QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA
The Queer Museum Vienna takes Vienna’s cultural and equality policy a step further by establishing an anchor point for queer urban history and engaging with the city’s contemporary queer art. As an institution, the museum is first and foremost a place of scholarship for queer history and queer art, as well as a platform for mediation, conversation, and experimentation. All visitors are welcome and encouraged to engage with the museum through visiting exhibitions, public lectures, film screenings, educational programmes etc. to learn more about Vienna’s queer community.
MISSION STATEMENT
Vienna has its first Queer Museum! Our initiative takes the first step in that direction by creating a museum, an institution that gives queer art, culture, research, and history the visibility and attention it deserves. By establishing the Queer Museum Vienna, we want to celebrate queer histories/herstories/theirstories and open spaces to imagine and create multiple futures.
We want to pay attention to stories marked by ostracism, exclusion, and persecution, hiding, shame, and the individual and collective search for identity and the attempt to embroider oneself into the social fabric in terms of desire, pleasure, legality, equality, community, and pride.
Queer people are always, and have always been part of society, and so are artists who negotiate their identity outside the cisheteronormative matrix. To write her-, their- and his-tories is to collect marginalized narratives and underrepresented artistic positions and make them visible through creative experimentations and collaborations.
Vienna is a diverse and multicultural city with a long history of cultural production from the margins. We are founding the Queer Museum as a cultural institution to create an accessible and inclusive space for queer art, culture, research, and history. We envision a museum engaged in collecting and curating our contemporary existence through “queer museology” as well as a “queering of the museum”. We want to celebrate a vibrant, diverse, and active queer community in its multitudes and contradictions.
The Queer Museum Vienna is focused on:
Research / History
Art
Education
Community Building
Fostering virtual spaces
Inclusivity
Contact: team@queermuseumvienna.com