Research Focus Areas

Research at the Center for Museum Collections Management focuses on work on original objects. The research areas are derived from the collections of the Provincial Collections of Lower Austria and lie in the fields of art and cultural history, archaeology, natural history and conservation and restoration sciences.

Research topics are developed both comprehensively within the Centre and in close collaboration with other universities, non-university research institutions and museums on a national and international scale. The collections and research results are presented extensively to the public in scientific catalogues, lectures and publications, and also in exhibitions.
 

Ongoing Projects

Sammlungswissenschaftliche Erforschung des Naturalienkabinetts im niederösterreichischen Benediktinerstift Seitenstetten

Duration: 01/03/2025–28/02/2027
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Sandra Sam
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Capturing Archaeological Reality (CARe)

Duration: 01/10/2024–30/06/2026
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Sandra Sam
Funding: Bund (Ministerien)

HistoGenes. Integrating genetic, archaeological and historical perspectives on Eastern Central Europe, 400-900 AD

Duration: 01/05/2020–30/04/2026
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Elisabeth Nowotny
Funding: EU

United by crisis? A transdisciplinary look at the early Neolithic communities in the Schletz settlement cluster

Duration: 01/10/2022–30/09/2025
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Jakob Maurer
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Finished Projects

Steinzeitstream. Documentation of interdisciplinary research on the archaeological site of Asparn/Schletz

Duration: 01/09/2023–29/06/2024
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Jakob Maurer
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)

Mobile things, people and ideas - An ever moving history of Lower Austria

Duration: 01/02/2019–31/01/2022
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Sandra Sam
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)
Program: FTI Programm LNÖ

Interdisciplinary development of new methods for the digitalisation of archaeological finds in museum collections (study)

Duration: 01/11/2020–31/12/2021
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Jakob Maurer
Funding: Bund (Ministerien)

Archive for performance art? Dealing with archiving, transmitting and mediating artworks created through actions

Duration: 01/01/2019–31/12/2021
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Sandra Sam
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)
Program: nfb

I-CULT International Cultural Platform

Duration: 01/10/2017–30/06/2021
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Elisabeth Nowotny
Funding: EU
Program: INTERREG

Life and Work at the Bronze Age Mine of Prigglitz

Duration: 01/10/2017–30/09/2020
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Sandra Sam
Funding: FWF
Program: FWF