Events

Upcoming events

Eine Zusammenarbeit im Namen der Wissenschaft?

Vortrag von Dominik Spörker am 8. April 20825 im Weltmuseum Wien zum Tag der Provenienzforschung

In einem Forschungsprojekt, welches vom BMKÖS gefördert wird, werden im Weltmuseum Wien die Sammlungen der Corvette „Saida“ untersucht. Von ihren Reisen brachte die Corvette Objekte aus Afrika, Asien, Australien, Ozeanien und Südamerika mit. (More Information here ...)

Past events

2025

Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian’s Photo Albums of the Austrian Levant Squadron 1855

Lecture by Mathias Böhm from the Picture Archive of the Austrian National Library on February 27, 2025, at the Naval Association Vienna. In 1855, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, the eldest brother of the reigning Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, undertook an almost five-month-long sea voyage through the Mediterranean. It was the Archduke’s personal wish that the most innovative photographic institution of the time, the Imperial and Government Printing Establishment, delegate the also 23-year-old Franz Mai to document the journey photographically. The result is a unique series of images, preserved as a collection of loose sheets containing up to 49 photographs. (More Information here ...)

2024

Workshop "Provenance research with a focus on collections of the Imperial Navy of Austria-Hungary

On December 2nd and 3rd 2024 at the Weltmuseum Wien.

Lecture: A critical review of the research voyages of the Habsburg Navy

On 27 June 2024, Dominik Spörker presented a look at the problems of provenance research in modern museum practice using selected examples, at the Naval Association Vienna.