Show site Construction site The tender process in retrospect 24 February to 16 October 2014 The redesign and restructuring of the Weltmuseum Wien was put out for tender in the course of an international, multi-level bidding process. This small but mighty presentation revealed the initial drafts and designs, the winning project, and many other aspects.

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...

JUMP!STAR Simmering JUMP!STAR Simmering, a process-oriented artistic project organised by the Brunnenpassage cultural centre and the Weltmuseum Wien was originally scheduled to take place in the Viennese district of Simmering but was ultimately held online with a virtual format because of the social distancing measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. © George Ferrandi About the project About the project The artistic point of departure for JUMP!STAR is the barely known fact that in 1,000 years from...

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...

South Sudan Museums Network Connecting the arts and heritage of South Sudan in European museums As part of an international network of European museums, experts and representatives from South Sudan and the Weltmuseum Wien are making tangible steps towards a major programme of research and exploration based on South Sudanese museum collections. Pair of figures, Unknown Bari master, South Sudan, before 1882, Gift by Martin Hansal, Imperial and Royal Consul in Khartoum The Weltmuseum Wien has been...

Franz is here! Franz Ferdinand’s journey around the world 9 April to 2 November 2014 “Franz is here!” was the headline of an American newspaper article referring to the visit of Archduke Franz Ferdinand during his world trip 1892/93. Now, 100 years after his death in Sarajevo, Franz Ferdinand visited the Weltmuseum Wien. The presentation offered unexpected insights into the world of this many-facetted and polarising figure. June 28 th 2014 marks the centenary of the assassination of the heir...

Beyond the Future Modern japanese Calligraphy 30 March 2023 to 9 January 2024 On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the calligraphy group Keiseikai in 2020, artists planned a memorial exhibition under the motto ‘Japanese calligraphers dedicated to Vienna’, which had to be postponed due to Covid-19. The artists paid tribute to Austria’s generous support in 2011, when eastern Japan was hit by a major earthquake that caused the nuclear disaster of Fukushima. Himmel über dem Turm zu Babel,...

SUPERFLUX. Ethnographies of the Craftocene The major spring exhibition 2026 Ethnographies of the Craftocene (from 4 March) presents works by the internationally acclaimed and award-winning London studio SUPERFLUX, one of the most influential players in the field of speculative design. The exhibition will be the central event of the second edition of the Vienna Climate Biennale 2026 . Information Kontakt Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Lamprecht (Leitung) T +43 1 525 24 4021 Mag. Sarah Aistleitner T +43 1 525...

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...

SUPERFLUX Ethnographies of the Craftocene 3 March to 16 August 2026 The solo exhibition The Craftocene by SUPERFLUX unfolds across three rooms, bringing together three major works for the first time: the multispecies banquet Refuge for Resurgence (2021), ongoing explorations into river intelligence Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream (2025), and a new commission created for Weltmuseum Wien, Relics of Abundance (2026). Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream © Superflux About the exhibition About the Exhibition...

Insights into Japan-related Overseas Artefacts and Documents from the 19th century in Europe Research and Use This research project, initiated by Japan, is devoted to the scientific reappraisal of the Heinrich von Siebolds (1852–1908) Collection in the Weltmuseum Wien. So far, approximately 5,400 objects from the areas of art and everyday life have been made accessible since 2016 in publications, exhibitions and databases. About the project About the project The project Insights into...