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History 6 min Read time

Vienna and Budapest Share Their Circus Treasures

During the historic artifact exchange with Budapest, circus treasures return to where they came from

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CCM Journal

Flea market 3 min Read time

Circus Flea Market at the Museum: 240 Collectors on a Treasure Hunt

Rare posters and program booklets changed hands at the Circus & Clown Museum's big flea market.

Archive Work 2 min Read time

Behind the Scenes: Work in the Photo Archive

Aerial acrobatics, handstands, lost tricks: Historian Christoph Enzinger brings order to thousands of circus photos

Visit of the Month 3 min Read time

Maestro Voronin Visits the Circus- & Clownmuseum Wien

Illusionist Evgeniy Voronin and magician Aurore Mourgues browsed through posters, costumes and magic manuscripts...

History 8 min Read time

Artists' Round Table: Charles Elkins Tells Circus History

Four years, a saxophone, a white lie: How Freddy Quinn joined Circus Gschwandner – and with him, a story that reaches from a Viennese wine tavern to the Burgtheater.

Knowledge 4 min Read time

Off to Klagenfurt – and Why the World Needs Clowns

Why being a clown is not a mask, but an attitude.

Animals 3 min Read time

Not a Klimt, but a Kimba: When Elephants Paint...

An elephant as an artist? The museum displays an original by Hungary’s elephant Kimba

History 5 min Read time

The Alexis Family – A Hilarious Clown Dynasty

Tony Alexis visits our museum and tells the story of how a clown family became a living legend

History 6 min Read time

Vienna and Budapest Share Their Circus Treasures

During the historic artifact exchange with Budapest, circus treasures return to where they came from

Personalities 7 min Read time

Jeff McBride, David Kaplan and a Special Kind of Magic at the Circus- & Clownmuseum Wien

The stars of Magic World Vienna visited our museum.

History 8 min Read time

Artists' Round Table with Erich Brenn

Erich Brenn: 860 grams of porcelain, 4,000 shows in Las Vegas and a Porsche instead of a caravan

History 6 min Read time

The Incredible Journey of the Fercos Brothers

From the Russian Swing behind the Iron Curtain to the Las Vegas Strip – and then to the Vienna Prater