The Museum Magazine 2017

THE MUSEUM MAGAZINE 2017 Be bold. Open me.

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Welcome – welcome to the Museum Magazine for 2017!

Just walk into the small universe created more than 200 years ago by Archduke Johann. The authors Vera Bachernegg and Katharina Maria Zimmermann have gone ahead to taste what’s on the menu as it were, collecting many stories in the meantime. To produce this jolly compendium, every nook and cranny in the museums was explored, right down to the storage area.

Unflinching in their questions, reflections and insights, the writers help shed light on the unfathomable.

Those who believe in it can look forward to many interpretations of religion, by the way.

In the spotlight this year:

Key to museum education is to have communication skills, mastery of foreign languages, a great deal of empathy, and expertise, above all. If you then feel able to identify with the mission to instruct, and see the Joanneum as an institution for the broader population, then all is set for educational work in the spirit of the museum.

Explain the world of the Joanneum to me, please!

E D U C AT I O N

The educators of today are the museum guides of yesterday. While the term has changed, the task has remained a considerable one, and includes the writing of accompanying booklets, for example. So in this magazine, 2017 is also the year of education, it could be said.

So let’s have an end to the frequently-heard question, ‘And what do you really do for a living?’ Maybe examples can help to show all that this job entails.

Some classic examples: O v er v ie w to urs at v ar io us lo ca ti on s

r a n d to u rs fo Wor ks h op s a ge of from 5 ye a rs yo u n g fo lk on s. a t a ll lo ca ti

io n s ec ia l ex h ib it Tou rs of sp A re o h ‘W B ed ’, su ch a s ‘I n p er ts’, X E ‘S ’, Wol f You ?’ , ‘T h e ’ d th e Wor ld or ‘G od a n

T he ro se to ur s an d th e to ur th ro ug h th e st at e ro om s in S ch lo ss E gg en be rg

Our mott o, ‘A muse um for ever yone ’ mean s all our muse ums have barr ier-f ree acces s.

y d i s pl a h the g u ry o o r t our th he new His The t t n i oom m s t o re r Museu

en t urs on pe rm an A ra ng e of to t os m e th h it ex hi bi ti on s w as ch su ts in po v ar ie d fo ca l e C ha ri ot ’ in th eg tw et tr S ‘T he on M us eu m or A rc ha eo lo gy ry ul tu ra l H is to C N at ural an d ls fe ut en in S ch lo ss Tra

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The education offerings are so great, this magazine so small. So what follows can be seen as a brief introduction. Good advice can always be found at the calendar of the Universalmuseum Joanneum website:

www.museum-joanneum.at/ calendar

Here you can actively get involved, for in the summer-, winter- and 1-2-3 studio (one theme, two hours of time, at least three children), various materials are ready for trying out.

These are in part tailored to the exhibitions and can contain anything from linocuts to the production of paints.

– Neue Galerie Graz Studio:

Picture journeys: The educators select such focal points as the ‘Woman in Art’ or ‘The Child in Art’ and show what can be found on these topics in the museum objects from the Middle Ages and the Modern Period.

– Alte Galerie

Really stories this time, over coffee and cake, not as exhibitions. We can all become keen narrators and careful listeners here.

Stor y Café:

The related art enthusiast is called Filter Café and can be found in the Neue Galerie (with filter coffee

and biscuits, please note) – Folk Life Museum – Neue Galerie Graz One morning every month is reserved for treating the most various subjects in a playful way.

It may be the life of a wolf family that is examined.

Or it may be, why do birds lay eggs?

– Hunting Museum Club of scamps:

KoOgle: Hello, youngsters!

KoOgle offers you the chance to try out a poetry slam, capoeira, life as a DJ or even Street Art and cooking. Workshops with artists from Graz, you see.

– Kunsthaus Graz Coin Cabinet: Mint coins yourself, design wallets or make medals – all possible in the Coin Cabinet, where the hands-on approach is what we love!

– Coin Cabinet

t's all happening on Open Day in August: guided tours by curators, workshops, and a varied children’s programme. All the educators will be present, and grounds of the castle are on show in all their splendour.

Open house, you see!

– Schloss Eggenberg Open House:

E D U C AT I O N

Examples of education:

Nature as the setting:

Experts pay a visit, or experiments are carried out.

The issues are varied, with recent themes including the dying out of bees or migratory birds. In 2017 climate change takes centre stage.

– Natural History Museum

with textiles in art. Cooperation partners drawn from the whole city will take part in order to declare war on the digital inanity of our time, by means of ‘working with our hands’.

– Kunsthaus Graz Workshops (on such topics as peaceful interaction in the classroom), readings and talks held on the themes of war and peace.

– Styrian Armoury – Folk Life Museum – History Museum World Peace Day:

E D U C AT I O N

For young and old:

A series of museums are fully tailored to the family: The attentive participant can find out here how a violin is built, what soldiers used to eat, or how to handmake favourite toys and necklaces.

– Styrian Armoury – Folk Life Museum – History Museum – Hunting Museum + Agriculture Museum Myster y tours: Kids will laugh and have fun puzzling their way around.

All the info sheets they need can be found in the Info Pavilion, or downloaded online in advance.

– Austrian Sculpture Park EMIL the Castle Ghost:

This friendly castle spook accompanies young visitors mainly, asking questions at the same time about architecture and the Landscape Museum. EMIL also offers answers, thank goodness!

– Schloss Trautenfels This new format is concerned

Stroke and thread:

Special tip:

The bonus programme for holders of the Joanneum Pass.

This gives you the chance of going on exclusive tours, and accessing those corners of the Joanneum that are not normally part of day to day operations. www.joanneumskarte.at

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Education Interviews Joanneum Quarter Kunsthaus Graz Styrian Armoury History Museum Folk Life Museum Schloss Eggenberg Archaeology + Flavia Solva Austrian Sculpture Park Schloss Stainz Schloss Trautenfels Rosegger Museums Special Exhibitions Info Page 2

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COLOPHON Publisher Universalmuseum Joanneum GmbH, Mariahilferstraße 2-4, 8020 Graz Implementation and Texts Eat Write Live OG, Katharina M. Zimmermann, Vera Bachernegg, www.eatwritelive.com Graphic Design and Illustration Kristina Bartošová www.kristinabartosova.com Translation Andrew Horsfield Photo Katharina

M. Zimmermann, Universalmuseum Joanneum / M. Kanižaj p. 7 /D. Auner p. 8 / N. Lackner p. 8, 12, 24, 25, 37 / KiöR p. 9 / J. J. Kucek p. 19 / Studio Erwin Wurm, Word Sculpture, 2016, Bildrecht, Wien, 2017 p. 17 / Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, R. W. Nehrdich p. 27 / E. Hauber p. 28, 29 / Tom Lamm p. 38 / K. H. Wirnsberger p. 42 City Map ARGE Kartographie Joanneum Quarter Graphic Lichtwitz www.lichtwitz.com Printed by Druckerei Zimmermann www.zimmermann-druck.at

Three Questions for

CHRIST IAN BUCHMANN State Culture Counsellor of Styria

‘Innovation mass-produced’ is your personal credo. To what extent do you find that the Universalmuseum Joanneum turns this statement into reality?

