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Commemorative years and anniversaries

Recurring remembrance in museums and memorials

20.11. - 21.11.2025

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Date

20.11. - 21.11.2025

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum, Linz

Meeting point

Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz (AT)

Costs

200 €, reduced fee 150 € (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)

External registration

Please register via e-mail.

 

Contact

+43-664/8017-9537

museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

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About the
Event

Anniversaries and commemorative years are central elements of the culture of remembrance. They mobilise visitors and attract public attention. In 2025, many museums and memorials are commemorating the liberation from National Socialism. This focus shows that memory depends on the present and can change: The year 1945 has only recently been officially commemorated as the ‘liberation’ in German-speaking countries. Exhibitions and projects such as 'Sehnsucht Frieden (A Longing for Peace)' at Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz or 'Liberation Objects!' at Mauthausen Memorial also illustrate the national and future-oriented demand for recurring commemorative events. We will take a close look at museum activities in 'Commemorative Year 2025': In addition to a survey of content focuses, dominant perspectives, and selected exhibition and communication approaches, we will explore how museums deal with competing memories and what present and future meanings are derived from the selected narratives. Based on this, we will reflect fundamentally on the role of anniversaries and commemorative days in museum practice: What contribution can cyclical remembrance make to promoting a critical awareness of history? How can synergies between institutions be utilised? And when does it make sense to forego holding exhibitions on anniversaries?


In cooperation with
Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz and KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen

With

Andrea Bina Director of the Nordico City Museum Linz (AT)
Markus Drüding History teacher/senior teacher, Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg (DE)
Barbara Glück Director of the Mauthausen Memorial (AT)
Edith Hessenberger Managing Director of the Ötztal Museums, Längenfeld (AT)
Renate Höllwart Art and culture mediator (trafo.K office), Vienna (AT)
Cornelia Kogoj Secretary General of the Minority Initiative and curator, Vienna (AT)
Ralf Lechner Head of Collections, Mauthausen Memorial (AT)
Simon Nagy Artist and mediator (trafo.K office), Vienna (AT)
Sebastian Piringer Research assistant at the Nordico City Museum Linz (AT)
Ljiljana Radonić Political scientist, deputy director of the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (AT)
Karin Schneider Head of Art Education at the Museums of the City of Linz – Lentos Art Museum and Nordico City Museum, Linz (AT)
Nathalie Soursos Curatorial and Exhibitions Assistant, Mauthausen Memorial, Vienna (AT)
Doris Warlitsch Collections Assistant, Mauthausen Memorial, Vienna (AT)
Marlene Wöckinger Education staff member at the Mauthausen Memorial (AT)
Johanna Zechner Curator at the Vienna Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, Vienna (AT)
Martina Zerovnik Cultural scientist, curator, museum planner, Vienna (AT)

 

Organisers of the workshop

Anna Jungmayr management team, Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz/Vienna (AT)
Laura Langeder exhibitions and curation, Mauthausen Memorial, Vienna (AT)