Ves Anderson and the Mouse Coffin

Cult director Wes Anderson (“Hotel Grand Budapest”, “Darjeeling Train”, “The Tenenbaum Family”) loves traveling by train around Europe. And he has a passion for antiques. Therefore, he gladly accepted an invitation from the Vienna Museum of Art History, together with his partner, costume designer and designer Juman Malouf, to rummage through the museum’s collection to create a unique exhibition. Within two years, they reviewed more than four million paintings, art objects and works in the museum’s repositories and selected their favorites. The result of their work was the exhibition, which is somewhat different from what visitors of the Museum of Art History are used to.

Drama, worthy of film adaptation

The exhibition “Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and other Treasures” presents more than 400 unusual objects, many of which are exhibited for the first time. Among them – along with the coffin of the mouse-shrews, which is the basis for the name – ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiques, paintings by ancient masters, a selection of objects from Kunstkamera and the Treasury, the theater museum and from Ambras castle near Innsbruck. Anyway, the selection of these treasures allows you to feel the incredible abundance and richness, history and versatility of the collections of the Museum of Art History.

Source: https://www.wien.info/ru/sightseeing/museums-exhibitions/wes-anderson-khm