CB: The Universalmuseum Joan-

neum lives out daily the motto established by Archduke Johann, ‘Innovation from tradition’, even 206 years after it was founded. This is true both for the varied offerings of the museum, as well as for its educational activities at a further twelve locations throughout Styria.

This mix of knowledge and awareness of our tradition creates new momentum for the dissemination of culture in the 21st century.

Can you remember your first encounter with the Universalmuseum (or with one of its museums)? What was that like? What has changed since, as you perceive it?

CB: As a youngster, time and again

I visited exhibitions in the most varied museums that at the time belonged to the Landesmuseum Joanneum as was.

My involvement of course intensified when I took over political responsibility for the City Cultural Office in 2003, the Capital of Culture Year for Graz. The same goes for my present position as

State Culture Counsellor that began in 2010. What I have always felt in this regard are the commitment and passion of those people working at the Universalmuseum. This is for sure the crucial reason for the museum’s successful development in recent years, alongside the varied programme on offer.

If Archduke Johann were alive in 2017, where would he probably be active? What would he most likely be doing?

CB: He would for sure be what

he was during his lifetime. A creative, lateral thinker, someone who would be continually working to advance Styria, and hence to increase the prosperity in our state. The spirit of Archduke Johann lives on today, too, ensuring that Styria is one of the most innovative regions in Europe.

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WM: I find it hard to decide. It

is like saying which of your children do you prefer. They are all precious in themselves, exactly because they are so heterogeneous and so address many themes. I am clearly most familiar with the Styrian Armoury, as I was able to work there as a student in the educational team.

WOLFGANG MUCHI TSCH Scientific Director of the Universalmuseum Joanneum What is your vision for where th e S t y r i an muse um landsc ap e should be moving towards?

WM: Museums will more and

more turn into forums of civil society as well as protected places where themes such as integration, culture or science are negotiated. Thus, expectations grow concerning museums as social locations, with ‘community building’ increasingly in focus. This year we have emphasised the repositioning of the museum in Palais Herberstein, and the Science Center. Changes are afoot in the Kunsthaus, too.

If you could meet Archduke Johann today, what would you ask him?

WM: Whether he is satisfied with

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the development of his museum and whether the path taken over the years has been in the spirit as he conceived it. We all endeavour to carry on in his spirit. He was a real man of action, yet also someone unwilling to hand over control to others. Nonetheless, what he said in the founding statute still applies to our museums, even today: to awaken curiosity and to excite intellectual inquisitiveness.

E XPERIENCE T HE JOANNEUM QUARTER The Institute for Art in Public Space Styria has hidden art all over the place, such as the Prismenwender by Michael Schuster. Can you find it?

On the faรงade of the Neue Galerie Graz the work Eternity by Thomas Baumann glows when you call it up.

Nestled in the heart of Graz is the Joanneum Quarter. Decorated in winter with stands, and in warmer weather a place that beckons you to linger and bask in the sun. Behind grey walls and glass funnels, all kinds of things are concealed.

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www.museum-joanneum.at/kioer

Ring up art for home delivery

For more ar t in public space, go to:

The Joanneum Quarter is a good starting point for engaging with the theme of ‘art in public space’. Many artworks we have seen already, albeit unconsciously, not properly taking them in.

Many others we do notice, yet fail to understand (as yet). And others again may need to be visited specially – the length and breadth of Styria. A map to help you find them is available on the accompanying website.

To pick up this common thread, you can start by directly dialling a number while standing in the Joanneum Quarter.

Whoever rings 0664 / 8017 9715 twice, gets to see a real Thomas Baumann. On the façade of the Neue Galerie Graz no less. More passively, you can get to enjoy a work by Joseph Kosuth in the Lesliehof; the artist has turned a thesis

by Johannes Kepler into a light design.

Like it? Then the best thing to do is to carry on following the thread through Styria – on the trail of art.

The urban space called Joanneumsviertel – whether winter or summer, a place to unwind.

you select the work you think you’ll enjoy. After the end of the exhibition, you can pick up this work fully packed, and place it in your home for eight months.

The ‘studio’: this space in the foyer of

the Joanneum Quarter is our location for young art, spontaneity and flexibility. The idea is to give young Austrian artists an uncomplicated platform to present their work. What’s more, the visitor gets a contemporary art experience for free, he just has to go down there. As the collection curator Günter Holler-Schuster puts it: ‘that studio down there, it should be alive.’

N EW A N D WO RT H Y OF NOTE The Styrian Artothek: That’s the name

for the opportunity given to private individuals to borrow artworks from the Neue Galerie collection! The Artothek!

And how does it work? It’s actually very simple: there’s an exhibition at which

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A glance at the Joanneum Quarter

1 Neue Galerie Graz

The collection with works from the 19th and 20th century 2 BRUSEUM On the life and work of Günter Brus

4 Styrian Provincial Librar y

Borrow books, take a guided tour, get to know Styrian cultural history

Barrier-free access Library of the Neue Galerie Really tracking down nature Graz C Café-Bar-Restaurant OHO! D Joanneum Quarter Square E Lesliehof with open-air cinema and Advent market

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Plex Noir has come up with an idea for our smartphone-driven society.

On the façade of the Neue Galerie there is an audiovisual installation that can be controlled by mobile phone. You can draw and play games – interactively.

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NEW IMAGES OF T HE ARCHDUKE

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In the Neue Galerie Graz you have the opportunity to discover the most varied genres of art from the 19th to the 21st century spread over several floors.

WHO ARE YOU? TWO CENTURIES O F P O RT R A I T S Duration 25 MAY 2017 � 3 SEP 2017 Donations are indispensable for museums. Thus, for example, a gift made

by Archduke Johann to the museum helped form the art collection in the 19th century. And a significant collection just recently donated to the museum led to our choosing 2017 as the year dedicated to the portrait. This multi-faceted theme encompasses self-depiction in all its colours, techniques and forms, ranging from portraits of rulers to today’s selfie.

