Museum of Perception and Samadhi Tank

Name: Museum of Perception and Samadhi Tank
Address: Friedrichgasse 41, Graz, Graz - Region Graz, 8010, AT
Telephone: +43 316 811599

Graz

Experience art, question your senses, and float weightlessly in salt water.

The Museum der Wahrnehmung (museum of perception) MUWA combines artistic perception installations and the unique Samadhi bath in historic architecture. Housed in the octagonal former public bath built in 1904, it offers an interactive experience beyond ordinary museums. The permanent collection invites touching, experimenting, and philosophically questioning one’s own sensory perception.

The Samadhi bath was established in 1999 as a salt deprivation tank, a floating tank in complete darkness with a highly concentrated salt bath, where all external stimuli are turned off. The fully isolated, homogeneously light blue capsule creates the sensation of floating in a space pod, while time and space seem to disappear. A session lasts about 1½ hours and requires a prior appointment since the bath is used only by one person at a time.

In the MUWA, the upper floor presents several exhibitions annually in the field of constructive art, supplemented by workshops, concerts, and learning events that understand perception as an experimental field of action. Visitors experience a rare combination: modern art perception installations and a physical-sensory depth experience in the Samadhi bath.