Round table with Ayesha Fuentes, Elena Holzhausen and Claudia Augustat Museums today are often seen as secular spaces, some actively trying to distance themselves from their religious etymological origins—the Greek word ‘mouseion’, meaning a temple of the Muses. Nonetheless, museums such as the Weltmuseum Wien continue to house ancestors and the dead, and contain powerful objects: Yurupari flutes from the Colombia-Brazil border are deliberately unseen in the exhibition, being spiritual...

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cook café & bistro cook café & bistro The exceptional creativity and character of the cook café & bistro will captivate the senses of all visitors in the Hall of Columns, which is accessible also without a ticket. Seasonal and regional products take centre stage at the cook café & bistro: our chefs only work with the freshest of ingredients and accept nothing but highest quality. Treat yourself to our exquisite delicacies prepared with love and passion in comfortable atmosphere before, during,...

Tandem lecture with Saada Elabed and Tobias Mörike In 1980, the Weltmuseum Wien (then “Museum of Ethnology”) presented the exhibition Bedouins in the Negev. The pieces in this exhibition, on loan from a private collection, were added to the collection of the Zurich Ethnographic Museum in 1986. In 2023, Saada Elabed, who has family connections to the region, began to examine the embroidery among these pieces with a new approach. Whereas the museum had previously seen mainly documents of...

Lecture by Tobias Mörike On the eve of World War I, animal traders Carl Marquardt and Alfred Weidholz undertook trips to North Africa. While their primary purpose was to capture animals for zoological gardens, they also compiled ethnological collections, which they sold to the museum. The collections they purchased shed light on the trade in ethnological objects at the beginning of the 20th century. What objects did the museum order from them and how were they later classified in the museum?...

Saturdance Special Since 2007 the format Saturdance has been a fixed part of the programme Tanz die Toleranz in the Brunnenpassage. The object of this format is to give people the most low-threshold access to dance and movement possible. The joint Saturdance Special workshops in the Weltmuseum Wien, which started in 2021, focus on the current themes of our exhibitions. © Karin Cheng About the project About the project In the past, through numerous exhibitions, workshops and events, the...

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Jump!Star Simmering A cooperation of Brunnenpassage and Weltmuseum Wien 21 December 2020 to 6 July 2021 JUMP!STAR Simmering, a process-oriented artistic project organised by Brunnenpassage ArtSocialSpace and the Weltmuseum Wien was originally scheduled to take place in the Viennese district of Simmering but was ultimately held on a virtual format because of the social distancing measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 21 Days Listening Out Loud & Dreaming Wildly hosted by the JUMP!STAR team was...

Urania travels to Egypt Education and the Orient around 1900 12 December 2012 to 30 June 2013 "… in competent hands…" – this was the motto of a group of seventy persons which in 1912 at Easter set out on a tour of Egypt with the president of the Vienna Urania as its head. The tremendous success of this initial tour made such guided tours into a tradition for Vienna’s Volkshochschulen (VHS), which celebrated their 125 th anniversary in 2012. The exhibition Urania travels to Egypt follows the...

Danced Creation Asia’s Mythical Past and Living Present 1 April 2013 to 2 November 2014 A legend says that by 200 BC the brahman Bharata Muni followed a divine inspiration and wrote a book titled Natya Sastra (The Book of Dance). To this day Indian and South and Southeast Asian dance are strongly influenced by this mysterious book. An exhibition co-curated by six contemporary Asian artists. About the Exhibition About the Exhibition In Asia, dance is an integral aspect of cultural, religious and...

Franz is here! Franz Ferdinand’s journey around the world 9 April to 2 November 2014 “Franz is here!” was the headline of an American newspaper article referring to the visit of Archduke Franz Ferdinand during his world trip 1892/93. Now, 100 years after his death in Sarajevo, Franz Ferdinand visited the Weltmuseum Wien. The presentation offered unexpected insights into the world of this many-facetted and polarising figure. June 28 th 2014 marks the centenary of the assassination of the heir...

WMW Contemporary New perspectives at the Weltmuseum Wien WMW Contemporary represents contemporary art at the Weltmuseum Wien – art of today that deals with topics such as the environment, coexistence, memory, and origin. Three exhibitions this autumn by artists from French Guiana, Mexico, and Indonesia will be dedicated to topics related to water, plant dyes, and our relationship with the earth. The exhibitions of the new format WMW Contemporary Tabita Rezaire combines star constellations, the...