Neue Galerie, provoking contemplation and reflection. Pictures of the Emperor on every mug, Pop Art, and also photographs of industrial magnates are just a few examples of many forms of media reality.

BRUSEUM A Museum for Günter Brus

In the BRUSEUM there’s a year-round exhibition area with key works of one of Austria’s most important artists of international renown: Günter Brus, a protagonist of Viennese Actionism, painter, illustrator and author. Changing exhibitions are dedicated to Brus or fellow artists who relate thematically to him.

The construction of the self

In times of Facebook profiles and Instagram accounts, self-representation is almost our daily fare. Andy Warhol’s assertion that ‘in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes’ is more topical than ever. The construction of the self will be the focal point at the

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An autumn guided tour through Victor Hugo’s drawings in the BRUSEUM.

N AT U R A L H I S T O RY M U S E U M

N AT U R E IN YOUR HANDS

The landscape really does rest well in the hand…

In the present special exhibition, everyone can create their own world… using ‘kinetic sand’.

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Joanneum Quar ter

A museum, the Naturparke Steiermark and ‘das Voyeur’ go into an exhibition. What’s the result?

‘Nature in Human Hands?’

Duration till 7 JAN 2018 Of course, it’s no joke, the exhibition that’s currently spreading throughout the Natural History Museum. It could be summed up rather as an experience, a total work of art or fairy-tale. At the spot where the coal mine usually stands, there is now a fountain, for example, from which resounds a fairy-tale specially written for the exhibition. One room on you can plunge into the neon-coloured reality of a toad; complete with skin and hair, you are then standing between over-dimensional grass stalks. A queasy feeling is the result.

Rarities

In the digital gallery of species, the family album of species is shown on 49 picture frames. This then carries on with one quiz after another, which quickly flesh out your own knowledge, or just show up where the gaps are for those wanting to be seen as experts in matters of nature. On the Schwarze Sulm you can go rafting (competitively) and the acknowledged highlight is the sandpit for grown-ups (and children). Here you

can shape or misshape the landscape with kinetic sand. Everything to be discovered was put together in cooperation with the Naturparke Steiermark and then given much individual design and street-wise art by the Graz agency, ‘das Voyeur’. That’s no joke either.

S E X P E RT S Duration 5 MAY 2017 � 7 JAN 2018 The exhibition of the same name is focused on procreation and all manner of strategies to drive forward evolution. Taking our lead from Cole Porter’s ‘Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it,’ we can watch various guest appearances by our exhibits in the Natural History Museum, too.

Small, but OHO!

Kickin’ off a cool weekend in the museum? Try Kaffee & Co in the OHO!

ALL BLOWN UP

The Kunsthaus Graz under its new head Barbara Steiner will certainly change in the next few years, noticeably so. Why? An update.

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The Word Sculpture by Erwin Wurm, 2016

KU N STHAU S GR A Z

The Kunsthaus Graz is by definition ‘an exhibition location of contemporary art, which shows global tendencies in regular, changing exhibitions, and which places these in both a regional and local context.’

So what can we expect in 2017 in matters of contemporary art?

The Kunsthaus means more than ‘just’ mounting exhibitions and so the conversion of its foyer will be part of the programme, too. In general, the Kunsthaus crew, and visitors too, will be dealing with daily routines quite a lot.

Such artists as Erwin Wurm are given space to raise questions. He comes up with commonplace examples and suddenly we see that – oh dear! – something completely different was meant!

Artists such as Wurm show us that dayto-day routine is not banal, but rather harbours much that matters.

Troublesome contemporaries

In the Kunsthaus Graz we want people to feel good. For contemporary art is not easy to digest at the best of times.

Barbara Steiner has also voiced her

thoughts on this, explaining: ‘In art history this is a constant theme: contemporaries have always made things difficult for their contemporaries. Artists as contemporaries are often troublesome.’

Good explanation

She places great store on open communication and passing on information.

She would like to make clear that there is no such thing as contemporary art per se. Contemporary art means that there certainly has to be disagreement over what is art and what is not. She would like to discuss questions such as ‘do we have to understand art?’ or ‘how is the Kunsthaus programme devised?’

A good development, and one we look forward to.

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Kunsthaus Graz

‘The Kunsthaus should communicate more with its surroundings again.’

So for this reason the foyer will have a completely different look, and the motto will be: pull down the walls and ‘open up to the outside’.

‘No more: Where on earth is the entrance?!’

The new head of the Kunsthaus Graz, Barbara Steiner

We have taken visitors’ feedback to heart and will now tackle such problems as how to mark the museum entrance.

‘The forecourt is actually depressing.’

Part of the concept of a spacious, welcoming building includes a forecourt, which in theory has the potential even to replace the cult ‘Weikhard Clock’ as a famous meeting point in Graz.

‘Chaos is an unavoidable part of the planning process. After all, it happens inevitably.’

After the ‘rearrangement’, measures must be taken to ensure that daily operations in the Kunsthaus continue to function smoothly. Whether it’s the way printed materials are received, or how goods are temporarily stored in the museum shop, everything will proceed much more systematically.

‘As for language, I want something friendly and simple.’

The printed exhibition guides are also not exempt from all the reconfiguration that will take place. The question is, and will remain: ‘Where am I communicating, in which way, and for whom?’ These thoughts have already led to such ideas as ‘leaflets for those in a hurry’.

Exciting developments then, and ever yone is more than welcome to par ticipate in this par t of the Kunsthaus programme for 2017.

ST Y R I A N A R M O U RY

A fantastic cultural memorial is staged in Herrengasse, Graz. The largest armoury in the world is unique, witness to many epochs in which war and peace alternately held sway over Central Europe.

D O V E S, N O T H AW K S What can we learn from this?

On the one hand, that the Turks of those times as described in historical sources do not necessarily have much in common with those of today. ‘The Ottoman Empire stretched over half of Europe as far as Bosnia and the remnants of the old military borders can still be seen today’, as Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen, head of the traditional museum, explains. A piece of regional history moulded over the centuries, very much a must-see location for many visitors,

and focused on the cause of promoting peace. Questions are asked, reflection is called for, on how each of us can contribute to living in peace together.

This programme is a particular hit with schoolchildren, and on International Day of Peace, September 21st, the goal is to heighten awareness, not to glorify a war-torn past. For this chosen day is a good opportunity for us all to think about the world we live in, and about peace, to discuss and listen to talks held on these important topics.

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St yr i an Armour y

‘It is its cultural significance that makes the Styrian Armoury so important, and the reason why exhibitions abroad continually request exhibits.’

