ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the method of pictorial statistics was developed within the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum for organizing and knowledge. It indicates how the method was appropriated for museums, lexicons and encyclopaedias and in the process of cartography. The development and the success of Otto Neurath pictorial statistics were deeply embedded in the political and cultural history of Vienna in the interwar period, in what is referred to as 'Red Vienna'. To be more precise: Neurath's method was used to convince the workers of Vienna of the value of the reforms in housing, health care and education pushed forward by the Austrian Social Democrats who had come to power after the First World War. The development of Neurath's method is deeply comiected with a number of organizations in which he was active. Generally speaking, it can be seen as an outcome of Red Vienna's housing and settlement movement of the early 1920s.
