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DOI 10.60531/INSIGHTOUT.2024.2.2| AUFREITER: VORWORT_ INSIGHTOUT 2(2024) 5 Foreword Peter Aufreiter Director General and Scientific Management Following the successful launch of insightOut. Journal on Gender and Sexuality in STEM Collections and Cultures, it gives us great pleasure to announce the publication of this second, even more extensive and diverse issue. It features the papers presented at the third Vienna Workshop on Gender and Sexuality in STEM Collections, which once again brought together international academics from various disciplines at the Technisches Museum Wien for lectures, discussions, workshops and exchanges in September 2023. This time, the emphasis was on a topic from the fields of technology and science studies that is not to be underestimated, namely infrastructures. go to all our colleagues for their commitment to the mission of the Technisches Museum Wien. These systems and networks – in the form of transport links, water and energy supply systems, and communication networks – are not just an ever-present subject matter of technology research and a topic featured in many of the Museum’s exhibitions. From 2022 to 2024, the‘Colonial Infrastructures’ research project was dedicated to colonial infrastructure projects with Austrian involvement, in the context of the Museum’s own archive inventories. 1 The Museum also sees itself as a networking platform and is part of a network of diverse academic partners from the university and non-university sector. The Museum’s entire staff is also called upon when it comes to networking among themselves and placing gender-conscious action at the centre of their work within the Museum context. For more than five years now, the Gender Focus cross-departmental working group has been the main interface for the co-ordination of these efforts. My special thanks therefore 1 Since 2020 the Technisches Museum Wien has been conducting research into its collection and archive inventories from a colonial acquisition context, see https://www.technischesmuseum.at/museum/forschungsinstitut/das_museum_im_kolonialen_kontext(accessed 16 Jul. 2024)