The museum houses world-famous and unique artifacts, such as the 29,500-year-old Venus of Willendorf, the extinct Steller's sea cow, and massive dinosaur skeletons. Highlights across its 39 exhibit halls include the world's largest and oldest public collection of meteorites, featuring the spectacular “Tissint” meteorite from Mars, as well as a permanent anthropological exhibition on the origins and evolution of humans. The new prehistoric exhibit showcases the Venus Cabinet and the Gold Cabinet. The museum continues to evolve; to mark its 125th anniversary, a state-of-the-art Digital Planetarium was opened, offering full-dome projection technology that takes visitors on immersive virtual journeys to the edge of the Milky Way or Saturn’s rings. The museum is also a hub for scientific research, employing around 60 scientists who conduct fundamental research in earth sciences, life sciences, and human sciences. This makes it a key public institution and one of Austria's largest non-university research centers.