The Museum of Lost Technology: A Preview

An exhibition from The Museum of Lost Technology (2020–2026) by Ebru Kurbak, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education.
The Museum of Lost Technology: A Preview presents artistic experiments from a long-term practice-based research project investigating speculative “lost possibilities” at the intersections of textiles, science, and technology. What possibilities may have been lost through the historical exclusion of “women’s work” from early sites of science and technology? What kinds of technologies emerge when textile and string-based practices are approached as sites of invention?

Developed through conversations with scientists across fields, the exhibition brings together experiments, prototypes, and instruments in a setting that blurs boundaries between laboratory, craft workshop, and archive. The museum becomes a site not only of preservation, but of exploring technological imaginaries interrupted by the historical segregation of knowledges.

Ebru Kurbak, in dialogue with Lisa Kappel (Microbiology), Lukas Mairhofer (Experimental Physics), Franz Embacher (Mathematics), and the research assistants Miriam Daxl, Albane Kerisit, Shannon McLachlen, Emilia Pesty, and Ula Reutina.

The Museum of Lost Technology (2020–2026) is an Elise Richter PEEK Project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): 10.55776/V795. Selected works presented in the exhibition were additionally supported by the LACMA Art + Technology Lab, the MIT Space Exploration Initiative, NIROX Sculpture Park, the Austrian Cultural Forum Pretoria, Africa-UniNet, and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS).

Opening Hours
Mondays, 10:00–14:00
Wednesdays, 14:00–18:00