Filmarchiv Austria will leave any movie buff drooling.

Picture an open air screening of “Pandora’s Box” starring the queen of the silver screen Louise Brooks as Lulu while a live pianist plays on. Or a film retrospective dedicated to Erich von Stroheim, the extravagant Austrian-born actor who starred as Max von Mayerling in Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard.”

Located on the perimeter of Augarten, a beautiful baroque park in Vienna’s 2nd District, Filmarchiv Austria is dedicated to collecting, preserving and projecting Austria’s moving image heritage. Its state-of-the-art media archive and research center boasts an impressive library of 100,000 films, two million photographs and film stills, and several thousand film programs and posters. Books and films from Filmarchiv Austria’s own publication series are available for sale at a shop on premises.

As part of its mission, Filmarchiv Austria hosts regular film screenings at Metrokino, a historic movie theater in the heart of Vienna’s 1st District, whose gorgeously plush interior provides the perfect backdrop for annual film festivals such as the Viennale and the Jewish Film Festival.