Folk Life Museum

at the Paulustor

Today: 10:00 - 18:00

The new Folk Life Museum at the Paulustor in Graz tells of different lifestyles, social and cultural change.

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Folk Life Museum The new Folk Life Museum at the Paulustor in Graz tells of different lifestyles, social and cultural change and how changes in everyday life shape and move us.

1913

Since 1913, the Folk Life Museum has been collecting, preserving and interpreting material evidence of social life and human destiny.

20.000

The collections of the Folk Life Museum include a comprehensive folklore library with around 15,000 individual volumes as well as 80 current specialist journals, periodicals and publication series, a connected archive with rich source material on Styrian folk culture as well as a diverse picture archive with around 20,000 colour slides as well as many historical photographs.

2022

Since November 2022, a modified "Trachtensaal" has been open to visitors again. Currently, its history, contents and interpretations, garments and figurines are being re-explored and contextualised by the museum.

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Participation

Age(ing) and Living

A participatory museum project

One collection focal point of the Folk Life Museum is that of ‘living’.

Not only does the smoking room bear witness to historical living practices, but countless objects from the collection also show the habits of different people and generations regarding how they lived.

The Folk Life Museum aims to use various workshops and events to explore how living, especially in old age, is changing. The goal of this participatory project is to invite people, institutions and cooperation partners to research these topics together with a team from the Folk Life Museum, and then to devise an exhibition based on the findings.

Duration: 07.03.-08.12.2025
Opening: 06.03.2025, 17 Uhr

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Exhibitons

Sammlungskabinett

Counting culture

Cross stitch from the past to the present

Duration: 22.11.2024 - 31.05.2026

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DigiDic

Call for Digital Self-Defence

This interdisciplinary exhibition addresses the theme of digital dictatorship as well as the question of autonomy and the development of strategies for digital self-defence

06.07.2024-09.03.2025

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Permanent exhibitions

The Folk Costume Room

The Folk Costume Room

The Folk Costume Room, accessible via a glass bridge since the alteration of 2003, is the largest exhibition room in the Folk Life Museum and an expression of Viktor Geramb’s research into the Styrian history of apparel (jointly with Konrad Mautner), as well as his collecting activity and museological approaches.
Worlds – Changes – Perspectives

Worlds – Changes – Perspectives

The title Worlds - Changes - Perspectives marks the starting point for the Folk Life Museum’s new exhibition. It undertakes a survey of the current social situation and cultural forms of expression, linking these how a Central European region sees and perceives itself, one which also enjoys especial popularity as a tourist destination.

Permanently at the site

The church of St Anthony of Padua

The church of St Anthony of Padua

The church of St Anthony with paintings by Pietro de Pomis and Hans Adam Weißenkircher is part of the museum complex of the Folk Life Museum.
Manfred Erjautz: Plowflow

Manfred Erjautz: Plowflow

Installation in public space at Paulustor
Five plows floating in the air mark the historic building complex of the Folk Life Museum in the former Capuchin monastery founded in 1913 and reopened in 2021. 

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