WIEN MUSEUM PUB QUIZ with Christine and Eugene - VIENNA REMIXED in English

Vienna has always been a crossroads in Europe. Originally created by Romans and Celts, it has sported Turkish baths and Kosher restaurants, American diners and Balkan clubs. Without migration, Vienna would not be what it is today. Host Eugene, too, is a part of this story of continual refreshment, challenges of language and culture, new food, music and ideas.

Join us for a night of diversity in our quiz, ranging from Conchita to colour, dialects to cuisine, noise to religion. This time in English, to open up to a more diverse audience. Come and be surprised by our celebration of inclusion and what makes our city special.

#weRemixVienna

Teams of six, so find some friends and colleagues with varied city knowledge. Singles welcome and then we find you some fellow Quizzers. Challenging, funny questions, relevant prizes, and you go home with some new insights into your home town. Visiting the exhibition „Mixed. Diverse Stories“ gives you an advantage.

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Postcard and advertisement of the 1st original African restaurant in Vienna, 1904, Photo: TimTom, Wien Museum

In September 2023, Whoosh staged the Austrian Citizenship Test in a pub quiz format, for Vienna Design Week, all over Leopoldstadt. But never in a pub - instead Magdas Hotel, Fluc, Sigmund Freud Gymnasium, Central Garden, Mustafa's Cafe Gärtner & a SPÖ pensioners' club. Christine Koblitz, responsible for Wien Museum's social media & engagement, saw potential to adapt the concept for her museum, and so we sat and developed the idea of a Vienna-focused 2 hour quiz, with beer, up on the roof of the museum, which you can see in the image below.

We are honoured to cooperate once again with Wien Museum, our excellent, critical, humorous city museum. We have combined with this mighty institution for twelve years now, starting with the first ever Tischgespräche in April 2012, followed by six tours: Russian Wien, all of Otto Wagner on his birthday (12 hour tour), Ten Gemeindebauten from ten Decades, in Floridsdorf (for the 100 years of Rotes Wien expo), Gumpendorferstrasse's psychogeography & creative networks, the best spots for people-watching in Vienna, as part of the Street Photography exhibition, and last spring, a tour of the atmosphere in Vienna in 1923, as part of the Bauhaus exhibition.

The pub quiz is monthly, with cool prizes, and a focus on current exhibitions in the museum, plus music, politics, history, architecture, city living, celebrities, food, literature, and whatever is happening in the city at the time. You do not need to come with a whole team, but can join with others spontaneously, to form your own team. Tell your friends about our experiment.

Pub comes from the English legal term of a public house - a communal drinking space. In Georgian Britain, it was not permitted to drink privately. Quiz is a word out of British English also, meaning to ask questions. After our first quiz in September, about Democracy, our second edition was focused on food and drink rituals in the city, and our third theme last month was winter rituals, from Krampus to Dinner for One. As with all Whoosh events, we hope participants come for the entertainment factor, but leave with new ideas and knowledge.

Keep an eye on the Wien Museum website to hear about our February theme.

Presented by Christine and Eugene. Register here.

Text for the new exhibition: "Diversität – die DNA der Stadt. Seit Jahrhunderten ist Wien ein Ort, wo Sprachen und Traditionen, Geschlechter, Kulturen und Utopien verhandelt und vermischt werden. Abseits des Klischees der friedvollen Hauptstadt eines Vielvölkerreiches, deren Zusammensetzung sich noch heute aus dem Telefonbuch ablesen lässt, folgt „Mixed“ neuen Pfaden.
48 Geschichten erzählen von der Vielfalt der Stadt aus ungewöhnlichen Perspektiven: Von den chinesischen Restaurants der Zwischenkriegszeit, von der Mönchskongregation, die Wien zu einer Hochburg der armenischen Sprachforschung machte oder von Protesten politisch engagierter afrikanischer Studierender in den 1960er Jahren. Und von ihren Gegnern, von den Befürwortern der „deutschen Stadt Wien“ im 19. Jahrhundert, den Vordenkern des Nationalsozialismus und den populistischen Pressediskursen der nahen Vergangenheit.
Wörter, Orte, Körper, Moden – worin zeigt sich Diversität, wo in der Stadt nimmt sie Raum ein, wann führt sie zu Konflikten? Es sind Erzählungen über den Druck zur Assimilation, das enge Korsett „Identität“, aber auch über Widerstand und Resilienz gegenüber Ausgrenzung und Verfolgung. Jede Geschichte steht für sich, ihrer Gesamtheit entwirft ein Panorama der Diversität als Motor der modernen Metropole.

Do, 5. Dezember 2024 – So, 20. April 2025
Wien Museum, Karlsplatz 8, 1040 Wien"

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