— Thomas Storm

Three Questions for T H O M A S STORM

The horse armour is one of the prize pieces in the Styrian Armoury

Everything must be meticulously documented.

Head of the Restoration Workshop in the Styrian Armoury

Do you have a weakness for the late Middle Ages and the early modern period?

TS: I was always interested in this

time span. I can remember as a child already being interested in suits of armour. The Styrian Armoury just came along at a certain point in my life. But we are not only concerned here with the restoration, but also offer many services. Some dubious phone call or unexpected letter floats in on an almost daily basis. We try to answer both immediately and with our all our expertise.

St yr i an Armour y

Can one even estimate the value of what is contained in the Styrian Armoury?

TS: If we sit down with the auction

house catalogues and work out what exhibition pieces are to be found in the Armoury, we come up with a handsome sum. In that case the Armoury passes almost as a treasury. Yet it is its cultural significance that makes the Armoury so important and the reason why exhibitions abroad continually request exhibits.

You’re the one who accompanies suits of armour, swords and armaments on journeys. What needs to be taken in account when transferring valuable freight of this kind?

TS: That’s probably the most ex-

citing part of my job. Most recently I was in Finland at the ‘Heavy Metal’ exhibition, for which I sat in a truck for many hours. But I have also already

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A view of the storage depot in Lastenstrasse, Graz.

In rank and file – everything in its allotted place.

been stowed away in the hold of an aircraft in order to fly our pieces over the ocean without any damage. A journey of that kind requires much preparation and follow-up. It’s mostly to do with precise controls that are required for travel insurance purposes. For example, we demand a temperature report for the premises every fortnight, and only when this turns out to be stable do we allow our charges to move in. Ultimately everything must be packed meticulously, of course. We are talking here of perfectly temperature-controlled museum transport: a passion that generates suffering.

H I ST O RY M U S E U M

The wheel need not be reinvented, but perhaps some museums. This year it’s the History Museum (formerly known as the ‘Museum im Palais’) located in the heart of the UNESCO-protected Graz cityscape, that’s to be revamped.

‘HEL P YOURSEL F’ TO T HE BUFFE T OF HIS T ORY

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A tentative explanation follows.

To date the permanent exhibition highlighted those objects relating to the upper strata of society. Now there will be a reinterpretation. The glass display – a sort of Snow White’s coffin – that housed the exhibits is being removed, and in its place comes a kind of display of stored items.

The second floor of the Palais Herberstein is a bit like the Austrian dirndl: ‘show what you’ve got!’ As if on a silver salver, clothes, jewellery, burial crosses, chandeliers, clocks and the like jostle for attention. ‘There is no further narrative, this is a representative presentation of our collection.

Working with the educators, you can pull out several themes such as ‘women’, ‘life in Styria in the 18th century’, or ‘south Styria’, for example, and then the exhibits concerned will be explained by means of the common thread’, says Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen, who as head is one of the key people repositioning the museum.

teraction, have changed over the generations.’ And so the museum in Graz’s inner city has also been presented in such a way as to portray social shifts.

Open for the regions

In all of this, the Multimedia Collections (MMS) also play a major role. They contain photos, film rolls, tapes, and similar (analogue) material. But these media traces not only foreground the City of Graz or upper echelons of society. They also document the people of all regions of Styria and its development. For we need not travel far back in time to encounter a completely alien attitude towards relations between the genders, a child’s upbringing or notions of life after death.

This journey through time undertaken by the museum – rising from the ashes like a phoenix – spans the 12�� century to the present day.

Historical appetiser

The WYSIWYG* principle, like much else, is designed to lower our inhibitions and present cultural history in small bites, making it easier to digest.

‘I would like to mount an exhibition that manages to have no year dates at all,’ the museum director reveals, ‘for what matters is to understand how world images and thought processes, how concepts of power or human in-

‘By opening the new museum with the palace state rooms, we are also opening a ballroom of history.’

— Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen on the museum in Sackstraße

*What you see is what you get

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‘ O N E H A M M E R B L O W…’ 5 0 0 Y E A R S O F P R O T E S TA N T FAITH IN STYRIA Duration 15 JUN 2017 � 8 JAN 2018

eformation put in words

The power of the word

On paper strips the word as such takes centre stage. This exhibition will require some understanding of context:

Luther’s theses were affixed to the church door using hammer blows.

The Protestant faith is now 500 years old in Styria. An anniversary that could not be better celebrated than with an exhibition on this theme so heavy-laden with words.

That Luther’s posting of his theses would change so much and set off wars, persecution, slander and hate, was not immediately clear. The consequences triggered by the revolutionary actions of this man have already lasted 500 years. The Styrian Armoury was also dependent upon Protestant donors (to make just one reference among the various Joanneum institutions). Today we look back and note once again the sheer power of words. The exhibition concept also takes up this theme, using text in a direct and deliberate way.

‘The Reformation is a complex theme, not something we can just flick through. We have gone to great lengths, however, to prepare the background as clearly as possible.’

— Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen

But then afterwards some things are clearer, subjects that were perhaps lost in the blur of history. Comfortable shoes are also helpful, for the exhibition continues throughout Graz in the so-called ‘antenna system’. Locations such as the Paradeishof, the Stiegenkirche or the Landhaus were all important settings of the Reformation, and so are likewise utilised and played in.

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In 1872 Ferdinand Pauwels was also engaged with Luther’s posting of the theses

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What is a ‘land survey ’ in this context?

When a museum decides to scour the country and its people to find medial treasures in such forms as photos, films and the like, then wonderful things happen. Under the hay there may be 40,000 negative plates to be discovered, or photographs to be preserved from certain destruction in the form of mould and faulty storage.

As a result of this so-called ‘land survey’ the analogue photographic and audiovisual heritage was ferreted out.

Meanwhile the MMC have been stored in a perfectly climatized space in the Joanneum Quarter and – if they could think – would thank their lucky stars!

FAU T H P H OTO G R A P H S. A PHOTO STUDIO IN WEST STYRIA Duration 28 APR 2017 � 8 OCT 2017 Franz Fauth was a photographer in south-west Styria. The folks in Sulmtal had long been aware of this, though other Styrians were not. That’s all to change, as his photographs have been

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retrieved from a hayloft and reveal the history of a re gion from the very first motorbike, a range of club cele brations, through to visits by eminent persons.

STYRIAN NIG HTSCAPE. PHOTO EXPE DITION TO STYRIA BY N IGHT Duration 17 NOV 20 17 � 25 FEB 20 18 Night photography was and remains a great challenge. So why not gather together everything that the MMC have to offer and turn it into a powerful image of night lif e? Restaurants, ad hoarding, the redlight district – it’s all there.

