The UniGraz@Museum’s permanent exhibition features the world’s largest digital book, the world’s longest wave machine, and objects illustrating the development of physics research: from a marine chronometer and Austria’s oldest surviving laser apparatus to a tunnelling microscope that operates entirely without light or optical lenses. The exhibition also provides insights into scientific ethics.

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Guided tours are available during regular opening hours (Monday 10.00–15.00, Wednesday and Friday 10.00–13.00) without prior booking. Guided tours outside these times are available on other weekdays by prior booking only (on weekdays via: franz.stangl@uni-graz.at).

Every Monday at 10.00, there is also a guided tour at the UniGraz@Museum, which can be attended without prior booking.

The current temporary exhibition at the University Museums of the University of Graz, entitled “Experiencing Democracy. Your Voice. Your Vote. Your Future…”, invites you to take a critical look at the history and present state of democracy.

It offers insights into the very beginnings of the concept of democracy in ancient Greece, as well as the revival of this idea in the early modern period and its subsequent development right up to the present day.

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Guided tours are available during regular opening hours (Monday 10.00–15.00, Wednesday and Friday 10.00–13.00) without prior booking. Guided tours outside these times are available on other weekdays by prior booking only (on weekdays: franz.stangl@uni-graz.at).

Every Monday at 10.00, there is also a guided tour at the UniGraz@Museum, which can be attended without prior booking.

To coincide with the current temporary exhibition ‘Experiencing Democracy. Your Voice. Your Vote. Your Future…’, this special guided tour focuses on women who have helped shape, influence and advance democracy – from Olympe de Gouges to Jina Mahsa Amini.

As early as 1791, Olympe de Gouges called for women’s equality in her ‘Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen’, at a time when political participation was almost exclusively reserved for men.

Jina Mahsa Amini, by contrast, represents current struggles for freedom, self-determination and human rights. Her death sparked a global protest movement in which women, in particular, stood up for their rights, their bodies and their participation in society.

In this way, the guided tour bridges the gap between the past and the future: it highlights how historical demands for equality continue to resonate in the present day and the significance women continue to hold for the further development of democratic societies.

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The UniGraz@Museum’s regular opening hours are Monday 10:00–15:00 and Wednesday and Friday 10:00–13:00.

Flexible guided tours, including outside these times, are available exclusively by prior booking at franz.stangl@uni-graz.at.

Drawing on the exhibits at the Graz Crime Museum, which was founded in 1895 by Hans Gross, the general guided tour recounts the history of the Graz School of Criminology, including a selection of case histories that have been reconstructed from the case files relating to the objects on display. Also on display are artefacts from the history of criminalistics, such as the first evidence collection kit (‘Tatortkoffer’).

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The regular opening hours of the Hans Gross Crime Museum are Mondays 10:00–15:00 and Thursdays 13:00–17:00.

Every Monday at 11.00, a general guided tour of the permanent exhibition at the Hans Gross Crime Museum takes place, which can be attended without prior booking. Flexible guided tours, including outside these times, are available exclusively by prior booking at kriminalmuseum(at)uni-graz.at or stefan.koechel(at)uni-graz.at.