Interactive Dialogue Tour Based on the work “Relics of Resilience” by the artist group Superflux, participants take a tour of the exhibition and then immerse themselves in a speculative future scenario. They slip into suggested “more-than-human” roles and discuss together how humanity has mastered the path to the year 2126. Can nature, animals, and humans be equal allies in this future? If so, how would such a society be organized? The vision is further developed together. Tour in German...
Guided Tour - Vienna Pride 2025 How did breastmilk and tobacco seeds contribute to the creation of the world? Why did samurai slip into women’s clothing? And why did people in Ethiopia wear a phallus on their head? Discover juicy tales about eroticism, fertility, and sexuality, as well as gender roles and their changeability, based on unexpected objects from the Weltmuseum Wien’s permanent collection. Duration : 60 min. Participation : € 6 (valid museum ticket required) ...
Guided tour with Jani Kuhnt-Saptodewo Jani Kuhnt-Saptodewo is president of the Weltmuseum Wien Friends and former curator of the Insular Southeast Asia collection at the Weltmuseum Wien. She will lead a tour of the solo exhibition The Ultimate Breath by Indah Arsyad. The exhibition focuses on breathing, which serves as a symbol for global issues such as environmental pollution and climate change. The exhibition brings together art, science, technology, and culture, explores the...
Interactive Dialogue Tour Based on the work “Relics of Resilience” by the artist group Superflux, participants take a tour of the exhibition and then immerse themselves in a speculative future scenario. They slip into suggested “more-than-human” roles and discuss together how humanity has mastered the path to the year 2126. Can nature, animals, and humans be equal allies in this future? If so, how would such a society be organized? The vision is further developed together. Tour in German...
Alma M. Karlin Alone Around the World 16 September 2021 to 18 January 2022 About the exhibition About the exhibition The writer Alma M. Karlin was born in 1889. Her birth town, Celje in modern-day Slovenia, was then dominated by the rift between Slovenian and German speakers and nationalism movements in the Habsburg Empire of the time, engendering a political narrow-mindedness that Karlin spent her entire life trying to escape. She studied several languages in London and embarked on a world...
Yussef Agbo-Ola Yussef Agbo-Ola, born 1990, Newport News, Virginia, United States, is an artist and medicinal architect living between London, Lagos, and the Amazon Forest. Born in rural Virginia in a multi-heritage Nigerian, African-American, and Cherokee household, his work reflects hybrid identities and relationships to different landscapes, ecologies, and cultural rituals. Agbo-Ola’s multidisciplinary artistic practice is concerned with interpreting natural energy systems, through...
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...
Information Weltmuseum Wien - It's all about people The Weltmuseum Wien presents itself as a venue for connecting cultures and people in unique fashion. As such, the museum is dedicated to the cultural diversity of humankind and strives to document the diverse historical ties between Austria and the world in its collections from all around the globe. As the very heart of the museum which has been reopend in October 2017, the permanent exhibition has been redesigned from the ground up. Strung...
