ORF Long Night of the Museums 2025

The MAK is a museum for art and everyday life. Founded in 1863, the magnificent edifice on the Ringstraße designed by Heinrich von Ferstel houses a wide-ranging collection of applied art, design, architecture, and contemporary art.
 
In this year’s Long Night of the Museums, explore our current exhibitions in short compact guided tours, or use our MAK Guide and the free tours through the permanent collections on guide.MAK.at

The MAK will be open during the Long Night of Museums 2025 from 6 pm to midnight.
Sat, 4.10.2025 6 pm
MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
Besides our impressive permanent collections, you can visit the following exhibitions:

  • HITO STEYERL. Der Menschheit ist die Kugel bei einem Ohr hinein und beim anderen herausgeflogen [Humanity Had the Bullet Go In Through One Ear and Out Through the Other]
  • BICYCLE & LOBSTER: Sparkling Tree Decorations From Gablonz
  • TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present
  • JOHANN STRAUSS: FRANTIC ECSTASY. Feminist Free Dance in Posters 1900–1933

In the open family workshop with the title Night Butterflies from 6 to 9 pm, you can create richly patterned moths, Saturday Night Flyers or frilly nocturnal high-flyers together.

GUIDED TOURS
short and sweet
Length of the guided tour: ca 30 minutes
In German
 
6 pm
HITO STEYERL. Der Menschheit ist die Kugel bei einem Ohr hinein und beim anderen herausgeflogen [Humanity Had the Bullet Go In Through One Ear and Out Through the Other]
 
6.30 pm
TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present
 
7 pm
BICYCLE & LOBSTER: Sparkling Tree Decorations From Gablonz (with simultaneous translation into ÖGS)
 
7.30 pm
JOHANN STRAUSS: FRANTIC ECSTASY. Feminist Free Dance in Posters 1900–1933 (with simultaneous translation into ÖGS)
 
8 pm
HITO STEYERL. Der Menschheit ist die Kugel bei einem Ohr hinein und beim anderen herausgeflogen [Humanity Had the Bullet Go In Through One Ear and Out Through the Other] (with simultaneous translation into ÖGS)

8.30 pm
TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present (with simultaneous translation into ÖGS)
 
9 pm
BICYCLE & LOBSTER: Sparkling Tree Decorations From Gablonz
 
9.30 pm
JOHANN STRAUSS: FRANTIC ECSTASY. Feminist Free Dance in Posters 1900–1933
 
10 pm
HITO STEYERL. Der Menschheit ist die Kugel bei einem Ohr hinein und beim anderen herausgeflogen [Humanity Had the Bullet Go In Through One Ear and Out Through the Other]
 
10.30 pm
TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present
 
11 pm
BICYCLE & LOBSTER: Sparkling Tree Decorations From Gablonz
 
6–9 pm
MAK4Family: Night Butterflies
In an open workshop setting, a wide variety of things can be created together, whether richly patterned moths, Saturday night flyers or dressed up nocturnal high-flyers. First they decorate and then fly out in the night.

Workshop for kids and teens
No registration necessary.
Drop in any time you like
 
MAK Guide
Explore the MAK and its collection using the digital MAK Guide! Audio clips and high-resolution visual material let you experience 100 fascinating MAK objects and their histories in an entirely new way. The MAK Guide is free and accessible without download on your smartphone at guide.MAK.at. Don’t forget your earphones!

Tickets
Available from Autumn 2025

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