Museum 1915-18

Museum 1915–18, the entrance area of ​​the museum

Residential barrack

The Museum 1915-18 is an anti-war museum in the town hall in the market town of Kötschach-Mauthen in Carinthia . The museum of the Association of Friends of the Dolomites documents the mountain war of 1915–1918 in the First World War between Austria-Hungary and Italy .

museum

The senselessness of war is shown on over 600 m² with numerous historical photos, documents, finds and exhibits, as well as replicas of alpine positions. The museum offers facilities for the disabled, a children's play area and educational programs for school classes. As a reminder for peace in Europe, the museum documents the front from the Ortler to the Isonzo and the history of the world war based on the fate of simple soldiers and the civilian population on both sides.

Special exhibitions

• 1999 From the carrier pigeon to radio telegraphy.
• 2000 The Danube . A river makes history.
• 2001 A regiment moved ... tin figures in the emperor's skirt, the Austro-Hungarian army around 1900.
• 2002 Technology - Mountains - Pioneers. The funicular at the Frondell Alm .
• 2003 Carinthian border fortifications. Bulwarks through centuries.
• 2004 connection established.
• 2004 Three Places - One Fate. Monfalcone - Kötschach-Mauthen - Przasnysz .
• 2005 The road over the Passo San Boldo .
• 2005 war on the wall.
• 2006 To fly to the limit.
• 2008 Neither war nor peace.
• 2009 On the Austrian border.
• 2010 The Bosniaks arrive.
• 2011 women at war.
• 2012 Meeting Point Friedenswege.
• 2013 comrade on 4 paws.
• 2014 1914 - The beginning of the end.
• 2015 Art in War - War in Art.
• 2017 In the ports of Austria-Hungary.
• 2018 Piave - the flow of fate of the monarchy.
• 2020 Galicia 1914–1917, soldiers' lives behind the front.

management

• 1992-2004 Walther Schaumann

Plöckenpass-Kleiner Pal open-air museum

Little Pal

Peace trails in the Plöckenpass area near the Kleiner Pal : Since 1973 the impassable front paths have been repaired by friends of the Dolomites and made accessible to the general public as an open-air museum of the mountain war 1915–1917 with fortifications, barracks, tunnels and sentries.

Awards

• 1993 Austrian Museum Prize
• 1996 Protection of cultural property
• 2012 Austrian Museum Seal of Approval

Web links

Commons : Museum 1915–18  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Museum website 1915–18

Individual evidence

1. ^ Special exhibition 2015 Art in War - War in Art
2. ^ Archive Museum: Special exhibitions. Retrieved June 22, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E