Colonialism on the Window Sill 28 May 2025 to 25 May 2026 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 for medicinal plants and crops (nowadays ‘cash crops’ that are cultivated on a grand...
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Feather, Fashion and Cross Cultural Exchange Over the past three years, research into feather objects from Mexico has been the focus of a joint project between the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and the Conservation Department of the Weltmuseum Wien. We invite you to deepen this topic in our series of events with a lecture and two deep-dive workshops. A feather insignia from the museum's collection, currently on display in the gallery Stories from Mesoamerica , is an early...
Performative and participatory tour Starting from the exhibition The Colours of the Earth. Modern Textile Art in Mexico, we examine the museum’s permanent exhibition: Which stories are told, and which are left out? Which ones are still unheard? Which ones can we add? Where are the crevices? Where are the cracks? We take a close look into these gaps and dive into the abyss of the void. This format was developed in the artistic seminar Field Research at the Weltmuseum Wien by Loki Lotta...
On the Backs of Camels 27 February 2024 to 26 January 2025 Living together with camels and their close relatives shapes cultures. It is a source of livelihood for people around the world and part of their cultural identity. In a special exhibition scheduled to begin in 2024, the Weltmuseum Wien will explore the many aspects of life with dromedaries, Bactrian camels, llamas, and alpacas and will examine the effect that these animals, broadly called camelids, have had on the societies of which...
In Commemoration of 150 Years of the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition (Expo) – Bridging Japan and Europe Vienna celebrated the 150th anniversary of the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition in 2023. To mark the occasion, the Weltmuseum Wien 2023 also focused on this topic: As part of the project In Commemoration of 150 Years of the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition (Expo) – Bridging Japan and Europe at the Weltmuseum Wien (KHM-Museumsverband), a short edutainment Film Japan at the Vienna World Exhibition and the...
