University Museums of the University of Graz: Long Night of Museums at both locations

University Museums: Programme for the Long Night of Museums

Location: UniGraz@Museum (University Square 3/KG)

18:00-24:00
Permanent exhibition: "From observing nature to nanophysics"
The current special exhibition: "Demokratie er-leben. Your voice. Your choice. Your future..." provides insights into the first beginnings of democracy since Ancient Greece as well as the resumption of this idea in the early modern period and its further development up to the present day. The focus is on the question: How much say do the people really have?

18:00-21:00:
Children's programme: What does democracy have to do with broken glass?
A hands-on station where you can write on shards of pottery in ancient Greek, just like at the shard court.

18:00-21:00:
Children's programme: Dressed to speak? Dressed like a Greek politician
Slip into the Himation, a cloak that Greek politicians once wore on the Pnyx at the People's Assembly.

18:00, 21:30 and 23:15 (= late-night curatorial tour)
Dance performance intro to the special exhibition "Experience Democracy": the ideas and impressions of the exhibition are not only visually and aurally absorbed and anchored in the memory, but also kinaesthetically: in moments of expressive dance, the audience is encouraged to experience and reflect on democracy in motion.
Participants: Dr Ligia L. Cristea, artist, dance and expressive dance teacher

20:00-20.45:
Laser research 60 years ago at the University of Graz

22:45-23:15:
Late-night guided tour through the permanent exhibition
"From the observation of nature to nanophysics"

23:15:
Late-night guided tour through the special exhibition
"Experience democracy. Your voice. Your vote. Your future..."

LocationHans Gross Crime Museum (Heinrichstraße 18/1)

18:00-24:00
Hans Gross is the "father of criminology" and Graz is the original home of CSI! In addition to the famous crime scene case, many corpora delicti from around 1900 await you. Crime is scrutinised from a forensic science perspective and exciting criminal cases are presented.

20:00-21:00
Crime & Blues
"Da Wolf" Wolfgang Schober plays the "criminal blues" - a musical performance in a class of its own!

The team of the University Museums is looking forward to your visit!