Claudia Banz will be scientific director of the World Museum from February 2025

An exciting upheaval is before in the World Museum Vienna! From February 1, 2025, the dynamic Claudia Banz will take command as the new scientific director. The renowned KHM Museum Association has set a huge sign with this decision!

The Banz born in Mannheim in 1966 has an impressive career, which is characterized by creative ideas and groundbreaking exhibitions. With a degree in art history, Romance and Archeology at the most respected universities, including Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin, she made a name for herself in the 90s with her dissertation about the courtesy patronage of the Habsburgs in Brussels.

experience that enthusiastically

Currently Claudia Banz is a curator of design and outreach at the Berlin arts and craftsmuseum and has the visitor flow there through innovative projects such as Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion X Hair x Design and the platform More-Than-Human. Design after the anthropocene significantly increased. The museum has not only repositioned its tireless efforts, but also addressed completely new target groups!

Before her commitment in Berlin, she carried out pioneering exhibitions such as Food Revolution 5.0 as head of the Museum of Art and Commerce Collection of the Museum of Art and Commerce in the Museum of Art and Commerce Hamburg, which managed to make the audience think. From 1999 to 2011 she worked as a freelance curator in international museums and implemented countless innovative projects, including the much -noticed exhibition Africa remix. Contemporary art of a continent .

an innovative change of course

Claudia Banz's philosophy is clear: museums have to develop as participatory cultural areas and critically questioned from a globally networked perspective. Your goal: overcoming traditional museum taxonomies and dealing with contemporary topics that are currently moving our society, such as resilience and biodiversity.

"It is a great honor and joy to lead the World Museum Vienna as a scientific director from February 2025," she emphasizes full of enthusiasm. For Banz, it is of enormous importance to further expand the outstanding collections of the World Museum and to prepare their historical interdependencies in post -colonial perspectives.

In the context of the KHM Museum Association, one of the most important votes in the international cultural scene, it sees the World Museum as an open place of reflection and exchange for a diverse society.

Sabine Haag, General Director of the KHM Museum Association, is enthusiastic: "With Claudia Banz, an experienced museum expert takes over the management in the World Museum Vienna. This decision is another step in the right direction!"

Also Jonathan Fine, the designated general director of the KHM Museum Association, is pleased with the appointment: "I am very pleased that Claudia Banz, who has already designed much-respected exhibitions, will continue our visionary work in the World Museum Vienna!"

The anticipation for the upcoming challenges and changes is great! The Vienna World Museum is facing an exciting era!