Funeral Museum Vienna

Funeral Museum - darkometer rating : 4 - The world's first museum on the subject of funerals – and of course it had to be in Vienna ! For the fullest exposure to Vienna's special relationship with death and funerals, this is the place to go! It's also good fun ... in that kind of morbid way! > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: This very special Vienna museum was founded in 1967 – as the world's first such institution of its kind. It was remodelled in 1987 when curator Wittigo Keller took over (until 2013). In its original location the museum could only be visited by special appointment and only on guided tours, led by the curator himself. But this has now changed! After the old location had to be given up due to a housing development, the museum moved to new premises out by the Central Cemetery (remember, 'central' here means 'centralized' rather than in a central location). In a way that is thematically more fitting and makes for a splendid combination . But it also means it's further away from central Vienna. The new museum also substantially modernized its permanent exhibition (this was done by an outside company, and by a new curator). This is now much more "up-to-date" in design and involves more than a dozen interactive screens and such like. Furthermore it now has regular opening hours, so visits are no longer by obligatory guided tour by appointment, so now you can just go any time you like (during opening hours, of course) and do the museum at your own pace. However, I slightly lament the fact that this way you no longer get the deeply black-humoured and (darkly) illuminating narrative and comments by the curator on the live tours.