The Österreichische Mediathek (Austrian Media Library), part of the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna museum of science and technology), preserves Austria’s audio-visual heritage. Our archive comprises more than two million audio and video recordings of Austrian history.
- We collect and index audio and video media ranging from shellack records to video files.
- We permanently secure our holdings through digitisation and digital long-term archiving.
- We make Austria’s audio-visual cultural heritage accessible to the public as well as to science and education.
The Österreichische Mediathek boasts the most extensive audio-visual web presence on Austria’s culture and history, offering more than 30 web exhibitions on cultural and historical topics.
With our catalogues and contextualised and citable audio and video recordings made available online, our embeddable player as well as our metadata available for download, we support research in the fields of human, social and cultural sciences.
