Linz: the museum that lights up at night

European Capital of Culture in 2009, Linz combines a Baroque historic center with a digital art museum whose facade changes color every evening.

For Pöstlingberg there's a historic rack railway; the rest of the center is explored on foot.

On the Hauptplatz, one of Austria's broadest Baroque squares, colorful palaces surround the Trinity Column erected in memory of the plague, among the city's most photographed monuments.

Just steps away, Linz Castle dominates the Danube from atop its hill, today home to a historical museum with collections about the city.

Climbing aboard the Pöstlingbergbahn, among the world's steepest rack railways since 1898, you reach the pilgrimage basilica atop the Pöstlingberg.

Toward evening, the Ars Electronica Center, dedicated to digital art and the future of technology, illuminates its facade with programmable luminous patterns visible from across the city.

The facade of the Ars Electronica Center changes color and pattern every evening according to different programs, making the building itself part of the city's permanent artistic exhibition.

The Pöstlingbergbahn climbs the slope without needing an additional rack-and-pinion system, relying solely on wheel adhesion: a remarkable technical feat for such a steep grade in the late nineteenth century.