The Egon Schiele Museum has been a permanent fixture in Tulln’s museum landscape since 1990. Opened on the artist’s 100th birthday, it is dedicated to the town’s famous son and housed in a former prison – now a listed building – on Tulln’s Donaulände Danube promenade.

Since 2011, the museum has focussed on the period between Schiele’s birth and the establishment of the Neukunstgruppe group of artists in 1909. The Egon Schiele Museum emphasises the significance of Tulln in the artist’s life, so its topics are unlike those of other presentations of Schiele’s work. The aim is not just to help citizens identify more strongly with the town’s famous son, but also to encourage visitors to the city to explore the museum.
As the building cannot be connected to the district heating network for technical reasons, the museum and town of Tulln (the owner of the property) are currently exploring the feasibility of heat pumps and other constructive measures (sliding doors, improved ventilation system). 
From 2024, the Egon Schiele Museum will run on 100% renewable energy, and there are plans to increase the amount of energy-saving lighting.
The building is already mostly equipped with water-saving bathroom facilities; the situation will improve further when facilities need to be replaced. We attempt to avoid waste as much as possible. Where it cannot be avoided, we sort and recycle it appropriately. Signs encourage visitors to deposit waste in designated containers. We use office materials and forms sparingly, and we purchase sustainable goods from quality labels. 
The Egon Schiele Museum is very easy to reach via public transport. We use our communication channels to draw our visitors’ attention to this option and encourage them to choose sustainable mobility options. 
According to our Austrian Ecolabel certification, we are obliged to continuously evaluate and improve our sustainability efforts and communicate our achievements in this regard. 

We all need to think and act sustainably! It is the only way we can preserve our planet in the long run and ensure greater accessibility and social justice for our communities.

As artistic, cultural and scientific institutions we are able to raise social awareness by presenting and communicating high-quality cultural content. We believe in the importance of working towards sustainability, environmental protection and respectful communities without exclusion or discrimination. We implement concrete measures at our artistic, cultural and scientific institutions and their events and exhibitions. But we also need to explicitly address the issue of sustainability in the exchange with our audiences. After all, we want to encourage the arts and sciences to explore sustainability-related topics. That is why the NÖKU Group came up with its own sustainability standard in the autumn of 2020. It is a sustainability guideline for all employees of the Group, its 40-odd artistic and scientific institutions and their operating branches, for events and exhibitions, as well as the NÖKU Holding itself. The standard is being implemented incrementally and consistently by all operations involved. It includes a comprehensive assessment and evaluation of all significant areas of activity involved in the planning and execution of events and exhibitions: locations, event and exhibition technology, all procurement processes, waste management, social matters (such as accessibility), mobility/transport, catering, communication, accommodation.

The NÖKU Group’s sustainability strategy contributes to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Art, culture, science and the promotion of creativity contribute in equal measure to the scientific, social and ecological dimensions of the 2030 Agenda.

Sustainability officers from the individual operations now communicate regularly on the NÖKU’s newly created sustainability platform in order to promote the transfer of knowledge and the exchange of experiences. Since early 2022, any implemented measures have been evaluated and communicated both internally and externally.