The new TMW research platform – open research work, innovative formats, free accessibility.
In the spirit of interdisciplinary and transparent museum work, the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) is offering a new research platform to provide access to its wide range of holdings in the technical and historical archives, the collections and the library – comprehensively researched and contextualised.

The Open Science portal continuously presents innovative formats for communicating scientific topics arising from the museum’s research, exhibition and publication activities. Current focal points include the research exhibitions [Re]framing Colonial Infrastructures and Women at Work as well as the Open Access publications.

With freely available and networked content as well as the opportunity for in-depth exploration of digitised cultural heritage, the offering is aimed primarily – but not exclusively – at users from the fields of culture, science and teaching. The aim is to gain new, surprising insights from the constantly growing number of digital resources and to communicate them digitally.

There is still a lot to discover and share. Let’s keep researching together!


 


insightOut › 1 (2023) Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Food, Issue 1:
The Technisches Museum Wien is continuously working on expanding its open-access offerings. Currently, the TMW Editions are accessible online, along with the newly developed born-digital publication „insightOut. Journal on Gender and Sexuality in STEM Collections and Cultures“. In progress are efforts to retro-digitise existing print volumes of "Blätter für Technikgeschichte" and the development of a digital format for the museum's scientific series.



CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Contact

openscience@tmw.at