Press releases 2023

When the NHM’s former Imperial Hall was reopened on 21 February 2023, the limelight was on the Earth as a dynamic planet. Open to visitors as of now, the new Geology Hall features an exhibition designed by the architectural firm Schuberth und Schuberth. It focuses on the structure and composition of the Earth as well as the beginning of the Anthropocene and illustrates that everything could have gone quite differently!

Hall 6 - the former "Kaisersaal" - is undergoing general renovation and will be open to the public in a new setting from 22 February 2023. The new permanent exhibition "The Earth. A Dynamic Planet" focuses on the structure of the Earth as well as the beginning of the Anthropocene and shows that everything could have turned out quite differently.
On Tuesday, 21 February 2023, at 10:30 a.m., the NHM Vienna invites you to a press conference on the occasion of the newly designed hall.

The Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM) and the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art are participating in a cooperation project initiated and organised by the House of European History (HEH) around the vast topic of producing, throwing away, reusing and preventing waste. Waste is perhaps the most visible and tangible aspect of the looming environmental crisis. The project seeks to make the untold history of waste visible in Europe and thus tell a story of social change.

A new scientific study at the NHM Vienna has found that cattle from the Mediterranean region came to areas in present-day Austria as early as the Iron Age, between 450 BCE and the end of the first century BCE. The study’s results supply the first genetic evidence of cattle mobility and cattle imports from southern regions, shedding new light on socio-economic population structures in the Iron Age.

In cooperation with several international and national cooperation partners, including the Austrian Customs Office, researchers of the NHM Vienna have developed a series of workshops and lectures for schoolchildren intended to raise awareness about wildlife crime and species protection. The first workshop was held on 27 January 2023 at the NHM Vienna.

At the 2022/23 turn of the year, Director General and CEO Dr Katrin Vohland has decided to take stock of her first two and a half years at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Together with CFO Mag. Markus Roboch she will also provide an outlook on the major structural and conceptual development and modernisation of the NHM Vienna in the next few years.