Due to its history of origins the department’s widely ranged research portfolio comprises areas of basic and applied research. The centers are individually united through essential contributions provided by the research of regional, national and global cultural heritage and its transfer in cooperation with Landessammlungen Niederösterreich and further national and international partners. 

In addition, the effect of visual worlds is analysed interdisciplinarily and new scientific tools for visual arts research are developed. One focus is on researching the history of media art as well as (audio)visual illusion and immersion media.

Apart from overriding themes, various organizational department units research in their specific fields of competence.
 

Projects

ruth weiss: Complete Published Works Critical Hybrid Edition

Duration: 01/06/2025–31/05/2029
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Helmut Neundlinger
Funding: FWF

Composing Change. Orchestral Impact in European Societies

Duration: 01/03/2025–29/02/2028
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Olga Kolokytha
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Private libraries as sources for the reception of Austrian literature in the 19th century. Vincenz Seback's book collection in the mirror of its time

Duration: 01/01/2025–31/12/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Anja Grebe
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Art Experience in the (Post-) Digital Age - { original | digital | virtual }

Duration: 15/03/2024–13/03/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Hanna Brinkmann
Funding: FWF

Sammlungswissenschaftliche Erforschung des Naturalienkabinetts im niederösterreichischen Benediktinerstift Seitenstetten

Duration: 01/03/2025–28/02/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Sandra Sam
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

The scientific potential of archaeological collections from regional and local museums in Lower Austria - The example of the City Museum Korneuburg

Duration: 01/03/2024–28/02/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Anja Grebe
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Fair:Play

Duration: 01/09/2024–31/08/2026
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Thomas Wernbacher
Funding: FFG

Gesundes Museum - Wie Museen einen Beitrag zur Gesundheitsförderung im Alter liefern können

Duration: 01/12/2023–31/08/2026
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Stefanie Auer
Funding: Sonstige

Digitizing and reconstructing an Upper Paleolithic infant twin burial from Krems-Wachtberg

Duration: 01/09/2023–31/08/2026
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Anja Grebe
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Capturing Archaeological Reality (CARe)

Duration: 01/10/2024–30/06/2026
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Sandra Sam
Funding: Bund (Ministerien)

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Publications

Belinskaya, Y., Kolokytha, O. (2025). From outlaw art to urban euphoria: Graffiti legitimization processes from within. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 11(2): 171-191

Windhager, F.; Koch, S.; Münster, S.; Mayr, E. (2025). Editorial: Visualizing Big Culture and History Data. Frontiers in Big Data, Volume 8 - 2025: https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2025.1563730

Baer, M., Emmerig, H. (2025). Die Geschichte der Sammlung am Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte der Universität Wien. In: Martin Mulsow, Katharina Martin, Johannes Wienand, Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der universitären Münzsammlungen im deutschsprachigen Raum: 437-473, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Wien

Blaschitz, E. (2025). Das Nicht-Sichtbare sichtbar machen: Archive, transnationale Erinnerungskulturen und digitale Kollaboration am Beispiel „belasteter“ Orte der NS-Zeit. In: Peter, B.; Vogt, G.; Baumann, C.; Illmayer, K.; Rind, A.; Tiefenbacher, S., Digitale Strategien zur Erschließung prekärer Bestände. Über Erzählen, Ausstellen, Partizipieren. 245–258, V&R unipress, Göttingen

Blaschitz, E. (2025). Showing the invisible: Archives, transnational cultures of remembrance and digital collaboration by the example of “historically-charged” sites from the Nazi era. In: Peter, B.; Vogt, G.; Baumann, C.; Illmayer, K.; Rind, A.; Tiefenbacher, S., Digitale Strategien zur Erschließung prekärer Bestände. Über Erzählen, Ausstellen, Partizipieren: 259-270, V&R unipress, Göttingen

Neundlinger, H. (2025). "Die Idee des Kommunismus wird überdauern". Die politischen Sozialisationen des Fran Kain. In: Georg Hofer, "Ich bin in Opposition zu meiner Zeit getreten ..." Franz Kain (1922-1997): 103-116, Adalbert-Stifter Institut des Landes Oberösterreich, Linz

Brait, A. (2024). „Vergangenheitskunde“ oder Holocaust-Education? Einblicke in den österreichischen Geschichtsunterricht zum Thema „Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust“ über Geschichtshefte bzw. -mappen. zeitgeschichte, 51 (2024), Heft 4: 493–514

Chaidemenaki, L.; Kolokytha, O. (2024). Whose culture is it anyway? Perceptions of accessibility in museums by professionals working with people with intellectual disabilities in Greece. Museum Management and Curatorship, online first: 1-18

Kusnick, J.; Mayr, E.; Seirafi, K.; Beck, S.; Liem, J.; Windhager, F. (2024). Every Thing Can Be a Hero! Narrative Visualization of Person, Object, and Other Biographies. Informatics, 11: 26

Zenk L.; Pausits A.; Brenner B.; Campell D.F.; Behrens D.A. Stöckler E.M.; Oppl St.; Steiner G. (2024). Meta-competences in complex environments: An interdisciplinary perspective. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 53: 101515

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