Cultural studies specialist and curator; exhibitions for the Jewish Museum Vienna, Frauenmuseum Hittisau et al.; 2008–17 for the Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art in Vienna and editor of Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde; since 2014 curator in the team for a new Austrian exhibition in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum; 2017–19 curator in the House of Austrian History; since 2019 curator in the Folk Life Museum in Graz – Universalmuseum Joanneum; research and publications on everyday life and persecution in the Third Reich, material culture, museum history and history of folk life knowledge and science; conception and collaboration in remembrance culture initiatives.
Arthur Haberlandt studied anthropology, ethnology and prehistory at the University of Vienna, obtained his doctorate in 1911 and habilitated in 1914 with a paper on the drinking water supply of primitive peoples.