Guided Tour Our education team will guide you through the special exhibition The European Qur ʾ ān Tour in German. Tickets: Participation in the event : € 6 No museum ticket required. Meeting point : Hall of Columns Kolonialismus am Fensterbrett Führung

Guided Tour in German In this overview tour you will learn more about the history of the Weltmuseum Wien and the concepts of the individual rooms by looking at the most important objects. Tour in German language. Tickets: Participation fee : € 6 plus museum admission . Meeting place : Hall of Columns Schausammlung Führung

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...

Pop-Up World Narratives 25 October 2017 to 26 August 2018 The reopening of the Weltmuseum Wien is accompanied by an innovative book about the Museum. The exhibition Pop-Up World: Narratives turns part of this book into a real-life experience. Sets of several objects are arranged into individual narratives. The range of themes stretches from traditional ethnography to art history, from historical backgrounds of object acquisitions to the beliefs of various world religions, and from collectors and...

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...

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...

Workshop for Children (3 – 6 years) In this exhibition, you can see the results of a large-scale project carried out in 30 villages in Mexico. The artist Carlos Barrera Reyes worked with many women there. Together, they rediscovered old dyeing techniques and developed new ideas. Using special weaving devices that are tied around the waist, they wove colourful fabrics. These are used to sew huipiles – traditional dresses worn by many women in Mexico. In our workshop, you will learn how to spin...

Keynote speeches and panel discussion with Mayke Wagner, Karina Grömer, and Bettina Zorn The special exhibition Who's Wearing the Pants? displays a replica of the earliest pair of pants ever found in a verified archaeological context. Named after the site where it was found, Turfan, in the desert region of western China, we refer to it as the “Turfan Man.” The experts highlight the Central Asian cultural area from the Bronze Age to the turn of the millennium and present well-known and...

Oceans. Collections. Reflections. George Nuku 23 June 2022 to 31 January 2023 The Weltmuseum Wien presents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the artist George Nuku, his first show in Austria. The installation project, entitled Oceans. Collections. Reflections. extends over seven rooms in the museum’s main galleries. Each room deals with different themes, which all revolve around relationships and change. An installation about the Corona pandemic can be seen in the Hall of Columns of...

The Culture of the Cultural Revolution Personality Cult and Political Design in Mao’s China 18 February to 21 November 2011 Everyday objects and the many different forms of political propaganda from the decade between 1966 and 1976 formed the focus of this exhibition curated by Helmut Opletal, a former journalist of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and renowned expert on China. It as a period marked by mass rallies, the Red Guards, and an almost religious personality cult as well as the...

The example of the Naga people of northeast India The Naga are a mountain people living at the foot of the Himalayas who, after the British colonial era, are increasingly searching for their identity and reviving their traditional culture. At so-called “cultural events,” jewelry based on ancient designs is worn. The traditional form has been preserved, but the materials used are modern. In this lecture, Christian Schicklgruber introduces the Naga and their history and explains why the...

Science & Research at the Weltmuseum Wien Here you can learn about the current research in our museum. Contact Here you can find our curatorial staff. Research projects Research projects at the Weltmuseum Wien Current projects Human remains in the collections of the Weltmuseum Wien Human remains in the collections of the Weltmuseum Wien The collections of the Weltmuseum Wien also contain human remains. These include mummies, so-called “ancestor heads”, objects in which human remains (bones,...