Guided tour – permanent collection & special exhibition Tabita Rezaire On this tour of the Weltmuseum Wien's permanent collection and the special exhibition Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection , we focus on the diverse presence of female power as creator, protector and source of life. We encounter figures such as Yemoja, an Orisha from the Yoruba tradition who symbolises water, fertility and motherhood; Yebaburo from the Amazon, who created the earth...

SWICH – Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage SWICH – Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage is an EU-funded cooperation project among 10 European ethnographic museums. Together, the partner museums reflect upon the future of ethnographic museums in a society shaped by the processes of migration and globalisation. Weltmuseum Wien acts as lead partner for this project, running from October 2014 until September 2018. SWICH Closing Conference in Vienna. (c) Kathi...

Tabita Rezaire Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection 17 September 2025 to 11 January 2026 Buy Ticket With Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection, Weltmuseum Wien presents the first solo exhibition of Tabita Rezaire (*1989) in Austria. In her work, the multidisciplinary artist, activist, and healer combines digital technologies with spiritual, non-Western, and indigenous knowledge systems. Through her artistic practice, she explores healing as a decolonial...

Lisl Ponger The Master Narrative Since 25 October 2017 At the invitation of the Weltmuseum Wien, the MuKul, the (fictitious) Museum for Foreign and Familiar Cultures is presenting an exhibition of works by artist Lisl Ponger. Visitors are invited to take part in an exploratory journey that starts out from six large-scale, staged photographs in light boxes and a 2-channel installation with the title The Master Narrative und Don Durito which lasts a full museum day. About the exhibition About the...

Galleries of Marvel Only until 8 January 2023 24 January 2019 to 8 January 2023 New at Galleries of Marvel Sacrifices in precarious times: from the Moche culture to the current climate crisis Until 8 January 2023 Around 1,500 years ago, the Moche culture along the arid northern coast of Peru performed human sacrifices to mitigate climatic and ecological disasters caused by severe “El Niño” events. The precarious living conditions in consequence of “El Niño” have shaped societal structures and...

(Un)Known Artists of the Amazon 24 April 2024 to 21 April 2025 This exhibition is a project jointly undertaken by the Weltmuseum Wien and the private Museu de Arte Indígena (MAI) in Curitiba, Brazil. The show’s curators, Claudia Augustat and Julianna Podolan (MAI), engage these two museum collections in dialogue, reflecting thereby the manner in which autonomous works of art have evolved from functional and ritual objects. Manoel Martins Neto Preparation for body painting (detail) 2018 © Museu...

Workshop for Children (3 – 6 years) Weltmuseum Wien is home to many animals. Although they are displayed behind glass, all of them have secret stories to tell. Kura Kura, our museum tortoise, knows them well. Join our mascot when she visits her friends and listens to their intriguing stories! This workshop in German is part of the WIENXTRA-Kinderaktiv programme . Tickets : Participation : €4.50 for children and adults Regular museum admission for...

Workshop for children (7 – 12 years) Our approach to animals, plants, and natural resources is characterized by exploitation and destruction. How do environmental pollution and climate change affect our lives today? And how are these issues reflected in the objects on display at the Weltmuseum Wien? We will explore these questions and consider how we can make our living spaces more sustainable and liveable again. The workshop provides inspiration to explore our collective responsibility and...

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....

القرآن الأوروبي ما هو الدور الذي يلعبه الكتاب المقدس للإسلام، القرآن الكريم، في تاريخ الفكر الأوروبي؟ كيف تمت قراءته وفهمه في أوروبا منذ الترجمات الأولى في العصور الوسطى؟ سيُفتتح معرض خاص في خريف 2024 في متحف Weltmuseum Wien يتناول هذه الأسئلة. سيوضح المعرض الطرق المتنوعة التي تمت بها تجربة القرآن الكريم وقراءته وتفسيره في أوروبا. من خلال القطع الأثرية التاريخية الأصلية والأعمال الفنية المعاصرة و المنشآت الميديا و بالتعاون مع شبكة البحث "القرآن الأوروبي - القرآن في أوروبا"، تم تطوير هذا المعرض...

Feather, fashion and cross cultural exchange A colonial feather insignia from Mexico In the frame of this project, initiated in 2021, the Weltmuseum Wien will continue research on feather work from Mexico. In cooperation with the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City (MNA-INAH), a colonial feather insignia is investigated and significant stories of cross-cultural encounters will be uncovered in the process. © KHM-Museumsverband About the project About the project In October of 2021, the...

The Art of Being a World Culture Museum Photography by Wolfgang Thaler 16 February to 24 November 2019 World Culture and Ethnographic Museums are the museums of our time in Europe. They are in the spotlight of a changing society and in the centre of public discourse about cultural diversity, the legacies of colonialism, and the challenges of living together in a society shaped by migration and globalisation. About the exhibition About the exhibition This exhibition shows a selection of photos by...

A colonial thing 5 December 2019 to 6 September 2020 The question of how ethnographic museums should deal with their colonial pasts has been discussed even among the general public in recent years. Guidelines and recommendations have been developed that take into account the following aspects: who needs to, should, or can restitute artefacts? To whom should material culture be returned? Oracle bone devination apparatus © KHM-Museumsverband © KHM-Museumsverband About the exhibition About the...

FOREST OF MIRRORS Anthropologist STINE KRØIJER & Photographer MIKE KOLLÖFFEL 25 May to 16 July 2019 © Mike Kollöffel About the Exhibition About the Exhibition Forest of Mirrors explores the figures and patterns that emerge when a forest mirrors itself in the black water lagoons of Bëweya. Inspired by Sieko-pai cosmology, the exhibition invites the spectator into an animate landscape. Bëweya is part of the ancestral territory of the Sieko-pai, a Tukano-speaking indigenous group living on the...

Corporate Sponsorship The Weltmuseum Wien is an attractive partner for important Austrian businesses as well as global players with roots or business interest in Austria. Every business is unique, just as are our collections. For this reason, we would like to personally get to know our partners from the world of business: their strategies and their representatives, and only the work out an individual proposal. Become a long-term partner, or a sponsor/cooperation-partner for one of our many...