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Eugen Hauber. right: Night Fog left: Cafè Stadtpark at Night, undated

FOLK LIFE MUSEUM

OFF TO BED!

Anyone who doesn’t repeat those words in 2017 has not really thought things through. For a special exhibition awaits them in the Folk Life Museum that is cleverly devised, its many wonderful exhibits making us mull over our own everyday life.

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Folk Life Museum

I N B E D. E P I S O D E S OF A REFUGE

Beds – where dreams are born

Duration 31 JUN 2017 � 31 DEC 2018 In 2017, the good old bed takes centre stage at the Folk Life Museum. The special exhibition with the appropriate title adopts 22 different approaches to this theme of mattresses, slatted frames and so on.

A bed for every phase of life

But, as we may imagine, it’s not just – or even mainly – about the piece of furniture. It’s much more to do with the setting. A bed symbolises refuge and protection. It’s the one place where we are often conceived and usually born, and the one place that shifts to centre stage at the end of our lives, when we pass away.

That’s my bed!

Which person belongs to which bed?

That’s the question put to the visitor, and through this playful game of ‘place the bed’ we can even recognise this item as a status symbol. What’s more, in the old days it wasn’t taken for granted that you had your own bed. Often the grandchildren had to slip into the grandparents’ bed to serve as a hot water bottle.

This and many other stories are brought to light in the exhibition. It will make you think more about things you take for granted, or barely notice.

This has been announced, and will take place… In the museum’s central courtyard, unaccompanied refugees will help build a bed. The theme taken is that of the bed as a place of refuge, and this topic is underpinned by a photographic project. In a very different vein, in the historical Trachtensaal (or Folk Costume Hall) an intervention on nightwear will take place. Moreover, the world’s most famous bed is on show – for real!

Stories of bed

In the ‘room of eroticism’, it’s all about closeness, about tenderness. Young and old can tell their own stories about beds, their voices anonymised by a special ‘whispering phone’ – only if they want to, of course. How to interpret dreams is also given space in the exhibition, and here too the visitor may happily join in – for example, by adding his contribution to a dream diary.

Episodes at an exhibition

Did my doll’s bed already lay down in advance how I would like to live today?

Whom do I sleep with in bed? Am I obsessed by sleeping well, because I know I cannot function well without a proper night’s sleep? These and many other questions are both useful and fun to get to grips with. So, off you go – shake out those feathers and visit the Folk Life Museum!

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State Rooms

Alte Galerie

The 24 State Rooms on the second floor are also known as the ‘Bel Étage’.

One of the rooms stands out in particular, the Planetary Room. The Bel Étage can only be visited as part of the regular tour; also, on selected evenings the doors of the State Rooms are opened at night, for then the popular tour by candlelight beckons.

The gallery on the first floor of the Schloss, together with the Neue Galerie Graz, forms one of the most significant art collections of its kind in Austria, alongside Vienna.

And not just for art history students, by the way! The period covered spans the Middle Ages to the late 18th century, with painting, sculpture and graphic arts all represented.

Park and gardens

There is much to learn about the park. The English landscape garden originates from Jérôme Count Herberstein, who took little pleasure in the strictly baroque-structured gardens, favouring instead the subsequent creation of ‘unconstrained’ nature.

SC H LO S S E G GEN BERG

FOR NEWC OMERS

An outing to Eggenberg means many things, for it’s hard to imagine the variety of what’s on offer.

Archaeolog y Museum

Coin Cabinet

If you ever wanted to look at a mummy close-up (including – no worries, it’s not visible – its contents) or felt intrigued by such questions as ‘can my essence be reproduced?’ or ‘do we need gods?’, you’re at the perfect place here.

A special treasure in the form of a coin collection arranged in modern style can be found on the palace’s ground floor, which tells us much about the time in which the coins were used. Particularly fascinating are the many sayings and other nuggets of knowledge linked to everyone’s favourite, money.

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S chloss Eg genberg

What do we need to know about the castle gardens?

MA: We should know that there

Five Questions for M A R I A AUER

Gardener in the Schlosspark What's so special about the Schloss Eggenberg gardens?

MA: What’s special is that we find

ourselves here in a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For not only the castle, but the gardens also belong to it. Moreover, these gardens are protected by the state. The concept of the English landscape garden is key, something connected with the ‘free thinking’ of Romanticism: it’s supposed to look as though everything had been created by nature.

What does it feel like to work in a World Heritage Site?

MA: You have to be extremely

careful.

are several diff erent gardens to visit here. For example, there are the so-called planet gardens. The former kitchen garden is the counterpart to the planet room in the castle and is laid out according to the seven classic planets. Then we restored the roses’ hill in 2007 and 2008. In earlier times it was something special to have roses, as they were very precious. Yes, and that is by no means everything: I’ll just mention the lord’s garden, the southern pavilion and the baroque fruit garden.

Where do you like to be most of all?

MA: I think that’s like asking me

which of my ten children I like best. I like to spend time in every part of the castle gardens.

There would surely be much more to say about the Eggenberg gardens – where can visitors get good information?

MA: We offer tours through the

castle park, to the planet gardens and special rose tours. And there are interesting books to buy.

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A LT E G A L E R I E

No other art gallery in Styria can hold the candle with the Alte Galerie when it comes to the theme of faith.

We truly have an embarrassment of riches to exhibit on this …

If one moves through the Alte Galerie, one soon discovers that every room has a different theme. The sacred art of the Middle Ages is broken up into such themes as ‘Maria’, ‘Christ’, or ‘the Saints’. Highlights tours and various guided tours (in German only) as part of the series ‘Bilderreisen’ take up even more fascinating themes, explaining the role of individual saints, or the meaning of animals in art, and so on.

Who can spot the two pictures in the hallowed rooms of the Alte Galerie that stand out in this year of 'faith'? The two pictures concerned are Giovanni Pietro de Pomis’ ‘Archduke Ferdinand as Counter-Reformer’ and Teodoro Ghisi’s ‘Symbolum Apostolorum’.

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The Dawn of a New Age

In the Modern Period the church loses its dominant position as patron of the arts. Secular and humanistic stories are now told.

Humanism!

Man becomes more aware of himself, artists come to the fore, and thus in these rooms of the Alte Galerie we see portraits, world landscapes, depictions of animals, heroes and strong women, earthly paradises and still lifes. Need we say any more? With its temporary installation on the Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation in Styria, the Alte Galerie is truly well prepared for the Joanneum’s special theme!

