28.05.2025 – 25.05.2026
Colonialism on the windowsill has a look at ten of the most popular house and balcony plants for centuries, whose natural habitat is outside Europe. These plants have a similar history to our ethnographic collections, and some of them arrived in Europe and museums together with the artefacts on long voyages. In addition to the search for medicinal and useful plants, now known as cash crops (plants grown on a large scale for export), the hunger or hunt for foreign plants began in the 18th and 19th centuries with the consideration of what benefits the import of plants could have for Europe.
Colonialism on the windowsill
28.05.2025 – 25.05.2026
Weltmuseum Wien
Heldenplatz
1010 Vienna
www.weltmuseumwien.at
