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Artist meet-and-greet with circus legend Louis Knie Sr.

50 Years of Circus Roncalli: A Viennese Vision Conquers the World

To mark its 50th anniversary, the Circus & Clown Museum Vienna is dedicating an exhibition to this special chapter of Austrian circus history. It invites visitors to look back on five decades full of new beginnings, crises, fresh starts, poetry, and circus art.

Veröffentlichung unserer neuen Website

In July 2026, we were delighted to present our new website to the public. The entire team is overjoyed that our online presence has finally arrived in this millennium.

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.

Behind the Scenes: Work in the Photo Archive

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

Maestro Voronin Visits the Circus- & Clownmuseum Wien

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

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.

Off to Klagenfurt – and Why the World Needs Clowns

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

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

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

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

Vienna and Budapest Share Their Circus Treasures

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

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

The stars of Magic World Vienna visited our museum.

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

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