WE’VE GOT I T A N Y WAY !

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S chloss Eg genberg

Triptych with the Crucifixion, dated 1518, wings painted after Albrecht DĂźrer from St. Nikolaus in GroĂ&#x;reifling.

S chloss Eg genberg & Flavi a S olva

ARC HAE OLO GY MUSEUM Styria’s oldest memories

Since 2009 an Archaeology Museum has been located at Schloss Eggenberg.

This is intended to make us reflect – on mundane matters, too. And the star object among the exhibition pieces is quite clearly the ‘Strettweg Chariot’.

The Department of Archaeology and Coin Cabinet is highly active in various areas. On the one hand, it carries out research projects, while on the other it takes care of the Pre- and Early History collections of the Joanneum, as well as the Roman Provincial Collection and the objects of the Antiquities Cabinet, all in all covering a time span from 50,000 B.C. up to the Middle Ages. By the way, collecting has taken place since 1811, and this ‘Strettweg Chariot’ has been part of the collection since 1853.

The hear t of the collection:

The Strettweg Chariot

There’s a lid for every pot in the imperial crockery

The star

The chariot originates from the 7th century B.C. and was discovered by Ferdinand Pfeffer in Strettweg (near Judenburg) as he worked in a field. To begin with, his children still played with the figures, while today the exhibition piece is considered one of the most complex objects of Iron Age Europe with an insurance value of some 50 million Euros.

How times change! The arrangement of the figures and speculation about the chariot (which derives from a burial mound of the Hallstatt Period) is best explained by experts, for they are able to reveal some of the secrets surrounding this icon of Styria.

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S chloss Eg genberg & Flavi a S olva

So small yet bursting with stories!

COIN CABINET Memorable experiences

The second largest coin collection in Austria can be experienced directly by means of a ‘magnifying glass tour’.

Both Celtic, Roman and medieval coins, and those from the Modern Period, will make your jaw drop in the Coin Cabinet, tracked down with the magnifying glass and then explained on the screen.

So the two small words ‘modern’ and ‘informative’ join up on coins with elephants and information about money systems. All this helps make a visit to the museum a hot tip! And we don’t even get paid for telling you that.

Objects help us understand daily life in antiquity.

Faces made of limestone.

Excursion tip:

F L A V I A S O LV A The archaeological protective zone

The entertaining trip through time at the archaeological site of Flavia Solva in southern Styria is free of charge and the role of guide is taken over by a highly informative, navigable display screen.

We are transported back to the year 70 C.E., when Flavia Solva received the town charter under Emperor Vespasian.

Be amazed by the grounds covering 20,000 square metres as well as by the traces of life from this long-lost era.

Don’t forget to make a detour to Frauenberg near Leibnitz and visit Schloss Seggau!

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The Austrian Sculpture Park is provided with a lotus pond, constructed landscape gardening, and the charm of the Graz suburbs. Selected as one of the top ten sculpture parks in Europe by the Guardian newspaper, it is and remains one of the loveliest insider tips for visitors to Graz.

Did a giant lose a toy here? For sure we start to ask ourselves questions when watching giant red bubbles inflating themselves, or marvelling at a strangely constructed airplane. Then something quite special happens automatically, called deceleration. This dialogue between art and nature that takes place here in the Sculpture Park gives us pause for thought, as we register amazement. The pulse of life slows down. It’s all been set out by the Swiss architect Dieter Kienast, and then filled out by artists from around the world such as Fritz Wotruba, Franz West or Yoko Ono.

S C H LO S S S TA I N Z

WHO ’S AF R AID OF T HE BIG BAD WOLF?

Why does this animal polarise us so?

How long has the dog been man’s loyal companion?

Are there are any free-roaming wolf families in Austria right now? *The answers are to be found in the Hunting Museum Stainz until November 5�� 2017

Why do man, dog and wolf have a triangular relationship?

Does the wolf have healing powers?

S chloss Stainz

Are wolves benevolent creatures or do they spread havoc?

What does the U-Boot in the Second World War have to do with the wolf?

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Duration 1 APR 2017 � 5 NOV 2017

S chloss Stainz

From the hunter to the meadow

As so often in the Joanneum, we also stumble several times across the Archduke, without whom there would be no Universalmuseum named after him today. He was once the mayor of Stainz and his descendants still run the castle nowadays. His outdoor outfit is exhibited in the Hunting Museum, and his world-famous collection of model implements is the highlight of the Agriculture Museum.

HUNTING MUSEUM No collection of trophies

The trail through the largest hunting museum in Austria covers 2,500 square metres. This way we get to know our native wildlife better, and come to understand the hunter’s job. We can promise one thing straight off: this museum opens up the senses for future experience of nature, for we can properly hear, see and feel local wildlife. It could be feeling the soft hair of a squirrel, listening to a wood grouse during courtship, or observing a fox as it hunts down its prey. No stroll through the woods

will ever be the same again. Trophies and ‘antlers’ are also part of the exhibition, though the tangible experience is what counts, more than any trophy.

A G R I C U LT U R E M U S E U M Models in every sense

Of the total of more than 16,400 objects that the Agriculture Museum can call its property, decisions have to be made first as to what makes it to the exhibition space at all. Somehow, we drew on these plentiful resources, creating a monument to agriculture of the past, present and future. Visitors linger particularly at the model collection of agricultural implements, which amaze with their lavish details and versatility.

‘Of course we have a lot. What we don’t have, is space.’

— Karlheinz Wirnsberger

SC H LO S S TR AU TEN F ELS

Who am I? Where do I come from?

What do I believe in? Questions which everyone, young or old, has asked themselves at some point.

Answers can be found in the religions of the world. They lie before the visitor like an open book in the special exhibition held in Schloss Trautenfels. Here, in the shadow of the Grimming, we can surely tackle head-on the basic spiritual needs of mankind.

Duration 6 APR 2017 � 31 OCT 2017

IN T HE ENNSTAL GOD AND T HE WORL D A R E W H AT M AT T E R

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S chloss Trautenfels

Man has two legs and two convictions: one for when things are going well, and one for when things are going badly. The latter is called religion.

Trautenfels and the Ennstal were long a focal point of religions: Protestantism and Catholicism clashed here. The lords ruling the castle at the time – the Hoffmann family – were among the most influential patrons of the Protestant faith in Styria. And in the St. John’s Chapel in Pürgg (that’s the one with Styria’s oldest frescoes, where you can see the original version of ‘Tom and Jerry’ in the form of an ancient cat-and-mousestyle battle), an Arabic inscription can be found. And as faith is a basic human need, Schloss Trautenfels engages with it on each level, regional, national and international.

