Guided tour online
Curator tour (in German or Italian)
with Rudi Risatti
Curator Rudi Risatti takes you on this Zoom tour (German: April 12, 19, 26 and May 3; Italian: April 14) of Lodovico Ottavio Burnacini's upside-down world and presents the highlights of the exhibition.
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Exhibition
Grotesque Comedy.
Lodovico Ottavio Burnacini
8 Oct 2020 – 3 May 2021
The artist's flamboyant „Grotesques“ celebrate folly and twisting the reality – a victory of phantasy!
Exhibition
Online collection
Discover 9 Collections and the Library online!
An exquisite selection of objects from the world of the performing arts: stage models, puppet- and paper theatre, photographs, paintings, autographs, drawings, costumes, memorabilia, prints, posters and playbills.
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Video installation
After the End and Before the Beginning
10 Feb until 31 May 2021
A fictional continuation of both the ‘before’ and the ‘after’ of nine iconic characters from classic plays, created by toxic dreams.
Video installation
Familienjahreskarte
Unser Angebot für die ganze Familie
Mit der Familienjahreskarte in der Museumswundertüte geht die ganze Familie auf Entdeckungsreise durch die sieben Museen des KHM-Museumsverbands.
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Puppet Theatre DIGITAL
Nawang Wulan
Discover the first film documentation of Richard Teschner's (1879–1948) Puppet Theatre from 1920. It shows the recording of his interpretation of the dramatic Indonesian legend about Nawang Wulan, the divine nymph.
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I’ve lived with it eye-to-eye for eighteen years now, and if ever I feel tiredness overcoming me I glance over at it,
and then I am able to go on again.
Hermann Bahr (1863-1934) on Gustav Klimt's "Nuda Veritas"
Nuda Veritas
Gustav Klimt and Hermann Bahr
On show again at the Theatermuseum from 13 February 2020.
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Prejudice is a wall, from which everybody,
who ever ran against it, withdrew with a
bleading head.
Johann Nestroy (1801-1862)
Talisman
Anniversary
25 years Theatermuseum at Lobkowitz Palace
A publication on current research topics in the Theatermuseum's collections and departments.
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For the future
Sponsor one of our unique puppets!
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Online now!
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
For teachers
Vladimir Tatlin
Zangezi
A symbiotic relationship between the dramatic abstract work by Velimir Khlebnikov and the stage design model by stage designer Vladimir Tatlin. This stage is one of the principal works of theater constructivism.
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