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This was announced by Secretary of State for Art and Culture Andrea Mayer (Greens) in a broadcast on Friday. The new five-year term of office of the museum manager, who took over the house in Vienna-Penzing in 2020, begins on January 1, 2025. Aufreiter prevailed in the tender from a total of six applicants.
“Since taking office, Peter Aufreiter has made important and exciting contributions to the Technisches Museum Wien. I am convinced that he is the right person for the next term of office from 2025 to 2030 to continue to lead the museum into the future,” Mayer said in the broadcast quoted. The house performs an “important task at the interface between art, technology and business”. Aufreiter has proven that under his leadership the TMW “operates at the cutting edge”.
According to the ministry, four people from Germany and two people from abroad had tried to manage the association, which also includes the Austrian media library. According to the ministry, only one woman was among them. Three people were subsequently invited to the hearings by the selection committee.
The Upper Austrian, who had switched to the TMW from his position as director of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino (Italy) at the beginning of his work in Vienna, announced shortly after the advertisement in April that he was trying to get an extension. He is now “very happy about the contract extension and the confidence that comes with it to continue on the successful path we have taken”. The 48-year-old referred to the recent positive developments in visitor numbers.
The “timely extension” now gives the “necessary planning security to tackle the coming challenges together with the entire team,” says Aufreiter, who cites “current socio-political issues such as the energy transition, climate change or digitization” as priorities.
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