Tactile Guided Tour for visually impaired and blind visitors We cordially invite you to a tactile guided tour of the exhibition SUPERFLUX: The Craftocene for visually impaired and blind visitors and their companions. We offer a free accessible guided tour every month, alternating between a guided tour with sign language interpretation (ÖGS/D) for deaf and hard of hearing people and a guided tour for blind and visually impaired visitors. Tour in German language. ...

Guided Tour with Sign Language Interpretation. Let yourself be carried away and learn more about the exhibition SUPERFLUX: The Craftocene . A sign language interpreter will support us in our common exchange about the objects. If required, we will provide induction loops. We offer a free accessible guided tour every month, alternating between a guided tour with sign language interpretation (ÖGS/D) for deaf and hard of hearing people and a guided tour for blind and visually impaired...

Workshop for children & adults The open studio invites families to create upcycling projects inspired by sustainable craftsmanship. Come by and join in – we look forward to seeing you! On one Saturday a month, our studio will be open for 2½ hours to young and old (children aged 3 to 10 and adults) – during this time, you can come whenever you want. Bring an adult with you and experience art together. Duration : come and go at any time. Who can participate ? Children...

Guided Tour – Women in the Collection Lovable as a decorative feather was the unborn baby for the Aztecs. Quetzal feathers are also used to make the notorious ancient Mexican feather headdress – one of many interesting objects in the permanent exhibition at the Weltmuseum Wien. Take your baby with you and learn about some of the highlights of the museum’s collection while hearing stories of fertility, creation myths, and the miracle of new life. While inspiration, entertainment, and...

Guided Tour – Women in the Collection Lovable as a decorative feather was the unborn baby for the Aztecs. Quetzal feathers are also used to make the notorious ancient Mexican feather headdress – one of many interesting objects in the permanent exhibition at the Weltmuseum Wien. Take your baby with you and learn about some of the highlights of the museum’s collection while hearing stories of fertility, creation myths, and the miracle of new life. While inspiration, entertainment, and...

Guided Tour – Holi, Nowruz, Cherry Blossoms Lovable as a decorative feather was the unborn baby for the Aztecs. Quetzal feathers are also used to make the notorious ancient Mexican feather headdress – one of many interesting objects in the permanent exhibition at the Weltmuseum Wien. Take your baby with you and learn about some of the highlights of the museum’s collection while hearing stories of fertility, creation myths, and the miracle of new life. While inspiration, entertainment, and...

Dust & Silk Steppe and Silk Roads 16 December 2021 to 3 May 2022 The exhibition Dust & Silk. Steppe and Silk Roads takes visitors on a fascinating journey through the past and the present, exploring connections between these historical routes and the “New Silk Road”. Silk textiles and ikat fabrics, tea, and “wild apples” made their way to Europe along these legendary historical trade routes, which also Marco Polo to travel across Asia. Nevertheless, there has never been such a thing as the Silk...

Dark Pairing Since 20 May 2021 The postcolonial view is the view of empathy and the desire to understand; (…) The postcolonial view recognizes and recognizes hybrid cultures and identities. - Paul Michael Lützeler © Wie-yi T. Lauw About the exhibition About the exhibition This recognition of the hybrid as well as the development of colonial cultures and history is the theme of T. Lauw in Dark Pairing by interweaving plants in a fine-meshed network. Images of cultural inscription and overlay...

Who’s Wearing the Pants? 25 March 2025 to 1 February 2026 In its major special exhibition 2025, the Weltmuseum Wien takes a journey through 3,000 years of trouser history from around the world and uses this symbolic item of clothing to pose the question: ‘Who wears the trousers?’ The large annual exhibition shows treasures and many a bizarre find from the collections of the Weltmuseum Wien, the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Theatermuseum as well as loans from Austrian museums and...

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...

Dispersed and Connected Artistic Fragments Along the Steppe and Silk Roads The project collects and explores narrations, images and imaginations, fragments and artistic expressions of Mongolian belonging along old and new steppe and silk routes, which link dispersed and connected biographies, artistic traditions, cultural monuments and memories. These fragments will be joined in an artistic exhibition at the Weltmuseum Wien, a film montage and a concomitant scientific-artistic fieldwork book....

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...

Japan in the Meiji era The collection Heinrich von Siebold 13 February to 11 August 2020 The Meiji era covers the period from 1868 to 1912 in Japanese history. This was a time when the feudal state was developing into a modern super power, when Japanese society was changing and opening up to the world. This still-unknown country aroused great interest in Europe. Heinrich von Siebold, the son of the doctor and famous researcher on Japan, Philipp Franz von Siebold, travelled to Japan as a teenager...