Climate protection - species protection - human protection? Weltmuseum Wien invites you to theme days

From September 26 to October 10, the Weltmuseum Wien is offering a diverse program on the topics of biodiversity, climate protection and sustainability.

The ongoing climate crisis and its effects are bringing questions and fears about the future of our planet to the forefront of public discourse. With its participatory space, the Weltmuseum Wien aims to zam to give visitors the opportunity to address, work on and shape the current and relevant issues of our time together.

Here, visitors are invited to actively participate in the museum and take part in a variety of workshop programs. zam offers opportunities to explore topics in greater depth and small-scale events.

A rich program

Workshops, interactive guided tours and artistic interventions were put together for the theme days.

In the Viel-Falt workshop, for example, visitors can become part of an art project by Tom Poe from Artists for Future. Together with the Origami for All association, animal species threatened with extinction will be folded and become part of an art installation from October 7 as part of the exhibition Extinct?.

During the ORF Long Night of Museums on October 7, visitors can look forward to Tom Poe's climate time machine, which was originally developed for the launch event of the Artists for Future "Es brennt!" campaign. It can now be seen as a transportable version at the Weltmuseum Wien, as can Lilly Panholzer and Carmen Fetz's wake-up machine.

In this artistic installation, people stand on a vibrating plate and listen to a text on the climate crisis through headphones - to be "shaken up". On this evening, artist Käthe Löffelmann creates a positive vision of the future in a four-hour live painting on a gray canvas.

"Why are you committed to climate protection?"

The Weltmuseum Wien asked this question to people who are involved in civil society for a future worth living and climate protection. Their answers can soon be seen in the form of quotes on the walls of the exhibition Extinct! exhibition. Since February this year, the special exhibition has been questioning common narratives of extinction and telling them from different perspectives.

From September 26, new showcases in the exhibition will be dedicated to topics such as the (over)vitality of water and the illegal logging and trade in ebony.

More information on the individual program items can be found in the Weltmuseum Wien calendar.