Ephesos Museum
The Ephesos Museum—Ephesos-Museum—belongs to Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum and focuses on the ancient city of Ephesus (Έφεσος), now in modern-day Turkey. The story begins with archaeology: the Austrian Archaeological Institute has worked in the Ephesus ruins since 1895, with interruptions during the two world wars. A first major transfer followed Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s donation of archaeological findings to Emperor Franz Joseph I, and between 1896 and 1906 seven expeditions transported objects to Vienna. Before the museum opened in 1978, the collection moved around. Exhibits appeared in places including the Theseus Temple in the Volksgarten—an arrangement that was discontinued in 1911 because damage was caused—then returned there between 1934 and 1944. From 1947 until 1978, Ephesus sculptures were displayed in the Neue Burg’s colonnade, before the entire collection gained permanent rooms in the newly founded Ephesos Museum. …
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