Welcome to the Vienna Ball of Sciences on January 24, 2026, at Vienna City Hall!
Update 16 November 2025: Due to extremely high demand, we have to suspend the sales of individual tickets (regular and for students); a few tables (including admission tickets) can still be booked in the webshop for the time being. Should any pre-reserved ticket allocations from our ball partners become available again by mid-December, we will reactivate the webshop. Please register for our newsletter if you would like to be informed when sales resume.
Over the coming weeks, the blog will feature program highlights as well as the Ball Ambassadors from science, culture, and society.
Again, we are planning several additional events: the Vienna Lecture on Science Communication on January 23 and the traditional ball gown swap on January 12. Up-to-date information can be found in our newsletter. Subscribe here.
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Looking back in joy: The best pictures of the 2025 ball and the video of the ball night!
See what the media and our guests say about the ball:
“We’re about diversity, openness and excellence.”
New York Times, 6 February 2018
“Vienna’s brightest ball”
Falter, 30 January 2019
“красивого та чарівного заходу” (A beautiful and magical event)
Mariia Mykhailova (Ukrainian Science Diaspora), 29 January 2024
“Fulbright Austria program participants from past and present enjoyed the Ball of Sciences tremendously! (These) moments in time create memories that will last a lifetime.”
Mitch Sims, Alumni Relations Manager, 27 January 2020
“One of Vienna’s highlights during the waltzing season, combining entertainment with an academic attitude.”
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (Vienna Bio Center), 29 January 2019
“This ball illustrates in a singularly Viennese fashion that Vienna has become the focal point of science in Central Europe“
Eric Kandel, Nobel laureate 2000 and guest of honor 2016
„What would Vienna be without its balls? Definitely not Vienna. Good that there is the science ball.“
Anton Zeilinger, Ball ambassador 2015 and Nobel laureate 2022
“The Science Ball is a gas, it brings the mad crowd of researchers, creativos, innovators and future-shapers together and inspires us all!”
Ce-M-M Research Center for Molecular Medicine (Vienna), 29 January 2019
“You can’t have a book about Vienna without mentioning the best ball in Vienna: the Science Ball”
Tova Marr, Author of “Melange a Trois: A Vienna Love Story”
“Thank you, again, for inviting me to this marvelous experience. It was surreal and lovely and one of the most memorable things to come out of my time at MFS. I can say with absolutely no authority that it was the best ball this season.”
Caroline Weinberg, co-organizer of the March for Science 2017
“The balls (…) are elegant, tacky, rarified, intimidating, democratic, elite, ironic, gorgeous, decadent, tiresome, astonishing; they are both political and apolitical, accessible and inaccessible, international and decidedly Viennese.”
Writer Jessi Jezewska Stevens on the ball season in Vienna and the Science Ball
“…a quintessentially Viennese experience of a lifetime.”
Political scientist Markéta Bajgerová Verly in “Avenue – The magazine for alumni and friends of the University of Glasgow”