Dejan Kaludjerović Conversations 25 October 2017 to 30 September 2018 Dejan Kaludjerović (born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia) makes drawings, paintings, installations and research-based projects. This installation ‚Conversations´ is one such project, culminating as a kind of overview of multi-year research and production. Between the years 2013 and 2017, Kaludjerović interviewed children (6-10 years old) with a set of simple but provocative questions. About the exhibition About the exhibition...

ZukunftsKwizin In cooperation with the Brunnenpassage ZukunftsKwizin was a three-year participatory art project with young women. The more than seventy participants form a diverse group with many different life experiences and interests. Important questions addressed by this collaborative effort are flight, gender, identity, feminism and shaping the future. © Brunnenpassage About the project About the project ZukunftsKwizin opted for a critical transcultural and aesthetic approach to the topic...

Weltmuseum Wien Support Find your precious! / 210 objects Filter Show taken Price Department Fotosammlung Nord- und Mittelamerika Süd-, SO-Asien, Himalaya Insulares Südostasien Afrika südlich der Sahara Ozeanien und Australien Ostasien Südamerika Nordafrika, Vorder- und Zentralasien, Sibirien Sponsorship taken Sponsorship taken Sponsorship taken 250 € 250 € 5000 € 1000 € Sponsorship taken Sponsorship taken Sponsorship taken Sponsorship taken 250 € 250 € 250 € Sponsorship taken 250 € 500 € 250 €...

Indah Arsyad The Ultimate Breath 26 November 2025 to 25 May 2026 Indah Arsyad’s solo exhibition The Ultimate Breath focuses on breathing as a central theme, symbolising global issues such as environmental pollution and climate change. The exhibition brings together art, science, technology, and culture, exploring the connections between mythology and technology and highlighting how important both are for maintaining balance in the universe. Indah Arsyad © KHM-Museumsverband, Daniel Sostaric...

Curatorial Departments The collections of the Weltmuseum Wien comprise nearly 536.000 objects from all over the world. Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa The collection encompasses ca. 37,000 objects and reflects the cultural diversity of Africa from the Sahel to the southernmost tip of the continent, from Muslim Senegal in the west to Christian Ethiopia and the island of Madagascar in the east. Among the highlights of the collection are exceptional bronzes and ivory objects from the Benin...

Questions & Answers Here you will find answers to frequently asked questions. Tickets Tickets For how long is my ticket valid? Admission tickets are valid indefinitely from the date of purchase. Visitors are free to decide when they wish to visit the museum. Similarly, so-called combi-tickets are valid at the entrance until their date of expiry, and can be used on different days. However, please be sure to make a note of the museum’s opening hours. For how long is my combi-ticket valid?...

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...

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...

Stories of Traumatic Pasts Counter-Archives for Future Memories 8 October 2020 to 3 April 2021 The exhibition Stories of Traumatic Pasts: Counter-Archives for Future Memories focuses on three European regions, their stories, and their current experiences of collective amnesia in relation to traumatic events from the past: Belgian colonial rule in the Congo, Austria after the "Anschluss" in 1938, and the denial of war crimes since 1990 after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Monique Mbeka Phoba, A...