A true research museum, the Natural History Museum Vienna employs around 60 researchers who ensure the scientific management of the over 270-year-old collections that include roughly 30 million objects. The showrooms present approx. 1% of these holdings. NHM highlights include the Venus of Willendorf, Steller's Manatee and Deck 50, a new hall dedicated to science communication.
The rich collections of the NHM Vienna provide information about the past, present and future of our Earth. Witnesses to the Earth’s history, including minerals or fossils, meteorites from outer space, human skeletons or evidence from the animal and plant world are not only collected and exhibited, but they are also the object of continuous investigation using ever new scientific methods.


ARCHIVES OF THE FUTURE (from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.)

The NHM Vienna’s more than 30 million collection items from virtually all fields of science as well as prehistory represent the basis for forward-looking research. The NHM researchers will present their objects and current research results at a variety of stations.


Stations in the exhibition halls with NHM Vienna scientists on site (from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.):

Mineralogy
Think big! We will rock you!

Palaeontology
Tropical seas and mammoth steppes

Prehistory
Emerged – 6,000-year-old lakeshores and bogland settlements
Sound objects from the Prehistory Archives

Anthropology
The human skeleton as archives and a guided tour behind the scenes into the research areas

Central research laboratories
Austrian Barcode of Life (ABOL): Austria’s genetic archives

Together, not alone: draughtsman Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826) in botany, zoology, library and archives for the history of science

Zoology
Historical specimens in a new light - millipedes and crabs
Gods, queens and explosions
Minnows – small fry making a big splash I Biodiversity of Austria's minnows


3D Museum
The past in 3D

The museum as never seen by visitors (from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.)
The photographer Stefan Oláh spent more than a year looking behind the scenes and capturing the Natural History Museum Vienna in photos, from the four-storey underground storage facility all the way up to the roof.
Special exhibition in the new Hall 21

For families: which butterfly is that? (from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
How can you identify different butterflies, beetles, bugs and other insects? And how can you distinguish between the different groups and species? This is the place to find out! Come see the micro-show and the lab on Deck 50.

Biodiversity and science (from 10 p.m. to midnight)
Identifying individual species of insects or spiders is usually difficult and requires a lot of experience. Often it requires tiny details that can only be seen under the microscope. Micro-show and microscopy in the laboratory on deck 50.

Vienna from the rooftop (from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.)
A cultural-history walk through the museum ends with a cocktail on the roof and a view of Vienna.
Tickets (€ 9) are available at the information desk.

Wiener Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Astronomie (from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.)
Catch a look at the stars above Vienna through the telescopes of the Wiener Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Astronomie. Maria-Theresien-Platz, in front of the NHM Vienna.
 
NHM displays at the Narrenturm:
The Narrenturm, which containsa pathological-anatomical collection (Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna), also offers a nocturnal programme: the permanent exhibition illustrates different topics of pathology as well as the history of pathological research in Vienna. The history of the Narrenturm itself is another theme, including the expert renovation of the building in keeping with its status as a listed building.

About the anatomy and causes of disease
The collection areas are presented at several stations. Diseases and their research are explained on the basis of various preparation methods.

Organisational information:
Tickets for the Long Night of Museums can be purchased directly at the ticket office of the Natural History Museum Vienna.

Enquiries:
Mag. Irina Kubadinow
Leitung Presse & Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Pressesprecherin
Tel.: + 43 (1) 521 77 - 410
irina.kubadinow@nhm-wien.ac.at