The building designed by Isidor Canevale for the "Medical-Surgical Joseph's Academy" very soon became known as the Josephinum. Today it houses the adminstration and a large part of the Medical University of Vienna, the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Medical University of Vienna as well as the Kurt Gödel Research Centre. "The Josephinum" is a meeting place and to a certain extent, the historical gate to the Medical University of Vienna.
Based on the long history of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna - founded in 1365 -, its successor, the Medical University of Vienna, hosts a rich and extensive cultural heritage. It is our goal to preserve this heritage, to index it and make it available. Thus the century long efforts involved in medical knowledge are documented, but also the ties of medicine to the framing social conditions and the resultant often problematic effects.
The Medical University of Vienna understands this as one of its obligations towards society.
