Michaela Feurstein & Gerhard Milchram

13:30 Workshop 3 September 1999

The Jewish Museum as Authority of Memory

Everywhere in the world, Jewish museums have been assigned the task of preserving memory. Yet does the intitutionalization of memory guarantee remembrance?

Gerhard Milchram, born 1962, studies of History, Journalism and Communications in Vienna, since 1995 research projects for the Institute for the History of the Jews in Austria, since 1997 curator at the Jewish Museum in Vienna. Exhibitions: 1848-The Fatal Revolution (1998); together with Oz Almog: E.M. Lilien: Art Noveau – Zionism – Erotics (1999 Vienna and Braunschweig). Coordinator of the Jewish Museum of the project "Judenplatz". Forthcoming (together with Tina Walzer): Guide to Jewish Vienna (1999)