The MuseumsQuartier. Retrospective and Perspectives of a Decade

in German

No other architectural brief has been more decisively caught in the crossfire between political and media interest. This cultural project polarised society into committed proponents and bitter adversaries with unprecedented vehemence and for an exceptionally long period of time. In the wrangling over the size and contents of the buildings, in the change of decision makers at a political level, the architect found himself to be the last survivor to have carried the Museumsquartier idea from the competition design to the realised project. This construction history is shown in a fast-forward overview, the reading tower in all its metamorphoses and a view cast on more recent architectural considerations.

19:00 Dietmar Steiner, director of the Az W, welcome address 19:10 Laurids Ortner, architect, lecture ‘Recapitulating the Building’s History’

19:30 panel discussion:

Erhard Busek, head of the Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa
Hermann Czech, architect
Elisabeth Menasse-Wiesbauer, director of the ZOOM Kindermuseum
Laurids Ortner, architect
Dietmar Steiner, director of the Az W
Moderated by Dieter Bogner, museum planner