Andersrum [vice versa] An artistic intervention by Veronika Szücs Veronika Szücs worked as a Fellow at the Weltmuseum Wien between December 2019 and November 2020 as part of her kültüřgemma! scholarship and prepared the alternative museum guide “Andersrum” – a graphic novel with protagonists from the display collection. © Veronika Szücs Graphic-Novel-Guide Graphic-Novel-Guide The graphic novel with a total of forty-eight pages portrays an imaginary walk through thirteen exhibition halls of the...

Sharing Stories 25 October 2017 to 28 February 2019 Over the course of more than two years, beginning in 2015, the Weltmuseum Wien has set up ten temporary stations around Vienna and invited the broad public to bring an object meaningful to them and to tell its story. Farrokh Fattahi’s Comparsita © Tal Adler About the exhibition About the exhibition Alongside the 150 stories we collected, the exhibition highlights a selection of 20 of them. These objects are portrayed in Tal Adler’s photographic...

JUMP!STAR Simmering JUMP!STAR Simmering, a process-oriented artistic project organised by the Brunnenpassage cultural centre and the Weltmuseum Wien was originally scheduled to take place in the Viennese district of Simmering but was ultimately held online with a virtual format because of the social distancing measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. © George Ferrandi About the project About the project The artistic point of departure for JUMP!STAR is the barely known fact that in 1,000 years from...

Pop-Up World Narratives 25 October 2017 to 26 August 2018 The reopening of the Weltmuseum Wien is accompanied by an innovative book about the Museum. The exhibition Pop-Up World: Narratives turns part of this book into a real-life experience. Sets of several objects are arranged into individual narratives. The range of themes stretches from traditional ethnography to art history, from historical backgrounds of object acquisitions to the beliefs of various world religions, and from collectors and...

South Sudan Museums Network Connecting the arts and heritage of South Sudan in European museums As part of an international network of European museums, experts and representatives from South Sudan and the Weltmuseum Wien are making tangible steps towards a major programme of research and exploration based on South Sudanese museum collections. Pair of figures, Unknown Bari master, South Sudan, before 1882, Gift by Martin Hansal, Imperial and Royal Consul in Khartoum The Weltmuseum Wien has been...

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...

Beyond the Future Modern japanese Calligraphy 30 March 2023 to 9 January 2024 On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the calligraphy group Keiseikai in 2020, artists planned a memorial exhibition under the motto ‘Japanese calligraphers dedicated to Vienna’, which had to be postponed due to Covid-19. The artists paid tribute to Austria’s generous support in 2011, when eastern Japan was hit by a major earthquake that caused the nuclear disaster of Fukushima. Himmel über dem Turm zu Babel,...

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,...

Insights into Japan-related Overseas Artefacts and Documents from the 19th century in Europe Research and Use This research project, initiated by Japan, is devoted to the scientific reappraisal of the Heinrich von Siebolds (1852–1908) Collection in the Weltmuseum Wien. So far, approximately 5,400 objects from the areas of art and everyday life have been made accessible since 2016 in publications, exhibitions and databases. About the project About the project The project Insights into...