All programme items

DigiDic

Call for Digital Self-Defence

Who Are You, Styria?  

A project on collection objects and their stories

The Other Life

Photographs by Konrad Mautner

The Lustful Gaze

Now in the Right!

Paths to Equal Rights

All people are equal! Sadly, however, this does not mean that everyone is treated equally in daily life.

Identity on the Line

Opening: 02.02.2023, 6pm

Pretty colorful!

The rainbow phenomenon

The Folk Life Museum at the Paulustor puts the rainbow at the heart of a special exhibition and seeks answers to questions about a physical phenomenon with unsurpassed symbolic power.

SHOWING STYRIA: how it is

Worlds – Changes – Perspectives

The exhibition undertakes a survey of the current social situation and cultural forms of expression, linking these how a Central European region sees and perceives itself, one which also enjoys especial popularity as a tourist destination.

The Petrol Station Myth

This exhibition follows the trail of the petrol station from the very outset, via technical and architectural innovations, up to its role as a substitute shop and local centre of communication following the disappearance of grocers and inns.

In Bed

Episodes of a Refuge

What do people do in bed? This object is far more than just a piece of furniture.

Styria in View

Perspectives on a Landscape

The exhibition is part of the thematic focus on ‘Landscape’ that is being taken up at several Universalmuseum Joanneum locations throughout 2015.

Superstition – Super-knowledge

A World Not Random

The Folk Life Museum owns an extensive collection of objects from the 18th to the early 20th century, which are described as superstitious, folkloristic or simply as magical cures.

Folk Life Museum

Permanent exhibition

The permanent exhibition at the Folk Life Museum focuses thematically on three areas – The Home, Dress and Beliefs. These themes are represented by everyday things particularly of the pre-industrial period.

TimeTimeTime…

On the pace of life and the art of dawdling

This exhibition is an invitation to think about the way we use time and to track down islands of autonomy that stand above the stream of time.   

Christmas presents – Who are they from, Baby Jesus or Father Christmas?

An exhibition at the Folk Life Museum

"Christmas Presents" traces a tortuous path through European cultural history, on the trail of a phenomenon whose religious roots are scarcely discernible any more.  

l[i]eben

boundless and offbounds

A collaborative exhibition between the Office of Memories and the Folk Life Museum  

Krampus. Wickedness Tamed

Exhibition at the Folk Life Museum

The Krampus is among the most fascinating figures in Austrian traditional life. A new exhibition at the Folk Life Museum features impressive examples from the private Wabitsch collection.