— Kur t Tucholsky, German Journalist & writer

What do we believe in?

Yet the focus is not on Protestantism, which existed in the Ennstal a long time ago; rather the concern is with the concepts and characteristics of the great religions of today. A theme that could not be more topical, nor more urgent. The exhibition ‘God and the World’ burrows to the roots of this issue, going back thousands of years to convey the genesis, meaning and evolution of the individual confessions of faith. As much space is given to such controversial questions as ‘how did religions actually come into being?’ or ‘how did mankind actually zoom in from a multitude of gods on to just one god?’, as to a practical comparison of the creation story with biological evolution.

Religion is a hard nut to crack – Martin Luther, who formulated his theses 500 years ago (watch out, anniversary due!) – knew that early on. The Schloss Trautenfels unlocks these mysteries in its expansive special exhibition, ‘God and the World’.

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Miracle made of wax

There was a small wax figure for almost every part of the body, which when sacrificed gave hope of rapid salvation.

Salt business

At the time, salt products looked a little different from those of today.

Layer upon layer

The Ennstal is exciting for the mountains surrounding it alone – the permanent exhibition offers the visitor greater insight.

Sightseeing -T ip:

Just 20 minutes’ walk in the direction of Grimming will lead you to the foundation walls of the Protestant church built in 1574 by the Hoffmann family.

Peter Rosegger was also very concerned with the theme of ‘faith’.

A keen participant on pilgrimages, he wrote extensively on many themes.You can learn all about this, and much more, in the museums on the Alpl and in Krieglach.

T H E FA I T H A N D T HINKING OF PE T ER ROSEGGER

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Made available from the Peter Rosegger Estate by the St yrian State L ibrar y

RO S E G G E R B I RT H P LAC E & ROSEGGER MUSEUM

Special Rosegger tip:

The forest school as well as hiking paths on the Alpl.

And the new gardens at the country house in Krieglach.

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The Birthplace

The collection curator from the Rosegger Museum in Krieglach describes it as follows: ‘Rosegger certainly gave thought to God and the world.’ This is very consistent with the theme of faith in the Joanneum year of 2017. The writer and folk poet was a practising Catholic during his lifetime, who also found favour in Protestantism.

He wrote down many religious thoughts in the monthly publication Heimgarten.

What we know is that he already undertook pilgrimages as a child. He undertook one with his father following a neartragic accident in the fields around Waldheimat. In gratitude for getting off so unscathed, the two made the well-known pilgrimage to Mariazell. Another pilgrimage led to Maria Schutz, and this trip is told in the story ‘When I first sat on the steam engine’:

The all-round Rosegger experience contains a visit to his bir thplace on the Alpl followed by a tour in the countr y house in nearby Krieglach.

Alpl atmosphere

‘Existence is delightful, one just needs to have the courage to lead one’s own life.’ … ‘My godfather, Jochem Knierutscher – may he rest in peace! – was a man who believed everything, just not what was natural. The little of the works of man that he could understand was of divine origin for him; the large amount that he could not understand was witchcraft and a devilish apparition … Thus Jochem considered dear God as a good-natured, simple old man (just as he, Jochem, himself was), while the devil was for him a cunning, subtle figure who cannot be negotiated with and who also tricks dear God left, right and centre. Apart from this high opinion of Lucifer, Beelzebub (whatever they may be called), my godfather was a clever man, however. I am grateful to him for some new linen shorts, and for indigestion.’

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In the anniversar y year of 2018, there will be much to say for sure, for it is both the 175th anniversar y of his bir th, and 100 years since his death. But we don’t mind… in 2017 there are already a few quotes to warm us up:

‘The atmosphere of external nature is always only a reflection of our mind.’

An impression of the country house at Krieglach

Hiking paths on the Alpl

‘Those who trust, experience miracles every day.’

‘No invention, no power in the world, has achieved what enthusiasm has.’

Norber tine Bresslern-Roth

Animal painter

Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

till 17 APR 17

Neue Galerie Graz

Landscape painting from Waldmüller to Thöny

Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

till 7 MAY 17

Neue Galerie Graz

The Production of Things till 7 MAY 17

Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

History Museum (formerly Museum im Palais)

Struggle and Passion

Japanese colour woodcuts 7 APR – 20 AUG 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz Yoshio Nakajima

Out of the picture

7 APR – 9 JUL 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz / BRUSEUM Light 2017 21 APR – 6 JUN 17

In public space in the city of Graz Collected Histor y

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS

Nature in Human Hands?

Implications and undesirable side-effects till 7 JAN 18 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Natural History Museum Dizziness

Open collections

from 28 APR 17 Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm History Museum (formerly Museum im Palais) The Fauth Photographs

Navigating the unknown 10 FEB – 21 MAY 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Kunsthaus Graz

A photo studio in west Styria 28 APR – 8 OKT 17 Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm History Museum (formerly Museum im Palais)

Erwin Wurm

Football-sized lump of clay on light blue car roof 24 MAR – 20 AUG 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Kunsthaus Graz David Reumüller

SEXper ts

Speedy bees, wonderful pikes 5 MAY 17 – 7 JAN 18 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Natural History Museum Who Are You?

Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz, studio

25 MAR – 14 MAY 17

Two centuries of portraits 25 MAY – 3 SEP 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz

The Wolf 1 APR – 5 NOV 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Hunting Museum, Schloss Stainz

Susanna Flock 2 JUN – 9 JUL 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz, studio

God and the World

What do we believe in?

6 APR – 31 OCT 17

Schloss Trautenfels

‘One Hammer Blow…’

daily 10 am � 5 pm

500 years of Protestant faith in Styria 15 JUN 17 – 8 JAN 18 Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm History Museum (formerly Museum im Palais)

Koki Tanaka

Up into the Unknown

Provisional studies (on-going ) 23 JUN – 27 AUG 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Kunsthaus Graz Haegue Yang

Kunsthaus Graz 23 SEP 17 – 25 MAR 18

Kunsthaus Graz

Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

Victor Hugo – Günter Brus

The VIP’s Union

23 JUN 17 – 2 APR 18 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

Kunsthaus Graz

6 OCT 17 – 14 JAN 18 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz / BRUSEUM Ar tothek Styria 2017

In Bed

Episodes of a refuge 30 JUN 17 – 31 DEC 18

Folk Life Museum

Wed-Sun 2 � 6 pm

Collected Histor y: Photo Film Sound

Open collections

studio übermorgen

Styrian Nightscape

Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

Ber tl & Adele

Two Graz children in the Holocaust from 15 SEP 17 Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm History Museum (formerly Museum im Palais)

