ZOOM children's museum

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Front side ZOOM Children's Museum
Backside ZOOM Children's Museum

The ZOOM Children's Museum is a museum in the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna's 7th district, Neubau . The ZOOM describes itself as a place of interaction between children and artists and aims to encourage children's interest in their environment.

history

The museum was founded in 1994 by Claudia Haas as the first children's museum in Austria and opened with the exhibition “Treffpunkt Picasso”. From 1994 to 2001 the house used rooms in the former exhibition palace on the site of today's MuseumsQuartier, in autumn 2001 the ZOOM moved into its current rooms in the MuseumsQuartier.

Elisabeth Menasse-Wiesbauer has been director of the museum since 2003 . In May 2019 it was announced that Andrea Zsutty would succeed her in this role in December 2019.

Mission statement and program

In experience and adventure rooms specially designed for children, topics from art, science and everyday culture can be explored in a playful way and tested and explored with all the senses. Child-friendly interactive exhibitions and workshops aim to arouse curiosity and creativity and impart knowledge. In addition to the major exhibitions, which change twice a year, there is a studio for artistic workshops, an animation studio and the ZOOM Ocean area for small children. In the Vienna Children's Lectures (since 2003), scientists from a wide variety of disciplines explain their special research area to children.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Meeting point Picasso (November 4 to December 20, 1994)
  • Nothing but air? (May 3 to June 20, 1995)
  • Elementary, Mr. Cragg (October 18 to December 15, 1996)
  • Schall und Rauch (October 8 to December 14, 1997)
  • one way or another (March 5th to July 5th, 1998)
  • Everything Box (October 7, 1998 to January 22, 1999)
  • ZeitReise - or how the future turns into the past (October 11 to December 10, 2000)
  • Room by room (September 29, 2001 to March 8, 2002)
  • Over Pants - Under Skirt (September 18, 2002 to February 16, 2003)
  • Ringing Numbers (September 30, 2003 to March 7, 2004)
  • Bone Graves - Times Hunter (September 29, 2004 to March 29, 2005) with Hans Schabus
  • Carving pictures - building sculptures (April 20 to September 4, 2005) with Gelitin , Hohenbüchler siblings
  • Wolfgang Amadé - a completely normal child prodigy (April 5 to November 19, 2006) with donmartin supersets
  • sky red - lemon blue (October 3, 2007 to August 26, 2008)
  • MEGA GREEK (September 23, 2008 to February 22, 2009)
  • It flies, it flies (September 30, 2009 to February 21, 2010) with the nextEnterprise architects
  • HA ZWEI OOO (March 18 to August 22, 2010) with Michael Kienzer
  • Moneten, Kies und Toads (September 29, 2010 to February 27, 2011) with the nextEnterprise architects
  • The big holidays (March 24th to August 28th 2011)
  • Caution road work! (September 29, 2011 to February 19, 2012)
  • Schmatz Mampf Schlurf (March 15 to September 2, 2012)
  • Everything family (September 28, 2012 to February 10, 2013)
  • Once upon a time ... the Middle Ages! (March 7, 2013 to February 16, 2014)
  • Detective Stories (March 13 to August 31, 2014)
  • Printing workshop (September 25, 2014 to September 6, 2015)
  • ART | FABRIC | PLASTIC - where from? For what? Where? (October 2, 2015 to September 4, 2016)
  • HEAR HEAR! LOOK LOOK! (September 29, 2016 to September 3, 2017)

Lecturers at the Vienna Children's Lectures (selection)

Anton Zeilinger
Aleida Àssmann
Helga Kromp-Kolb
Rudolf Taschner
Ille Gebeshuber
Werner Boats
Martin Schenk
Brigitte Felderer
Elke Krasny
Philipp Gunz
Falko Daim
Sabine Ladstätter
Alfred Noll
Barbara Imhof
Isolde Charim
Martin Aleksa

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: ZOOM Children's Museum: Andrea Zsutty new boss . Article dated May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 7.5 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 34.4 ″  E