Gutes Sammeln – Böses Sammeln

On 29 April 1876, Emperor Franz Joseph I signed the decree founding the Natural History Museum Vienna. The museum building on Vienna's Ringstraße, which was solemnly opened in 1889, came into being at that time. Today, the NHM Wien, with more than 30 million objects, is one of the most important natural science museums in the world. But how did this unique collection come about? And what stories lie behind 150 years of collecting, researching and discovering? The exhibition invites visitors to get to know the history of the museum and at the same time casts a critical eye on the dark sides of collecting.