices in which the archbishops wielded their tremendous power — not to mention the torture chambers and dungeons which helped them keep it. If you’re fit & nimble and the weather is dry, consider hiking back to town instead of taking the funicular; poke around the castle grounds a bit and you’ll find a steep winding trail that leads downward through woods and quiet shady arbors, before suddenly surprising you with Salzburg. (Note that use of the trail in winter months is discouraged by castle authorities, who doubtless fear lawsuits from tumbling tourists; if you find it blocked off by a chain, the going is likely to be difficult and you’re well advised to take the hint.)
