The Folk Life Museum was founded in 1913 as a department of the then Landesmuseum Joanneum under Viktor Geramb and has a unique collection of more than 95,000 objects documenting the material and spiritual culture of Styria.
While for many decades mainly rural cultural assets from the pre-industrial era were collected, the Folk Life Museum now also sees its task in taking up current socially relevant topics and integrating them into the existing collection by means of reference objects. Thus, the current collection includes not only objects of the traditional folkloric "canon" but, in addition, artifacts that document the changes and upheavals in contemporary society, such as objects on the Corona pandemic, on various migration trends, and on changes in the world of work.
