Summer of Sounds in Viennas MuseumsQuartier

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A celebration of sounds is taking place in Vienna’s cultural hub this summer. The capital’s MuseumsQuartier is hosting a breadth of events exploring sound, art and architecture in a summer-long festival “Summer of Sounds”. The event kicked off on June 5 with the opening of an exhibit at mumok “Josef Dabernig. Rock the Void”, plus […]

Thirteen artworks stolen from Linz gallery

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Thirteen pieces of artwork have been stolen from an exhibition in Linz. The artworks were lithographs by the artist Bernhard Gwiggner and had been done on folded paper, a medium called leporello. They were on show at the ICON-Galerie in Linz as part of the Dao ji jing exhibition where 701 pieces of work were […]

NHM reports visitors record

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More than half a million people visited the Vienna Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, NHM) last year, it has been announced.Officials at the museum, which is located in the city’s Innere Stadt district, said today (Fri) that 527,744 visitors were registered in 2010. They pointed out it was the first time in its history […]

‘Dr Death’ exhibits in Vienna

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The acclaimed “Körperwelten der Tiere” (Animals’ Body Worlds) exhibit by anatomist Gunther von Hagens has opened in Vienna.The exhibition, which will be on at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM, Museum of Natural History of Vienna) until 7 March of next year, gives a fantastic insight into the inner structures of animals’ bodies. It features 20 […]

Flopped Haider exhibit shuts after ‘negative propaganda’

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Organisers of an exhibition on late right-wing politician Jörg Haider have claimed “campaigning media” were to blame for the exhibit being a massive flop.Fewer than 11,000 people attended the exhibit in the Bergbaumuseum (Mining Museum) in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, since it opened in October 2009. Organisers and local politicians hoped it would draw 70,000.Curator Gerhard Finding […]