Not Born Here: Tour & Dinner @ the MAK

(cue drum roll please!) A guided MAK tour and dinner with strangers not born here - exploring Vienna through design, and how to design a life in this city
This is an experience custom-made for internationals in Vienna: a night to get to know the city through the design of its everyday objects, then sit down for dinner with other people trying to design a life in a city they weren’t born in.
Together with the MAK, Vienna Würstelstand is taking Vienna’s international and internationally-minded crowd through the exhibition WIEN 1900 – Alltag. Gesamtkunstwerk - a guided cultural experience exploring Vienna around 1900 through design, everyday life, the Wiener Werkstätte, Secession-era ideas, and the very Viennese concept of turning life itself into a total work of art. Casual stuff, obviously.
We thought it would be interesting to look at Vienna not through the usual “pretty buildings, imperial drama, Sisi again” lens, but through the things people actually lived with: chairs, interiors, coffee rituals, craft, ornament, and all the objects that shaped daily life.
Because Vienna is a city made of designed rituals. And for those of us who live here but didn’t grow up here, understanding those rituals can be baffling.
After the tour, we’ll sit down for dinner and talk about the other kind of design: how we design our own lives here.
The routines we’re building, the homes we miss, the friendships we’re trying to make, and the occasional feeling that we’re all cosplaying as functioning locals.
This is museum tour meets dinner club meets the Not Born Here community.
It’s not 'look at pretty things in a museum and then politely vanish into the U-Bahn.'
It’s a night for people who live in Vienna, love it, question it daily, and want to meet others doing the same - one beautiful object and slightly awkward dinner conversation at a time.
Meeting point: the big and beautiful MAK lobby
Please arrive: 15 minutes before the listed start time
Important note: Your ticket does not include the cost of dinner & drinks. Dinner and drinks will be paid separately on the night.
Muy importante: your ticket helps cover the cost of making this event happen, and supports the Vienna Würstelstand community we’re building — both offline and online.