The Ephesos Museum in Vienna 1978-2018: Narratives and Concept in an Imperial Setting Master Thesis Jasmin Hangartner S2270250
[email protected] Specialization: Arts and Culture - Museum and Collection Studies 2018-2019 First reader: Dr. Mirjam Hoijtink Second reader: Dr. Seyed Abolfazl Shobeiri Word count: 17814 i Foreword and Acknowledgments I chose to write my master thesis about the Ephesos Museum in Vienna because I studied Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and in 2016 I participated in the excavations in Ephesos led by the Austrian Archaeological Institute. This experience, which was intensified by two other excava- tions at the Lycian site Limyra in Turkey, has sparked my interest in archaeological artifacts from Tur- key exhibited in Austria. I thought it very interesting that Austrian archaeological research to this day is so strongly intertwined with these antique sites in the Eastern Mediterranean and wanted to know more about how this research started. I would like to thank my supervisor Dr. Mirjam Hoijtink for broadening my view on the relations be- tween the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empire and leading me to incorporate topics into my thesis that I would have overlooked otherwise. I would also like to thank the team of the antiquities collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Especially the director Dr. Georg Plattner, the curators Dr. Manuela Laubenberger and Mag. Karoline Zhuber-Okrog and conservator Mag. Marko Prskalo for taking the time for interviews and providing me with valuable information. I would also like to thank Stephanie Stoss for the information about the educational program in the museum.