Museum of the Vienna North West Railway Station – 'Excavations'

Two open-air installations document important historical events at their original locations. The ground plan lines of the station hall and the location of the anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda exhibition ‘The Eternal Jew’, which was set up in the station in 1938 and showed its inciting effect in pogroms, robbery, and deportation, were traced on the ground at a scale of 1:1 and marked by construction site barriers. Alongside this excavation site, there is an exhibition documenting how Soviet pioneers repaired the northwest railway bridge – the city’s first and only railway connection across the Danube at the time – in order to supply the city with urgently needed food from the Marchfeld region, as well as firewood and coal from Czechoslovakia. The improvised platforms in front of the station hall, which was demolished in 1952, served as a replacement station for passenger transport between Vienna and the north until 1959.

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