7 January 2022

Free exhibition tours powered by Wiener Netze at the Vienna Museum of Technology with focus on women in science & research

The registration for the 'Patente Frauen' tours which can be attended for free thanks to Wiener Netze on 14 January and 21 January 2002 is already possible at technischesmuseum.at/event/patente_frauen! Wiener Netze is Austria's largest combined network operator (electricity, gas, district heating, telecommunications). The network belongs to the Wiener Stadtwerke which are 100% owned by the City of Vienna. In other words: The Wiener Netze are owned by the Austrian population.

Image: At the picture, Executive City Councilor for Finance, Economy, Labor, International Affairs and the Wiener Stadtwerke Peter Hanke is holding the banner with the logo of Wiener Netze. Right beside him, Wiener Netze CEO Thomas Maderbacher, at the left, Vienna Museum of Technology COO Karin Skarek and the Director of the Vienna Museum of Technology Peter Aufreiter. Photo: © PID / Bohmann.

Supporting women to step into the fields of science and research is one of the main topics of the political agenda in Vienna. The 'powered by Wiener Netze'-tours are a chance to learn about the impact women have in constructing our world like Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky whose design of the Frankfurter Kitchen was a groundbreaking concept for home furnishing, French physicist Marie Curie whose findings, keyword radioactivity, revolutionized medicine, or English mathematician Ada Lovelace who is considered the first programmer.

Audio tip (in German): Podcast by Wiener Netze about gender biases in our society and the curation of the gallery 'Patente Frauen' at the Vienna Museum of Technology at blog.wienernetze.at/16-fokus-forschung-das-bewirken-frauen-in-der-technik/.