About us

The History of the Graz Museum

The Years of Establishment and Travel
In 1928, the Stadtmuseum was founded by the municipality of Graz, the Landesmuseum Joanneum, the University of Graz, the Graz University of Technology, and the Styrian State Archive as a historical museum of the city of Graz on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the first documented reference to the city of Graz. As late as ten years after it had been established—the items of the collection had been boxed in inadequate depots or had been placed in rooms of the town hall—, the museum was provided with exhibition rooms in the Palais Attems, Sackstraße 17. In 1951, it became a part of the Landesmuseum Joanneum and moved to Schloss Eggenberg but it returned to the city centre and into the ownership of the municipality in 1969. The exhibits of that time were historical objects and works of art owned by the municipality; over time, they were complemented by acquisitions and donations.

Permanent Residence in the Palais Khuenburg
After provisional solutions that had lasted for 44 years, the Stadtmuseum finally found its permanent residence in the Palais Khuenburg, Sackstraße 18, in 1972. There, efforts were made, beside comprehensively communicating the history of the city—building on the collection on display, which was opened in 1982—to resume the until then rather modest collecting activity. From 1995 to 1997, the museum was modernised under the leadership of Dr. Gerhard M. Dienes, who managed this institution for 15 years. Moreover, it shifted its focus towards a programme of special exhibitions—with shows such as “Wasser“ (Water), “trans lokal. Neun Städte im Netz“ (trans local. Nine Cities in the Network), and “Die Gesetze des Vaters“ (The Laws of the Father).

Ownership
In 2005, the museum was outsourced from the municipal administration under the leadership of Otto Hochreiter and has operated as Stadtmuseum Graz GmbH since then. Yet, the institution has also remained a hundred percent in the sole ownership of the City of Graz after it was outsourced. Dr. Günter Riegler is the City Councillor. Since January 2023, Sibylle Dienesch has been managing the Stadtmuseum Graz GmbH.

European Museum of the Year Award 2023 Special Commendation
The former Stadtmuseum Graz turned into the stadtmuseumgraz, and into the Graz Museum from the autumn of 2012 onwards, an exhibition venue which attracted plenty of attention on a supra-regional level and was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award 2014 with its permanent exhibition “360GRAZ | Die Stadt von allen Zeiten” (The City in All Times | from All Perspectives).
The Graz Museum Schlossberg was the only museum in Austria to receive a Special Commendation as part of the European Museum of the Year Award 2023.

The Team

Management

Mag. Sibylle Dienesch
Director
sibylle.dienesch@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7601

Mag. Stefanie Plut, M.A.I.S.
Assistant of the Management
stefanie.plut@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7618

Adrienn Csiszar
Commercial assistant
adrienn.csiszar@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7615

Margitta Glawogger
Accountant
margitta.glawogger@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7615

Marketing & Communication

Mag. Martina Pock, M.A.
Marketing & Public Relations
martina.pock@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 608727616

Vanessa Bednarek, BA MA
Social Media
vanessa.bednarek@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 88530489

Management Graz Museum Schlossberg

Dr.in Brigitte Schuchlenz
Location Management Graz Museum Schlossberg
brigitte.schuchlenz@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 60 872 7630

Digital Museum Practice

Antonia Nussmüller, MA MA
Digital Museum Practice
antonia.nussmueller@stadt.graz.at

Exhibitions

Mag. Dr. Bernhard Bachinger
Head of Exhibitions, Curator
bernhard.bachinger@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 608727602

Vanessa Bednarek, BA MA
Exhibition assistant
vanessa.bednarek@stadt.graz.at

+43 664 88530489

Catalin Betz, MA
Curator exhhibitions
catalin.betz@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 611 5862

Daniela Brasil, PhD MFA
Curator Exhibitions
daniela.brasil@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 8885 3869

Ogül Büber-Ottitsch, MA MSc
Exhibition Assistant
oguel.bueber-ottitsch@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 7801 8730

Mag. Annette Rainer
Curator Exhibitions
annette.rainer@stadt.graz.at
+43 664608727611

Mag. art Franziska Schurig
Exhibition Assistant
franziska.schurig@stadt.graz.at
+43 664608727607

