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...

Metamorphosis. Brazil 1998 Photography by Andrea Altemüller 5 December 2019 to 6 September 2020 The Brazilian rainforest is a contested cultural landscape, today more than ever. In 1998, the German photographer Andrea Altemüller travelled to Brazil, where she met people who transform raw materials from the rain forest in huge variety of ways and turned this into the two photo series Earth from my river and Deforestation of the rainforest. The exhibition Metamorphosis. Brazil 1998 is the first...

Participation in the Benin Dialogue Already in 2002, the intensive preparations for the exhibition Benin – Kings and Rituals. Court Arts from Nigeria , shown 2007 in Vienna, laid the foundations for the collaboration with the National Commission for Museums and Monuments Nigeria ( NCMM ). Pair of Busts: Oba (King) and Queen, Edo, Nigeria, 2006 In 2010, the NCCM, together with the Weltmuseum Wien, initiated an open dialogue to examine new joint perspectives on the difficult heritage of the...

Inclusive offerings On one Tuesday every month, we offer an inclusive tour, alternating between a tactile tour for visually impaired and blind visitors and their companions and a tour with sign language interpretation (ÖGS/D) for deaf and hearing-impaired people. On one Thursday every month, we hold a workshop called “Es geht um die Welt“ (It’s about the world) for people with disabilities and their companions. If you do not belong to one of these groups of people, but still want to get to know...

Opening of the Exhibition We would like to invite you to the opening of our new special exhibition Colonialism on the Window Sill! This exhibition shines a spotlight on ten plants that have been favourites of European living rooms and balconies for centuries, though their natural habitats are outside the continent. These plants share a history with our ethnographic collections; some of them joined the objects on long naval voyages to reach Europe and the museums. Beyond the demand...

Fun Lecture with Abigail Susik (English lecture) – Who’s Wearing the Pants? Creative women in France such as George Sand and Rosa Bonheur famously had to apply for permits to wear pants in public, but their demand for trousers went beyond mere practical needs. Sand, Bonheur, and other women in France and beyond helped popularize the striking visual culture of women in pantalons , which soon became a fashion and media trend in Western Europe, the United Kingdom, and the USA. This...

Veiled, Unveiled! The Headscarf 18 October 2018 to 26 February 2019 Just a piece of cloth but laden with countless facets of meaning is causing a stir: the headscarf used by devout women to cover their head, their face, and occasionally their whole body. The religious duty of women to cover their head has been part of European culture for centuries, though. Its story begins with early Christianity and has remained a vibrant issue to this day. About the exhibition About the exhibition In the...

The feather headdress Introduction The famous quetzal feather headdress in the Weltmuseum Wien is the last of its kind. It is therefore of particular significance as world cultural heritage. It remains unclear exactly how and when it left Mexico. Here you can find answers to some of your questions about it and its history. Quetzalfeather-headdress, Mexico, Aztec, early 16th century © KHM-Museumsverband Información en español Provenance and History Provenance and History Before the early 16th...

Dark Pairing Since 20 May 2021 The postcolonial view is the view of empathy and the desire to understand; (…) The postcolonial view recognizes and recognizes hybrid cultures and identities. - Paul Michael Lützeler © Wie-yi T. Lauw About the exhibition About the exhibition This recognition of the hybrid as well as the development of colonial cultures and history is the theme of T. Lauw in Dark Pairing by interweaving plants in a fine-meshed network. Images of cultural inscription and overlay...

Now you see me Moria 3 May 2021 to 31 March 2022 The current situation in Afghanistan The Weltmuseum Wien is dedicated to fostering respect for the diversity of human experience. The museum's staff therefore stands in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan in their diversity. The current situation is difficult for us to assess. But war and conflict lead to the displacement of people who must flee their own homes. We appeal to the countries of the world, including Austria, to take all measures...

Nepal Art Now Contemporary Nepalese Art 11 April to 24 November 2019 Weltmuseum Wien presents the most extensive exhibition of modern and contemporary art from Nepal to date. The works on display range from outstanding representatives of the 1950s through to today’s nascent scene of vibrant new artists. As well contributing to an effective resituating of the West’s status within an international context, these works also offer insights into how the local, the national and the global interplay. ...

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...

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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?...

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...

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...