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...

Reading by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç & discussion - The European Qurʾān “Whoever erases the Islamic from this poetry erases the poetic in Islam”, writes the author and award-winning poet Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç in his highly acclaimed book Muslimaniac (2023). Keskinkılıç deals academically and artistically with issues such as anti-Muslim racism, Orientalism, and the influence of European-Islamic history on contemporary cultural production. In his poetry debut Prinzenbad (2022),...

and her Mid-century Travel Photography in South America In this edition of Deep Dive Tuesday, former guest researcher Nora Carolina Pearce will introduce the Viennese photographer Edith Hittmair (1934–2011) and a selection of her photographs from South America. Although over one thousand of her photographs and postcards are in the Weltmuseum Wien photography collection, Hittmair has been practically unknown to us up until very recently. Drawn to capturing Indigenous people and locals,...

Opening of the Exhibition We would like to invite you to the opening of our new special exhibition Colonialism on the Window Sill! This exhibition shines a spotlight on ten plants that have been favourites of European living rooms and balconies for centuries, though their natural habitats are outside the continent. These plants share a history with our ethnographic collections; some of them joined the objects on long naval voyages to reach Europe and the museums. Beyond the demand...

#MuseumFromHome #weltmuseumwien Follow us on Facebook and Instagram , where we will keep you up to date. Digital guided tours Digital guided tours Weltmuseum Wien Insights What is actually on display at the Weltmuseum Wien? Accompany our cultural mediators Stella Asiimwe and Muhammet Ali Bas on a journey through the collections on display. INSIGHT #1 - Weltmuseum Wien introduces itself INSIGHT #3 - South Seas. Where do the deceased belong to? INSIGHT #5 - Into a New World: We still exist....

Extinctions!? An exhibition as part of the project TAKING CARE 23 February 2023 to 2 April 2024 In light of the ongoing climate crisis and its impact on biodiversity, questions and fears of endangerment and loss are at the centre of public discourse. A sixth major extinction event is expected in the course of the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is the age in which humans become the most important factor influencing the biological, geological and atmospheric processes of the Earth. Zemi belt,...

Magical Opening of the new Weltmuseum Wien The time had finally come on 25 October 2017: the new Weltmuseum Wien opened its doors after three years of reconstruction – with a spectacular show curated by André Heller at Vienna’s Heldenplatz. More than 7,500 people came to celebrate with us and to light a beacon of tolerance, respect, cooperation. There was a great run on the Museum both after the show and for the Open House on 26 October 2017 – with around 9,500 visitors. Artists from all across...

Workshop by the Kunst VHS – Who’s Wearing the Pants? Favourite trousers are loved as dearly as a living being. The end of a favourite pair of trousers' life is often a sad event. In this workshop, we will bring your favourite trousers back to life. As a first step, we will explore their life story by drawing them. The drawing forms the basis for making the individual life story grow three-dimensionally with needle and thread, using filling materials and recycled fabrics. In this way, a new...

Questions & Answers Here you will find answers to frequently asked questions. Tickets Tickets For how long is my ticket valid? Admission tickets are valid indefinitely from the date of purchase. Visitors are free to decide when they wish to visit the museum. Similarly, so-called combi-tickets are valid at the entrance until their date of expiry, and can be used on different days. However, please be sure to make a note of the museum’s opening hours. For how long is my combi-ticket valid?...

The Aztecs 15 October 2020 to 22 June 2021 Weltmuseum Wien is hosting an exhibition that showcases the legendary art and culture of the Aztecs. This comprehensive show offers visitors the first-ever chance to get to know the Aztecs in their cultural context. About the exhibition About the exhibition Exhibition view © KHM-Museumsverband In the early sixteenth century, at the time of the Spanish conquest, the Aztecs who called themselves Mexica ruled large parts of Mesoamerica. A nomadic people...

Sharing Stories. Speaking Objects Sharing Stories – an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Project about Story Telling, Material Culture, Difficult Heritage and Multiperspectivity © Tal Adler About the project About the project Meaningful objects carry unique stories that conserve past memories, symbolize ideas and values, and help us define and present ourselves. At the same time, the same objects can carry very different meanings for others. The project Sharing Stories examines the place in which...

Tailor-made offers From guided tours to children's birthday parties Are you interested in a special region or topic? Would you like to decide for yourself when and for whom to have a guided tour? Take advantage of this great opportunity and book a guided tour in English or German just for yourself, for two, with friends, family, or colleagues. Of course this offer is not limited to tours alone. Celebrate your birthday with us or book a creative workshop at the museum. Contact...

Galleries of Marvel Only until 8 January 2023 24 January 2019 to 8 January 2023 New at Galleries of Marvel Sacrifices in precarious times: from the Moche culture to the current climate crisis Until 8 January 2023 Around 1,500 years ago, the Moche culture along the arid northern coast of Peru performed human sacrifices to mitigate climatic and ecological disasters caused by severe “El Niño” events. The precarious living conditions in consequence of “El Niño” have shaped societal structures and...

TAKING CARE Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care In October 2019, the Weltmuseum Wien inaugurated the new EU-funded cooperation project “TAKING CARE. Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care”. TAKING CARE explores the connections between ethnographic collections and questions regarding the climate crisis and the Anthropocene, and in this context addresses issues related to the afterlives of colonialism. It positions ethnographic and world cultures museums as...

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Allow us to reintroduce ourselves Allow us to reintroduce ourselves is an illustrative portrayal of moments of Black Austrian history by Black history experts, creatives and cultural workers from across Europe and the Black diaspora. Curator Tonica Hunter brings together historian and journalist Vanessa Spanbauer and visual artist Rossel Chaslie in this collaborative artistic-historic project which reflects on the past, depicts the present and imagines a better future for Black life in Austria....

#StandWithukraine We stand for peace and condemn the war against Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine Free admission Free admission with »Kulturpass Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur« With the »Kulturpass«, people with financial constraints as well as all refugees receive free admission to the museums of the KHM Museum Association. More information about the project and who can get the culture pass can be found here Caritas Emergency Aid for Ukraine Caritas Emergency Aid for Ukraine The people in Ukraine need...

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