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On the day exactly ten years ago, on October 25, 2013, the Stollen of Remembrance was opened in Steyr. The Mauthausen Committee had worked on preparing this project for ten years. On the following national holiday, 1,200 premiere guests visited the new exhibition. The Gallery of Remembrance has now become an integral part of the museum landscape. 25,000 people have visited the Tunnel of Remembrance since it opened.
94 tours took place in 2022 alone. The exhibition in the 140 meter long tunnel complex, curated by Regina Wonisch and architecturally designed by Bernhard Denkinger, has received several awards: the Austrian Museum Prize in 2014, the Hans Marsalek Prize in 2015 and the German Design Award in 2016. In 2018, the Stollen of Remembrance was the only project from Austria to be included in the book “spaces of culture and art”, which features more than 48 top architectural projects from around the world. With the tunnel of memory be “a milestone has been set against forgetting”said initiator Karl Ramsmaier from the Steyr Mauthausen Committee back in the day at the opening.
The exhibition “Forced labor and concentration camps in Steyr” is designed in such a way that you enter the narrow tunnel in 1938 and come out of the tunnel again when it was liberated in 1945. The Lambergstollen, as it was originally called, was not used for industrial purposes, but as an air raid shelter for the civilian population. “It was important to us that we focus on the fate of concentration camp prisoners and forced laborers”says Ramsmaier. For this purpose, photos, documents and contemporary witness reports were collected over many years. Objects such as original spoons from the Münichholz subcamp can also be seen.
The stations “Resistance” and “Human rights” at the end of the exhibition establish a connection to the present. Topics that are highly topical given the global political situation.
The celebration will take place today, Wednesday, at 7 p.m. in the Working World Museum “10 years of memories” instead of. The Steyr writer Erich Hackl will give the keynote speech. The music for the celebration will be provided by the Lamberg Ensemble. Please register: registration@museumarbeitswelt.at
On the national holiday there is an open day in the Stollen of Remembrance with free entry.
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