Good Collecting – Bad Collecting. 150 Years of the Natural History Museum Vienna

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• The Typus Bar

  Look for a sleek bar wall of bottles: up close they are snakes and lizards preserved in alcohol, the type specimens scientists use to define a species.

• The spittoon and the handprint

  One of the 160 spittoons that once stood in the halls is paired with the preserved handprint of an activist who glued herself down in the dinosaur hall in 2022.

• The larder beetle case

  A case of live larder beetles works its way through a large piece of anaconda meat, showing what pests can do to a collection.

• The Habsburg arcade game

  A pixel-style shooter takes aim at Franz Ferdinand, who killed more than 274,000 animals in his lifetime; Harzhauser says it is meant to make adults uneasy.

• The Venus of Willendorf, reinterpreted

  A large new version of the figure shows her other lives beyond fame: a template for vibrators and sweets, and an icon of body positivity.

Ideal para

• Visitas de noche
• Entendidos
• Adolescentes

Mejor evitar si

You'd rather not see human remains: an original 30,000-year-old Homo sapiens skull is on show.

Con niños

Kids get an arcade game, live beetles and a room of 3D animations, but the show also covers Nazi-era finds and displays an original human skull.