Lecture by Johann Angerler For five different societies in Sumatra – the Orang Rimba (hunters and gatherers), the Siberut and Petalangan (garden farmers), the Batak and Minangkabau (rice farmers on artificially irrigated fields) – wild, uncultivated nature is a numinous “source of blessing” (Reimar Schefold) as well as the basis of their ability to organize themselves as a society. Johann Angerler (PhD, Leiden University) is a cultural anthropologist with many years of research...

Regenerative Design The Weltmuseum Wien as a Lab for the Future Since 6 February 2026 In collaboration with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Weltmuseum Wien is reinterpreting the ethnological museum as not merely a repository for silent artefacts, but as a laboratory for future, globally sustainable lifestyles. By learning from diverse knowledge systems, museum collections can become tools for sustainable design strategies. Antilopenmaske, 1960er Jahre, Unbekannter Meister der Kurumba...

Dance Workshop Dancing is very important for our mental and physical well-being. We invite you to learn together Tari Poco Poco, an Indonesian line dance led by Romo Tanto. Organized by the Weltmuseum Wien Friends in cooperation with the Ambassy of the Republic of Indonesia and the Austrian Indonesian Society. Duration : 60 min. Participation : free Registration : friends@weltmuseumwien.at Meeting Point : Hall of Columns Weltmuseum Wien Friends,...

Discussion – SUPERFLUX: The Craftocene Children and adults are invited to bring along an object they would like to leave behind for the future and tell its story. The contributions will be collected in analogue form at the museum and digitally. Hashtags : #Craftocene #FutureOfThings #WMW Discussion in German language. Participation free Meeting place : Hall of Columns, Family Point Superflux Talk

Adventure Science Etta Becker-Donner in Africa and Latin America 16 November 2011 to 19 March 2012 Between 1955 and 1975, Etta Becker-Donner (1911 - 1975) was the director of the Museum of Ethnology Vienna. She was a major driving force behind the foundations and the enlargement of the present collection. Etta Donner on her first research trip to Liberia 1934 © KHM-Museumsverband About the exhibition About the exhibition In the 1930’s she was the first ethnologist to undertake field studies in...

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...

Digitisation and Retro-Cataloguing The historically valuable holdings of the museum’s library collection have been retro-catalogued and digitised since 2011 and 2013 respectively. As a result, the holdings are preserved and made available to scientific research. Copper and maps on Volume 1 of the voyage of His Serene Highness Prince Maximilian von Neuwied to Brazil in the years 1815 to 1817, Frankfurt am Main [1819] Contact Digitisation Mag. Peter Kloser peter.kloser@khm.at +43 1 525 24-3505...