New Year's reception 2025: A look at Vienna's Natural History Museum!

New Year's reception 2025: A look at Vienna's Natural History Museum!

The Natural History Museum (NHM) Vienna opens its doors to the New Year's reception 2025, warmly invited by General Director Dr. Katrin Vohland and economic managing director Mag. Markus Roboch. On January 20 at 10:30 a.m., an important press conference will take place in the new lecture hall of the museum to take a comprehensive balance of activities and to give exciting insights into planned exhibition and research projects. Admission begins at 10:00 a.m., whereby the speech by curator: inside the specific initiatives of 2025 will illuminate. Construction modernization measures that should give the museum new shine, such as the announced barrier -free design of the entrance area, are promoted by the Federal Government, as well as the restoration of herpetological and bird halls to enable a better understanding of evolution. This reported ots.at . In the course of the presentation, an important research project is also presented, which is coordinated by the geological-paleontological department of the NHM. In the Initiative "A Geological Time Travel Through Vienna" supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, geological collections were carried out and around 23,000 objects mapped at 230 finds in Vienna. Time breakdowns are covered from 14 million years ago to the first vines around Vienna 10 million years ago. Interested parties can look forward to deeper insights into Vienna's geological history, while the new book “Vienna Am Sand” by Mathias Harzhauser and Thomas Hofmann clearly presented the exciting knowledge. The book presentation takes place on October 2, 2024 in the NHM, this reported nhm.at .