September 27, 2026
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‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music

Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s length

Let’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start.

Just two decades after the second world war, a Hollywood crew descended on Salzburg with stars, show tunes and a compelling, essentially true story of love and opposition to Adolf Hitler: The Sound of Music.

Kym Karath, Debbie Turner, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Charmian Carr and Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music.

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