In order to confine ourselves in the exhibition to a(representative)narrative focusing essentially on the Volkskundemuseum Wien, itsvarious protagonists and the provenance of its objects, we decidedto show only original items from the museum’s holdings. The entriesin the inventories and records of provenance were compared to otherarchive material and publications(for example theZeitschrift füröster-reichische Volkskunde, founded in 1894 at the same time and by thesame people as the museum itself), to identify cross-references andother links. Additional contextualising material from other institutions,such as newspaper cuttings or pictures, are shown exclusively asreproductions or in media stations.The exhibition narrative evolves along five chapters that place theVolkskundemuseum Wien in the context of higher-level or parallelsocial, political and legal processes. We defined five types of text ofvarious lengths and content to suit visitors with different levels of priorknowledge about, and interest in, the topic. There are texts about thesubject matter and the individual sections, object labels, informationtexts and the general introductory text. Apart from the object labels,all texts are presented in the same graphic design in German andEnglish.Our target group was, in addition to the constant audience of theVolkskundemuseum Wien, historically interested visitors, people whoare professionally involved in provenance research and restitutionor are interested in the collections and the history of the museumand the subject of ethnography, overlapping with this, or additionally,people who have never dealt with this topic before and want to knowsomething about it.Several aspects were important to us in the concrete realizationof the exhibition, which subsequently led to fundamental settings.The decision to show all 550 objects in the Mautner Collectionaffected not only the exhibition architecture or the physical spacerequirements. We also realised that the relationship in the differentsections between original objects, info graphics and media stationswould vary. The sections devoted to the history of the Volkskunde-museum Wien and its holdings include a large number of originalobjects. Other formats were required for the sections on the historyand implementation of the Art Restitution Act and Nazi provenance14