Befreiungsmuseum Wien

The district museum Alsergrund and a school in the vicinity, with the help of many others, make a site of remembrance accessible to the public. Students, passing on knowhow from one generation to the next, work at how contemporary history – more concretely Vienna’s liberation from National Socialism – can be conveyed memorably – to themselves, to young and old Vienna inhabitants, to people from countries that liberated Vienna, and to all others. At the same time, they learn how to develop and manage a project together, how to approach people, how to speak in front of an audience, how to work in a team, how to master difficulties. What an innovative mixture of project-oriented pedagogics and a public history class!