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Kuratieren / Intendanzen / Leitungstätigkeiten |
| Titel der Ausst. / Veranstaltung: |
Things that talk - Vienna Art Week 2011 |
| Veranstaltende Einrichtung: |
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Wien (Österreich) |
| Funktion: |
Kuratieren |
| Beschreibung: |
THINGS THAT TALK - A SHOWCASE FROM THE FRIENDS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY CABINET ASSOCIATION ARCHIVES, A cooperation between the Museum of Natural History Vienna and the University of Applied Arts during Vienna Art Week 2011//
The items exhibited on the central staircase of the
Museum of Natural History Vienna have been selected
from the long-standing collection of the Friends of the
Natural History Cabinet Association. The initiator of
the first soirées in the mid-eighteenth century is said to
be the illustrious Emperor Franz I (Franz Stephan of
Lorraine) himself, whose private Natural History Cabinet
is considered to be the origin of the Museum of Natural
History. In pursuit of new scientific insights, the Emperor
gathered a circle of like-minded amateur collectors and
well-known experts, forming an association with the aim
to present and create a discussion around current research.
Members of the club started to collect objects that
were of special interest to their discussions. Over the
following decades, this compilation of items seems to have
grown more in peculiarity than in number, which is why it
has been suggested that parts of the collection have gone
lost. Also, rumour has it, in the years it has been stored and
almost forgotten in the cellar of the museum, some items
have been assumed part of the collection, which were not
previously included.
The social tradition of the Friends of the Natural
History Cabinet Association continues still today, with
current members holding regular meetings in the form of a
dinner at the museum each week.
For this current exhibition selected items from the
association’s collection were prepared for display by the
Art & Science class / University of Applied Arts Vienna
in collaboration with the Friends of the Natural History
Cabinet Association. |
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