The Museum ERLAUF ERINNERT (Erlauf recorda) was inaugurated last May 9th, – exactly 70 years after, and in the exact emplacement, of the reencounter of two Second World War generals, one Soviet and one American—
In an area of 250m2, large walls illustrated with documents, photographs and objects, showcase the circumstances of the encounter, from a local point of view: from the annextion and entry of Hitler’s troops and the expropiation and prosecution of local town’s Jewish families, to those resisting and those who fought and died as soldiers, feauturing the changes in the collective memory of Austrians –from a first declaration as victims, to the consciousness of facts that bear a shared-responsibility critic over Nazi crimes.
The concept and realization of this museum has been developed in four years. Uli Marchsteiner, designer, curator and professor at EINA, has been in charge of the visualtization, museum’s adaptation and visual corporate identity of the project, together with two other comissioners: an experts committee on the infographics of historical events and the department of culture and public art of the Lower Austrian government (KIÖR). This museum is a living center for temporary activities and artistic interventions and its approach between local history, culture and artistic interventions reports, represents a new and unique museum model in Europe.
