QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA braucht eure Hilfe! Gofundme!
Every € helps us to keep the QUEER MUSEUM running.
Click here to go to our GOFUNDME page:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-queer-museum-vienna-going
Why are we doing GOFUNDME?
QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA (QMV) was founded at the beginning of 2020 and is a relatively new initiative working with limited financial resources. Therefore, the team works mostly voluntarily for and from the community to establish a space for Queer culture and art. We fight against patriarchal structures and engage in activism for LGBTQIA+ rights. By gathering marginalised narratives and underrepresented artistic positions, we make a strong statement for diversity, inclusion and self-determination.
QMV has been the first museum in Vienna that offers all our exhibition entries, events and educational programs entirely for free. Keeping all of our program free of charge is a priority to us to provide low-threshold accessibility and to reach audiences regardless of their financial possibilities.
At the moment, we do not receive any permanent funding and our funding from public institutions is project-based. We put all our effort into running the museum and applying for permanent state funding, which might still take a while to be granted. In the meantime, we still have fixed costs to cover – these include our rent (~18.000€ per year) as well as equipment and resources needed for community-oriented events. The funding for our upcoming exhibitions, events and workshops is currently not yet certain. But QMV asserts that Queer art and culture need this space!
In order to keep providing the queer community and its allies with an interesting, diverse and relevant program, we created this gofundme so that we may ask for your help. The future of QMV is at the moment unsure and unstable, and we are very grateful for all the support we can get.
More information about our work:
Before moving into our own temporary space at Otto Wagner Areal, we have already curated and organised events and exhibitions at various places: Volkskundemuseum Wien, Belvedere21, in Depot, at art universities, art fairs and protests. Despite spotlight exhibitions in various spaces, no major institution in Vienna has so far devoted itself permanently and comprehensively to the subject, either in its collecting activities or in its exhibition practice. Our last exhibition was the first tin* (trans, inter, non-binary) only exhibition of Austria!