The Land of the Styrians in Working Clothes

Pictures of an Economic History

14.09.2019-19.01.2020 > History Museum

This exhibition is devoted to ‘work and economic activity’ in the regions of Styria from the mid-19th century to the turn of the millennium. more ...

Go Jump in a Lake, Styria!

07.06.-25.08.2019 > History Museum

Summer, sun and the fun of swimming are terms hardwired into our imagination. more ...

100 Years of Border III: 1946–2018

Life at the Border

01.02.-19.05.2019 > History Museum

Opening: 31.01.2019, 7pm
The third and final part of the exhibition series is devoted to what has permeated – and what has not – through the border from 1946 onwards right up to our times. more ...

100 Years of Border II: 1919–1945

Life at the Border

14.09.2018-20.01.2019 > History Museum

Opening: 13.09.2018, 7 pm
From national charge over National Socialist border displacement policy to the Iron Curtain. An exhibition in three chapters. more ...

100 Years of Border I: 1900–1918

The Period before Demarcation

19.04.-02.09.2018 > History Museum

From borders in our minds to borders in real life. An exhibition in three chapters. more ...

Peter Rosegger. Forest Home and a Changing World

09.02.2018-10.02.2019 > History Museum

This exhibit presents one of the most famous Styrian personalities: as a mountain farmer and author, between Waldheimat and Europe, characterized by patriotism, monarchy and nationalism, open to reformatory movements, as a commentator and admonisher on social issues. more ...

Styrian Nightscape

Photo expedition to Styria by night

17.11.2017-08.04.2018 > History Museum

For most people night is the time of peace and quiet. Contrasting with this, night work and night life are part of urban leisure culture. In this photo-historical, documentary project, we set out to uncover ‘the land at night’. more ...

‘One Hammer Blow…’

500 years of Protestant faith in Styria

15.06.2017-07.01.2018 > History Museum

Our exhibition – key for Styria – is dedicated to the reverberations through the ages of his hammer blows, in this anniversary year, 2017. more ...

The Fauth photographs

A photo studio in west Styria

28.04.-08.10.2017 > History Museum

The exhibition tells this remarkable story by means of selected photographs and documents. more ...

The Production of Things

16.09.2016-07.05.2017 > History Museum

Taking as examples 30 objects from the Cultural Historical Collection, we trace the making of things from the initial material to the finished product. more ...

The River Mur

A Cultural History

28.08.2015-17.07.2016 10:00-17:00 > 

The exhibition places at centre stage the relationship between man and Styria’s largest river – the Mur. more ...

Styria and the ‘Great War’

28.06.2014-05.07.2015 10:00-17:00 > History Museum

In cooperation with the University of Graz more ...

Rays of Light

Film and Cinema in Styria 1896-1945

28.02.-02.11.2014 10:00-17:00 > History Museum

In the competition with and against time, this exhibition would like to develop visitors’ sensibility for the one medium that has shaped the culture of the 20th century like no other. more ...

Gekämmt und gesteckt

06.02.-04.05.2014 > History Museum

Die Kulturhistorische Sammlung zeigt erstmals eine Auswahl der interessantesten Haar- und Steckkämme. Der überwiegende Teil stammt aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. more ...

A Land of Images

One multimedia history of Styria

27.11.2011-02.09.2012 10:00-17:00 > History Museum

The Multimedia Collections present the visual memory of Styria as a ‘land of images’ and reflect the image as a medium of seemingly invisible and subtle resistance as well.   more ...

Giampaolo Babetto

Jewellery 1970-2011

11.05.-25.09.2011 10:00-18:00 > 

BICENTENARY PROGRAMME
A series of contemporary exhibitions on the ground floor of the Museum im Palais kicks off with jewellery by Giampaolo Babetto.   more ...

Time

From the moment to eternity

11.05.2011-31.12.2012 10:00-17:00 > 

An exhibition that visits time as a cultural and social phenomenon.    more ...

Georg Peuerbach

Court astronomer and astrologer

11.05.2011-31.12.2012 10:00-18:00 > 

Georg Peuerbach constructed the first folding sundial with inbuilt compass in 1451. This also took magnetic declination– the difference between geographical north and magnetic north - into account, which meant time could be stated precisely.    more ...