Spectacular images that show how a park becomes a lake each spring complete with underwater trees have been captured by two divers. The snaps were taken at the Gruener See, or Green Lake as it is called in English, located in the southern Austrian province of Styria. During the winter months the lake, located near […]
A unique exhibition in the Austrian capital Vienna has proved a massive hit after bringing together for the first time some of the most famous frozen woolly mammoth remains. The exhibition called “Mammoths. Ice Mummies from Siberia” which opened this week at the Natural History Museum in Vienna includes two mummified baby mammoths “Khroma” and […]
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 […]
Just in time for the New Year break a new exhibition chronicling the age of the dinosaurs has opened in the former St Marx slaughterhouse. The travelling exhibition includes dinosaurs recreated in real size and it is now on show in the Austrian capital as part of a European tour. And those who don’t get […]
A museum has covered up hundreds of huge posters showing three naked footballers advertising an exhibition celebrating nude men in art. The full frontal poster – showing an image called Vive La France by artists Pierre & Gilles – sparked hundreds of complaints in Vienna, Austria. One angry local threatened to paint over the model’s […]
By Fidan Aliyeva An exhibition devoted to Saint Serafim Viritskiy was held last week in the Russian Cultural Centre at Brahmsplatz 8. The exhibition was organised with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Management of Moscow Patriarchate of Foreign Institutions and Saint-Troitska Alexander-Nevski lavra with the blessings of Archbishop […]
A museum dedicated to the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger will open this weekend, it has been reported. Styrian newspapers disclosed today (Weds) that the exhibition – set in the house in Thal near Graz where the former politician was born – would focus on three stages of Schwarzenegger’s life. Visitors will learn more about the […]
More than seven in 10 visitors of Vienna’s Leopold Museum have rated the institution with the highest grade in recent research. Around 1,000 visitors were interviewed as part of a study by market analyst Sensor. Seventy-two per cent of people who attended the Leopold Museum said they found it “excellent,” the institution’s managers announced today […]
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 citys 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 […]
An exhibition on the work of artist Susi Weigel will open at the Womens Museum in Hittisau, Vorarlberg on 13 May, it was announced today (Fri).Weigel, who died in 1990, produced a vast amount of childrens literature, including the classic “Das kleine Ich bin Ich” (The small me is me) in 1972. The exhibition will […]