Events

Upcoming events

Conference: Austria-Hungary in the global colonial system

The Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna and the Collegium Hungaricum are planning a joint two-day conference on Austria-Hungary's colonial-historical past for 10 and 11 October 2025. More Information here ...

Past events

2025

Collaboration in the name of science?

Lecture by Dominik Spörker on 8 April 2025 at the Weltmuseum Wien on Provenance Research Day. In a research project funded by the BMKÖS, the collections of the Corvette ‘Saida’ are being analysed at the Weltmuseum Wien. The Corvette brought back objects from Africa, Asia, Australia, Oceania and South America from her travels. (More Information here ...)

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.