Guided Tour for Mother's Day For the Aztecs, the unborn baby was as adorable as a decorative feather. The infamous ancient Mexican feather headdress is also made of quetzal feathers - one of many interesting objects in the Weltmuseum Wien's collection that carry (hidden) stories of motherhood, fertility and female power. Duration : 60 min. Participation : € 6 (valid museum ticket required) Tickets online or at the ticket office, while stocks last Meeting place :...

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,...

Who’s Wearing the Pants? The tour with co-curator Hanin Hannouch presents the contemporary art positions of the exhibition Who’s Wearing the Pants? and focuses on the artists’ engagement with questions of body representation, menstruation, and clothing. Duration : 60 min. Admission : € 9 (valid museum ticket required) Tickets available online or at the ticket office Meeting Point : Hall of Columns Wer hat die Hosen an? Führung

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...

Workshop by the Kunst VHS – Who’s Wearing the Pants? Peeing standing up can sometimes be a dangerous challenge for FLINTA* people. In a first step, we will use drawings to explore individual and collective ideas of standing pee trousers and their everyday horror and potential. Materials and shapes will be tested together and combined with the trousers we have brought with us. Finally, we will test the suitability for everyday use of the pee trousers we have made in a joint action. Course...

Workshop by the Kunst VHS – Who’s Wearing the Pants? Fri, 6 June to Sat, 7 June, 2-5 p.m. Brazilian embroidery is a very floral, large-scale, rather coarse embroidery ... very colourful and a mixture of different, very specific stitches. Embroidery techniques are learnt using specific motifs and applied to a pair of trousers. But that's not all: beads, sequins and tassels are added to the mix. Different types of stitches and material science are taught while doing it. Course...

Workshop by the Kunst VHS – Who’s Wearing the Pants? You can sew your own pants – briefs, hipsters and French knickers. The course instructor will bring along patterns to choose from and help with the realisation. Course instructor: Bilyana Kirilova Pelova (Bibi Atelier e.U.) is a fashion designer and master tailor for men and women. After the workshop, there will be an opportunity to visit the exhibition Who’s Wearing the Pants? accompanied by a cultural mediator from...

Workshop by the Kunst VHS – Who’s Wearing the Pants? A simple pair of trousers with an elasticated waistband can be sewn relatively quickly. The course instructor will bring the pattern and help with the realisation. Course instructor: Bilyana Kirilova Pelova (Bibi Atelier e.U.) is a fashion designer and master tailor for men and women. After the workshop, there will be an opportunity to visit the exhibition Who’s Wearing the Pants? accompanied by a cultural mediator from...

Workshop by the Kunst VHS – Who’s Wearing the Pants? In this workshop, you will develop your own personal freedom pants. By addressing the question of how much freedom of movement you want in your everyday life, we will work together to develop a concept for redesigning your (favourite) jeans. Your old trousers, which may already have weak points here and there, will be repaired and sewn into freedom pants. In this way, sustainability, body awareness and personal interests are interwoven in...

Workshop by the Kunst VHS – Who’s Wearing the Pants? Favourite trousers are loved as dearly as a living being. The end of a favourite pair of trousers' life is often a sad event. In this workshop, we will bring your favourite trousers back to life. As a first step, we will explore their life story by drawing them. The drawing forms the basis for making the individual life story grow three-dimensionally with needle and thread, using filling materials and recycled fabrics. In this way, a new...

Performance – Who’s Wearing the Pants? This evening will be a particularly colourful and diverse event. The Padma Dance Company and friends will perform various traditional dance styles from India and put on a small fashion show with different sari draping. If you have always wanted to know how to drape a pair of pants from sari fabric and how to tie a dhoti, then this evening is a must! Duration : 90 min. Free participation No registration required Meeting point : Hall...

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) ...

Botanical tour through the exhibition In this exhibition, we encounter living plants that are an integral part of our homes and gardens today - such as the geranium, the Ficus benjamina and the Usambara violet. We get to the bottom of their origins and shed light on the often overlooked connections between botany and colonialism. The focus ranges from historical plant hunters to current issues surrounding biopiracy and international agreements on the protection of biodiversity. Tour...

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...