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,...

Out of the Box Moving Worlds 12 April to 18 September 2018 Out of the Box establishes a dialogue between people with transnational identities living in Vienna and museum objects. In this context, people of different backgrounds and with different stories comment objects of the Weltmuseum Wien from their very own perspective. © All images: Aleksandra Pawloff About the exhibition About the exhibition The exhibition Out of the Box adds personal accounts to the overall narration of the Weltmuseum...

Cultural Heritage - Your bequest lives on The magnitude of the collections is to a great extent due to the generosity of individuals who collected, and who bequeathed their treasures to the predecessors of the Weltmuseum Wien – the Imperial and Royal Court Museum of Natural History and later the Museum of Ethnology. In the past, patrons – amongst them the Habsburgs – with their generous financial contributions were often the first enable research expeditions and study trips which have so...

Artist Talk with Shannon Alonzo & Panel Discussion Which artists and artworks are most visible in the public sphere is often not a matter of merit, but rather a question of power. Artists who belong to historically privileged groups (white, cis, heterosexual, male, able-bodied and middle-class) still seem to occupy the majority of exhibition spaces and stages. When museums shine a light on the oeuvre of artists from the so-called “Global South”, such engagement appears only sporadically; the...

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,...

Give & Join The Weltmuseum Wien possesses internationally unique cultural treasures from all five continents. It is the most important Museum in the country dedicated to non-European culture, and reflects Austria's relationship with the world. We need financial support to realise our wide range of tasks. Volunteer project with the artist George Nuku © Felix Abrudan Membership Become a Member or Ambassador! Art needs art lovers and art lovers need art – it has always been that way. Our...

#MuseumFromHome #weltmuseumwien Follow us on Facebook and Instagram , where we will keep you up to date. Digital guided tours Digital guided tours Weltmuseum Wien Insights What is actually on display at the Weltmuseum Wien? Accompany our cultural mediators Stella Asiimwe and Muhammet Ali Bas on a journey through the collections on display. INSIGHT #1 - Weltmuseum Wien introduces itself INSIGHT #3 - South Seas. Where do the deceased belong to? INSIGHT #5 - Into a New World: We still exist....

A Little Bit of Everything 24 April to 22 September 2024 A special feature of the collections in the Weltmuseum Wien is their great variety of materials. Recognizing them is sometimes child's play: a boat is made of wood, a plate of ceramic. Other materials, however, must first be examined under a microscope or with chemical analyses. Is a piece of jewelry really made of gold or brass? Is a piece of clothing made of sheep's wool or synthetic fiber? The collections of the Weltmuseum Wien house...

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...

Re:Present Unlearning Racism 8 August 2021 to 1 March 2022 Re:Present is an exhibition project of the Calle Libre Street Art Festival in cooperation with Weltmuseum Wien. Activists and artists - among others from the street art scene - take an artistic stance on topics such as racism, colonialism and representations of oneself and others in the imperial spaces of the Weltmuseum Wien. About the exhibition About the exhibition Re:Present is the theme of the Calle Libre Street Art Festival 2021....

Whatever You Throw at the Sea... Zara Julius 27 April 2023 to 2 April 2024 Whatever You Throw at the Sea… is a research-derived audio-visual project by Johannesburg-based artist and researcher Zara Julius. Having critically engaged the collections of the Weltmuseum Wien and those of the Phonogrammarchiv at ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences) during a research residency in the summer of 2022, the project eventually culminates in an installation at Weltmuseum Wien in April 2023. Zara Julius’s work...

Your Donation helps! The Weltmuseum Wien possesses internationally unique cultural treasures from all five continents. It is the most important Museum in the country dedicated to non-European culture, and it reflects Austria’s relationship with the world. For doing the costly renovations and conservation measures for the precious objects, as well as conducting research in connection with the new exhibits and other culturally diverse events, we require your additional help. There will also be a...

Informal Exchange with REFLEKTOR & Curator Hanin Hannouch Photography has never been a medium reserved solely for White, cis-hetero men from the Global North. Likewise, photobooks serve as both artistic and critical instruments – a medium that, despite Eurocentric publishing strategies, is also utilised by practitioners outside Europe and the USA. Since 2023, the library of the Weltmuseum Wien has been collecting selected photobooks to archive global artistic production and make these works...

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A Glance at Pants 15 October 2024 to 26 January 2025 From October 2024, our participatory ideas lab zam will put the spotlight on one piece of attire that everyone knows intimately, yet which is usually overshadowed by other items of clothing. Children's leather trousers, Dakota (USA), late 19th century, suede, glass beads, Weltmuseum Wien © KHM-Museumsverband The Participatory Space About the exhibition About the exhibition Pants from the collections of the Weltmuseum Wien will be juxtaposed...

Workshop by the Kunst VHS – Who’s Wearing the Pants? With the darning foot of the sewing machine and some fleece, you can repair unwanted holes in trousers so that you can enjoy them for years to come. Course instructor: Viktoria Demiray , graduate designer with training at the Spengergasse Textile College, works as a freelance jewellery and textile designer in Vienna. After the workshop, there will be an opportunity to visit the exhibition Who’s Wearing the Pants? ...

Workshop by the Kunst VHS – Who’s Wearing the Pants? If we drive our arms into the trouser legs, we have sleeves and part of the back is covered. The rest of our shirt is sewn on from other parts of our trousers. Course instructor: Nabila Irshaid studied Visual Communication at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In 2019, she realised ‘Jeanskamel – Space for Community Based Art’ in Hernals. Numerous exhibition participations and workshops. After the workshop, there will be an...

Digital Benin The Digital Benin project has set itself the task of digitally consolditating the historical royal art treasures from the Kingdom of Benin. Two court figures with dwarfism, Inv. No. 64.743, 64.745 Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria 14th/15th century © KHM-Museumsverband, Weltmuseum Wien About the project In October 2020, a five-member project team consisting of Prof. Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona, Dr Felicity Bodenstein, Dr Jonathan Fine, Dr Anne Luther, and Prof. Dr Barbara Plankensteiner...