On Tuesday, 20 January 2026, at 10.30 a.m.
Location: Lecture hall of the NHM Vienna, Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Vienna
 Entry: from 10 a.m., start: 10.30 a.m.
 
The following spoke:
 
Dr Katrin Vohland, Director General and Scientific Director of NHM Vienna
 Mag. Markus Roboch, Chief Financial Officer of NHM Vienna
 
as well as the curators on the concrete projects in 2026:
 
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mathias Harzhauser (Director of the Geological-Palaeontological Department)
 Dr. Swen Renner (Head of the Bird Collection)
 Eduard Winter (Kustos of the Pathological-anatomical Collection in the Narrenturm)
 Dr. Margit Berner (Director of the Anthropology Department)
 Mag. Agnes Mair (Department of Science Communication)
 
 
2026 is a special anniversary year for NHM Vienna. On 29 April 1876, 150 years ago, Emperor Franz Joseph I founded the Natural History Museum Vienna in the legal sense with his signature, on 30 April 1876 he appointed the geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter as his first director. At that time, the building of the museum on Vienna's Ringstraße was already under construction – in August 1889 it finally came to the ceremonial opening.
 
Today, with more than 30 million objects, the house houses one of the most important natural science collections in the world. The NHM Vienna is a unique archive for the origin and development of the earth and life. It documents the history and structure of our planet, shows the diversity of life on Earth and provides insight into human development. Like no other natural history museum, it explores the entire spectrum of nature in the past and present using biological, geological, paleontological, mineralogical, anthropological, prehistoric and cultural-historical objects.
 
Please register for the press conference at: presse@nhm.at

Inquiry note:
Mag. Irina Kubadinow
Head of Press & Public Relations, press spokesperson
Tel.: + 43 (1) 521 77-410
irina.kubadinow@nhm.at
 
Mag. Klara Vakaj
Press officer
Tel.: + 43 (1) 521 77-626
klara.vakaj@nhm.at