Museum of the Northwest Railway Station
The museum tells the story of the area's past, about its days as an arm of the Danube teeming with fish, the opening of the magnificent terminus of a railway line connecting Vienna with northern Bohemia and the North Sea ports, the most significant imported goods, and pivotal political events, wars, crises, and interim uses. These include the anti-Semitic hate exhibition ‘The Eternal Jew’ in 1938, the station's special role during the Soviet occupation, its heyday with Austria’s first container crane and convoys of lorries heading east during the Cold War.
The existing buildings are currently being demolished to make way for an urban development area intended to accommodate 16,000 new residents by 2035. The museum has also been collecting artefacts from the working world. The long-term aim is to reintegrate these narratives as identity-forming markers into the new urban development taking shape here, and to establish the museum as a local cultural centre in one of the historic warehouses on the site.