Photo expedition to Styria by night 17 NOV 17 – 25 FEB 18 Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm History Museum (formerly Museum im Palais) Narrated Histor y

Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm from 17 NOV 17 History Museum (formerly Museum im Palais)

Veronika Eberhar t 16 SEP – 29 OCT 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz, studio steirischer herbst 2017

A production of steirischer herbst and the Neue Galerie Graz 23 SEP – 30 DEC 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz Graz Architecture

Rationalists, Aesthetes, Gut Instinct Architects, Democrats, Mediacrats 23 SEP 17 – 28 JAN 18 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Kunsthaus Graz

Ar t Space Styria 2017 8 DEC 17 – 4 FEB 18 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz, studio

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS

Museum as Toolbox

Kunsthaus Graz

Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm History Museum (formerly Museum im Palais) from 17 NOV 17

Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz, studio 14 JUL – 3 SEP 17

8 SEP – 15 OCT 17

3 NOV – 26 NOV 17 Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Neue Galerie Graz, studio

Making Of

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Schloss Stainz

Schlossplatz 1

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Schloss Trautenfels

Trautenfels 1

8510 Stainz

8951 Stainach-Pürgg

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Opening hours:

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Opening hours:

Tue-Sun, public holiday

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Guided tours on request

Jagdmuseum Hunting Museum

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Rosegger-Geburtshaus

MUSEUMS OF STYRIA

Rosegger Birthplace Landwirtschaftsmuseum

Alpl 42, 8671 Alpl

Agriculture Museum

T +43 3855 2375

landwirtschaftsmuseum-stainz.at

rosegger-geburtshaus.at Opening hours: 1 APR – 31 OCT 17

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Österreichischer Skulpturenpark

Austrian Sculpture Park Rosegger-Museum

Thalerhofstraße 85

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8141 Premstätten

Roseggerstraße 44

T +43 316 8017 9704

8670 Krieglach

skulpturenpark.at

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Opening hours:

rosegger-museum.at

1 APR – 31 OCT 17

Opening hours:

daily 10 am � 8 pm

1 APR – 31 OCT 17

Free admission

Tue-Sat 10 am � 4 pm Guided tours on request

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Flavia Solva

Marburgerstraße 111 8435 Wagna T +43 316 8017 9515

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Joanneum Quarter

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Landeszeughaus

Styrian Armour y

Schloss Eggenberg

(Entrance Kalchberggasse)

Herrengasse 16, 8010 Graz

8020 Graz

8010 Graz

T +43 316 8017 9810

T +43 316 8017 9560

T +43 316 8017 9100

landeszeughaus.at

welterbe-eggenberg.at

Opening hours:

Opening hours:

Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

1 APR – 31 OCT 17

Opening hours State

Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

Rooms: 1 APR – 31 OCT

Neue Galerie Graz

NOV – MAR 18 admission with

17

+ BRUSEUM

guided tour only

admission with guided

neuegaleriegraz.at bruseum.at Guided tours: Sat, Sun, public holiday 2 pm (GER) Sun 11 am (EN) and on

Guided tours:

Tue-Sun, public holiday 11 am, 2 pm (DE)

Guided tours:

1 pm (EN) and on request

Tue-Sun, public holiday

tour only

Tue-Sun, public holiday 10 am, 11 am,

12 am, 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm Opening hours Park:

request 4

MUSEUMS IN GRAZ

6

Eggenberger Allee 90

Volkskundemuseum

1 APR – 31 OCT 17

Naturkundemuseum

Folk Life Museum

daily 8 am � 7 pm

Natural History Museum

Paulustorgasse 11-13a

1 NOV 17 – 31 MAR 18

8010 Graz

daily 8 am � 5 pm

naturkunde.at Highlight Tour:

Sat, Sun,

public holiday 2:30 pm

T +43 316 8017 9810

volkskundemuseum-graz.at

2

Kunsthaus Graz

Opening hours:

Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

1 APR – 31 DEC 17

1 NOV – 31 DEC 17 admis-

Wed-Sun 2 pm � 6 pm Guided tours: Tue-Fri for

sion with guided tour on

Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz

groups on request outside

T +43 316 8017 9200

of opening hours

5

Museum für Geschichte

History Museum

Archaeolog y Museum

archaeologiemuseum.at

Sackstraße 16, 8010 Graz T +43 316 8017 9810

Münzkabinett

museumfuergeschichte.at

Coin Cabinett

Architecture tours on exhibition-free days:

Opening hours:

Tue-Sun, public holiday 11 am, 12 am, 2 pm ( Sun EN)

Wed-Sun 10 am � 5 pm

request

Alte Galerie

Archäologiemuseum

Opening hours:

and 3:30 pm (GER) and on

request only

altegalerie.at

kunsthausgraz.at

Tue-Sun 10 am � 5 pm Guided tours: Sat 3:30 pm Sun, public holiday 11 am (GER) Sun 2 pm (EN)

Opening hours Museums: 1 APR – 29 OCT 17

(DE+EN) and on request

Guided tours on request

muenzkabinett.at

It’s so bright and shiny …

… our Joanneum Pass. ‘The one and only card’ costs 30 euros and permits 12 months’ free entrance. In addition, you can book this or that package on top, so you can enjoy your visit to the museum as a couple, with your family, or just to take advantage of something extra on offer.

Stick it on – the competition!

This is for those of you who just can’t get enough of stickers, museums, and winning: start collecting, folks, for any visitor to one of our museums is given a sticker at every location . Just stick it onto our map of Graz and Styria in this magazine , and anyone who’s got all of

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them at the end of the year receives a loyalty present – a brand-new Joanneum Pass !

Location ticket Location ticket Folk Life Museum Location ticket Rosegger

Austrian Sculpture Park + Flavia Solva Joanneum's 24 hour Pass Joanneum's 48 hour Pass Joanneum Pass valid 12 months Guided tour not included in ticket price *

*unless otherwise indicated

9€ 7€ 4,50 € free 13 € 19 € 30 € 2,50 €

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Man and beast. Faith and art. Somewhere in between lies the focus of the Universalmuseum. In the case of the Joanneum the two authors Vera Bachernegg and Katharina Maria Zimmermann set off to unlock its secrets and stories. And in so doing they come across great people with even greater thoughts.

Like explorers of the modern museum landscape, they lead us through the various museum-related events of Styria, from Trautenfels to the Sculptural Park, from tranquil Krieglach all the way to the Joanneum Quarter with all its urban distractions. This hunt for clues just whets the appetite for more. And it makes an entertaining read, too!

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