The new TMW research platform – open research work, innovative formats, free accessibility.
In the spirit of interdisciplinary and transparent museum work, the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) is offering a new research platform to provide access to its wide range of holdings in the technical and historical archives, the collections and the library – comprehensively researched and contextualised.

The Open Science portal continuously presents innovative formats for communicating scientific topics arising from the museum’s research, exhibition and publication activities. Current focal points include the research exhibitions [Re]framing Colonial Infrastructures and Women at Work as well as the Open Access publications.

With freely available and networked content as well as the opportunity for in-depth exploration of digitised cultural heritage, the offering is aimed primarily – but not exclusively – at users from the fields of culture, science and teaching. The aim is to gain new, surprising insights from the constantly growing number of digital resources and to communicate them digitally.

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Graphic with four coloured panels featuring historical scenes on colonialism and a geometric frame over the panels.:

[Re]framing colonial Infrastructures

With the digital exhibition format [Re]framing Colonial Infrastructures, the Technisches Museum Wien is actively participating in the process of museum decolonisation. The aim is to convey a reflective approach to culturally sensitive sources on the history of transport and technology, particularly through a critical examination of colonialism and racism in the contextualisation of TMW archive holdings. As a “work in progress”, this research exhibition will be continuously developed and expanded until the end of 2025.


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Photo with women working at Jewellery feather factory :

Women at Work

The Women’s Pavilion at the Vienna World’s Fair of 1873 serves as the starting point for the multimedia web exhibition Women at Work.
The Vienna Women’s Pavilion marked the first time that the female working world was featured at a world exhibition, along with a call for better educational opportunities for girls and women. With over 1,000 photographs, historical publications and objects on the topics of the Vienna World’s Fair, women’s work and education, Women at Work invites you to discover, explore and delve deeper.


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Cover of insightOut. Journal on Gender & Sexuality in STEM Collections and Cultures2 (2024) Diverse Infrastructures? Gender, Queer & the Foundations of Society:

Open Access Publications

The Technisches Museum Wien is continuously working on expanding its open-access offerings. Currently, the TMW Editions are accessible online, along with the newly developed born-digital publication insightOut. Journal on Gender and Sexuality in STEM Collections and Cultures. In progress are efforts to retro-digitise existing print volumes of Blätter für Technikgeschichte and the development of a digital format for the museum's scientific series.


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