Museum of the Vienna Northwest Railway Station

The site of Vienna's Northwest Railway Station will soon have to make way for a huge urban development area for 14,500 residents. Before the final demolition, the museum on site documents the eventful history of this last logistics hub close to the city centre, which seems to have fallen into oblivion despite its size and importance.

In two special exhibitions, the museum, the ‘museum filling station’, and the open spaces of the railway station also serve as an artistic vessel for the collection of stories of fish and logistics of all kinds – for the former Danube wetlands beneath the site of the Northwest Railway Station once offered ideal spawning grounds and habitats for a multitude of fish, which were destroyed by massive embankments for the new railway stations, Danube ports and commercial enterprises. Using the railway station as an example, the exhibition traces the relocation of nameable technical infrastructure facilities, company branches, and workers to the peripheries of the city and beyond.

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