University Museums

The museums of the University of Graz include two museum collections called “Hans Gross Museum of Criminology” and the “UniGraz@Museum”.

Hans Gross founded the worldwide first Institute of Criminology at university level in the year 1912. Part of this institute was the Museum of Criminology. More than 3.000 objects, for example corpora delicti, investigation equipment, microscopes, photographs, weapons and thrilling criminal cases dating from ca. 1880 to 1960 are presented in the museum, a unique collection in this field in Europe.

The Museum of Criminology

The Institute of Physics owns an outstanding collection of historical objects, such as original physical instruments and demonstration apparatuses. Of special importance are numerous instruments dated in the 19^th and 20^th century. This was the time when Ernst Mach, Ludwig Boltzmann, August Toepler, Alfred Wegener, Adolf Smekal and the Nobel Prize winners Viktor Franz Hess and Erwin Schrödinger operated at the Institute of Physics.

UniGraz@Museum

As a part of the project “Repository of Styrian cultural heritage” the collection of the Hans Gross Museum of Criminology was documented, annotated and digitized. This process accorded to professional museological and scientific principles and made available this unique collection for international scientific research.

Virtual collection