Contemporary history museum Ebensee
The Contemporary History Museum Ebensee is a regional historical museum in the market town of Ebensee in the Austrian state of Upper Austria . It deals with the political history of the Salzkammergut between 1918 and 1955.
history
In Ebensee was during the Nazi period of a satellite camp Mauthausen concentration camp between November 1943 and May 1945, the Ebensee concentration camp . In post-war Austria and the first decades of the Second Republic , parts of the camp buildings were gradually removed. In 1988 the "Resistance Museum Association" was founded in Ebensee. His goal was to found a contemporary history museum in the village in order to wrest this section of local and regional history from oblivion. In addition, the resistance to National Socialism should be documented. In 1994 the association commissioned the historian Ulrike Felber and the architect Bernhard Denkinger (Office for Architecture and Applied History) to create an exhibition concept, which was realized from 1994 to 2001 - in collaboration with the future museum director Wolfgang Quatember. The "Resistance Museum Association" renamed itself in 2001 to the "Association of Contemporary History Museum and Ebensee Concentration Camp Memorial". In March 2001 the "Contemporary History Museum Ebensee" was opened in a former school building from 1799 in the center of the village next to the Catholic parish church. Thanks to the city partnership with the Italian city of Prato, there is close cooperation with the Museo della Deportazione there .
exhibition
The permanent exhibition is divided into the periods of the First Republic from 1918 to 1934, the period of Austrofascism until 1938, the period of Austria in the Third Reich and the period of the Allied occupation until 1955. The exhibition shows, for example, the rise of the NSDAP , provides information about forced labor in the Jewish camp in Traunkirchen , presents the biographies of resistance members on the basis of text and audio documents as well as photos and provides an insight into the history of the Ebensee concentration camp.
Publications
- Ulrike Felber, Wolfgang Quatember: Exhibition Catalog Contemporary History Museum: Republic - Estates - National Socialism - Resistance - Persecution . Publisher: Zeitgeschichte Museum Ebensee, 234 pages, ISBN 978-3950066326 .
- Judith Eiblmayer: Two tunnels in the interior of Austria. June 2, 2001, Die Presse - Spectrum
- Wolfgang Gebertsroither, Walter Werschnig, Kurt Ziegler: Summer freshness, examples of new architecture in the Salzkammergut. Edited by the Central Association of Architects - Regional Association of Upper Austria, Verlag Anton Pustet, 2008
- Marie Magdalena Rest: The Contemporary History Museum and the gallery exhibition in Ebensee. In: Exhibiting contemporary history in Austria. Museums - memorials - exhibitions. Edited by Dirk Rupnow and Heidemarie Uhl. Böhlau Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78531-6 .
- The “Association of Contemporary History Museum and Concentration Camp Memorial” has been publishing two issues of the magazine “Matters Resistance” every year since 1988. She publishes articles on the recent history of the Salzkammergut.
Events
The museum building is used for events such as workshops and readings, lectures and conferences. In addition to function rooms, it has a library, an archive, a cafeteria and a bookshop.
Web links
- Website of the contemporary history museum Ebensee
- For the conception of the exhibition architecture: Homepage Bernhard Denkinger Architect
Individual evidence
- ↑ Judith Eiblmayr: Two tunnels inside Austria on the nextroom architecture database
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 47.39 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 18.1" E