VIMU

VIMU , the virtual museum, is an online regional history museum of Schleswig-Holstein and southern Denmark for the period between 1830 and 2000. It is the first joint Danish - German and bilingual (Danish and German) history project on the Internet.

VIMU was founded in 2005. It was 50% financed from the INTERREG IIIa program of the European Regional Development Fund . VIMU has been online since 2008 . University institutions in the fields of history, didactics , information science and multimedia developed the virtual museum . It is interactive and multimedia. The Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History , which belongs to the University of Flensburg and is located in Schleswig , the Kiel University of Applied Sciences , the Institute of History and Civilization in Odense and the Institute for Fagsprog, Kommunikation og Informationsvidenskab in Kolding, were involved in the development .

From a cross-border perspective , VIMU brings you closer to the regional history of Schleswig-Holstein and southern Denmark from the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century. Danish-German relations are presented on the basis of six areas and 36 topics. The following areas were selected: borders , politics , society , economy , culture and the sea . The topics addressed include, for example, minorities in the years 1920 to 1955, politics in the region , migration , structural change in agriculture , Hans Christian Andersen as well as shipping and fishing .

VIMU is aimed at students , teachers , history buffs, local residents and tourists .

literature

• Astrid Schwabe: Historical learning on the World Wide Web: Search, stroll or research? Didactic and media conception, practical implementation and empirical evaluation of the regional historical website Vimu.info , V & R unipress , Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89971-996-3 .
• Martin Rheinheimer ; Mogen R. Nissen: The virtual museum www.vimu.info - German-Danish regional history on the Internet . In communications from the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 73 (2008), pp. 52–58.

Web links

• vimu.info , accessed January 14, 2020.
• Via vimu.info , accessed on January 14, 2020.
• Virtual Museum , accessed January 14, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt August 31, 2005, Living History of the Region on the Internet
2. ↑ Review by Martin Jander in the review journal Sehepunkte 2013.