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Vorarlberg has a diverse, extremely active cultural scene achieving impressive standards both in terms of local productions right up to internationally acclaimed works. Most local authorities offer attractive cultural programs with their own special attractions depending on the region. 

The regional cultural centres, such as Dornbirn's "Spielboden", the Feldkirch "Saumarkt" or the Bludenz "Remise" host a wide range of programs with contemporary music, theatre, literature, dance, film and visual arts. In other places, e.g. in Lustenau or Bregenzerwald, cultural initiatives focus, for example, on jazz or youth culture and organise various festivals.  Particularly in Rheintal, but also outside of the main centres, there is a wide range of offers from the youth musical to the opera right up to church music. Well-organised associations provide the organisation foundations for a colourful and exciting cultural scene. The voluntary associations such as the brass band, choir, writer's clubs or amateur theatre groups form the collecting basin for the interlinking of projects and programs.  

Alongside Vorarlberg's State Theatre there is a whole series of fringe theatre groups. The avant garde of the visual arts meets in Bregenz's  "Magazin 4", in the  "KunstRaum Dornbirn" or in any of a number of private galleries. Vorarlberg also has an extremely diverse museum landscape ranging from the State Museum in Bregenz to the new INATURA in Dornbirn, the Jewish Museum in Hohenems, the Women's Museum in Hittisau, right up to the Museum of Local History and Culture in Montafon. In total there are over fifty regional museums.

With the "Bregenz Opera Festival" or the "Kunsthaus Bregenz" the State capital Bregenz has two extremely successful bridgeheads to the international art scene. Every year the Schubert Festival in Schwarzenberg and the Feldkirch Festival attract thousands of art lovers to Vorarlberg from all over the world.

In the field of built heritage and the cultivation of local traditions and customs, the State is concerned to preserve valuable heritage by means of selective promotion and to keep up with supraregional developments through regular cross-border contacts.