Museums

The Vienna Technical Museum sees itself as a future-orientated and socially effective institution that is guided by the idea of sustainability. It is enthusiastic about technology and science and fascinated by their impact on people and society. The museum shares this enthusiasm with its audience and reflects together with them on the socio-political consequences of technological progress.

The Kunsthaus Graz is proud to have established itself as a "green museum" and to be facing up to the challenges of climate change. The award of the Austrian Ecolabel for museums marks a significant milestone on the way to becoming a sustainable institution.

Read about the Austrian Ecolabel on Kultur Management Network and find a wide range of further information on the cultural sector here.

Does museum work have to be committed to a "better", i.e. more sustainable world? Or are museums places of education and enjoyment? The project "10 Viennese Museums x 17 SDGs" shows that both demands on museums can be met.

Originally conceived as a certification for hotels, the UZ 200 guideline has also opened up to culture in recent years. After museums, other actors are also interested in credibly demonstrating their efforts in the field of sustainability. Theatres and cinemas are particularly committed to this and so in the future it will also be possible for them to receive an award for their sustainable orientation.

The Natural History Museum Vienna, the Austrian National Library and the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) were honoured by Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler and State Secretary for the Arts and Culture Andrea Mayer for their sustainable corporate governance and ecological positioning.

Museums, archives and libraries see themselves as bridges between the past and the present - with perspectives on the future for which they provide important impulses. In order to make this concern visible to the outside world, there is the Austrian Ecolabel. That is why the Austrian National Library in Vienna also applied for the state seal of quality.

In an inspiring essay, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, General Director of the MAK, explains how climate protection can become an opportunity for all of us to shape an ecologically and socially sustainable climate modernity comparable to the time around 1900, and what role art and culture can play in this.

In the Roman town of Carnuntum, ecological sustainability plays a very important role. Therefore, it has applied for the Austrian Ecolabel. But: Was there also such a thing as environmental awareness in Roman antiquity? Read interesting facts about this here.

Since December, the Museum of Lower Austria has been a proud bearer of the Austrian Ecolabel. This makes it the first museum in Lower Austria and the third museum nationwide to receive this important award, after the KUNST HAUS WIEN and the Technischen Museum Wien.