The mumok collection of classical modernism was established by Werner Hofmann as an exemplary selection of works from the first half of the twentieth century, and it now includes the most significant movements and artists of these years
Besides classical modernism, the mumok collection focuses on pop art, nouveau réalisme, Fluxus, and conceptual art, post minimal and arte povera, all standing for the avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s.
As an international competence center for Vienna Actionism mumok not only holds significant works by the Viennese actionists but also contemporary documentary materials and numerous recordings, notebooks, action photos, sketches, and correspondence
mumok continues to expand and intensify its collection focus on reality-based, socially and institutionally critical and analytical art of the 1960s and 1970s with contemporary works by Austrian and international artists