Cultural Education & Visitor Services

Mag. Annette Rainer
Head of Cultural Education and Visitor Services
annette.rainer@stadt.graz.at
+43 664608727611

Dina Ahmed, BA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
dina.ahmed@stadt.graz.at

Dominik Augustinović
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
dominik.augustinovic@stadt.graz.at

Mag. Karoline Boehm
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
karoline.boehm@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7614

Silke Essinger
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
silke.essinger@stadt.graz.at

Evangelos Evangelinidis, MA MA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
evangelos.evangelinidis@stadt.graz.at

Mag. Angela F, MA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
angela.fink@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 88840 642

Maximilian Linser, MA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
maximilian.linser@stadt.graz.at

MMag.a Brigitte Platzer
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
brigitte.platzer@stadt.graz.at

Stefanie Pöschl, BA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
stefanie.poeschl@stadt.graz.at

Christina Rajković, MA MA BA BA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
christina.rajkovic@stadt.graz.at
on maternity leave

Dominik Rath, BA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
dominik.rath@stadt.graz.at

Nikita Reichelt, MSc
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
maximilian.linser@stadt.graz.at

Katharina Sauer, BA MA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
katharina.sauer@stadt.graz.at

Claire Scariot, MA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
claire.scariot@stadt.graz.at

Christoph Schaffer
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
christoph.schaffer@stadt.graz.at

Dr. Brigitte Schuchlenz
Cultural Education
brigitte.schuchlenz@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 60 872 7630

Mag. Robert Tendl
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
robert.tendl@stadt.graz.at

Nathalie Winter, BA
Cultural Education and Visitor Services
nathalie.winter@stadt.graz.at

Collections

Dr. Wolfram Dornik
Head of Collections
wolfram.dornik@stadt.graz.at
+43 664608727626

MMag. Elisabeth Berger
Provenance Research and Restitution
elisabeth.berger@stadt.graz.at

Thomas Harmuth
Research associate
thomas.harmuth@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 888 53 828

Björk Kosir, BA MA
Archeological assistant and software management collections
bjoerk.kosir@stadt.graz.at

Mag. Dr. Susanne Lamm
Head of City archeology
susanne.lamm@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 88853826

Mag. Katharina Mraček-Gabalier, MA
Curator of Collections
Deputy Head of Collections
katharina.gabalier@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7608

Mag. Eva Schantl, MA
Conservator
eva.schantl@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 6115 895

Anna Zelenka, BA BA
Archeological assistant
anna.zelenka@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 8647 074

Municipal Archive

Mag. Dr. Wolfram Dornik
Head of City Archive Graz
wolfram.dornik@stadt.graz.at
+43 664608727626

Gregor-Josef Harler
gregor-josef.harler@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7623

Dipl.-Archivarin (FH) Mag. Tamara Kefer
Registrar
tamara.kefer@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7621

Ferdinand Leisch, BA
User Service | Construction records
ferdinand.leisch@stadt.graz.at

+43 316 872-7621

Dipl.-Ing. Barbara Meyer, MSc
Employee
barbara.meyer@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7625

Mag. Juliane Maria Nitsch
User service
juliane.nitsch@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7627

Kathrin Pammer
Archive, library and information assistant
kathrin.pammer@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7622

Amelie Rakar, BA MA
Archivist
amelie.rakar@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 88530453

Mag. Peter Schintler
Historical requests
peter.schintler@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7624

Caitlin Staber
Archive, library, information assistant
caitlin.staber@stadt.graz.at
+43 316 872-7629

Tecnical Services

Edin Prnjavorac, BSc
Technical Management
edin.prnjavorac@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 60 872-7606

Herbert Fortin
Member of the technical team
herbert.fortin@stadt.graz.at
+43 664 608 727-609

Cleaning

Doris Köpf

Supervisory Board

Mag.a Edith Zitz
Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board

Christine Braunersreuther, Dipl. Museol. (FH)
Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board

Mag.a Susanne Bauer

Dr. Martin Moll

Elisabeth Potzinger

Mag. Max Zirngast

Works Council

Thomas Harmuth
Chairman of the works council

Maximilian Linser, MA
Deputy Chairman of the works council

Mag.a Karoline Boehm

Evangelos Evangelinidis, MA MA

Dr. Susanne Lamm

Ferdinand Leisch, BA

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