HR | Marija Bistrica – A place of pilgrimage goes online

Marija Bistrica’s Topotheque was opened this summer. She will deal with the history of this national Marian shrine from 1715. The tradition of pilgrimage has endured since the discovery of the miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary in 1648 and since then millions of people have […]

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SK | Bratislava-Vienna The Topotheque departs

The recently launched Topothek Pressburgerbahn is the first cross-border topotheque. It is run by the Association of Friends of Urban and Regional Public Transport (Klub priateľov mestskej hromadnej a regionálnej dopravy) in Bratislava, which deals with the rescue and restauration […]

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FI | Finnish Topotheques have over 15 000 objects

Finland has already 14 Topotheques. The largest of them is Ylöjärvi’s Topotheque which already has almost 7000 images, documents, videos and audio files. In the second size groups are the Topotheques of Säkylä, Hailuoto and Suodenniemi which each have between […]

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HU | Fehérvárcsurgó: Topotheque online

Now a Topotheque in Hungary, namely Fehérvárcsurgó, has gone online. This Hungarian municipality is located in the Fejér county in the north of the city of Székesfehérvár on the road to Győr. A landmark of the community is the Karoly Castle, which is presented to visitors […]

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HR | Zagreb Workshop without ticket

We held another virtual workshop for Topothequers in Croatia and Serbia on June 30 in Croatian and English. Vlatka Lemić, ICARUS Croatia and Alexander Schatek answered the questions of those who have been working on a Topotheque in Croatia or Serbia for some […]

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A – NÖ | Prinzersdorf Regional Meeting

Just as people used to be mobile in the past, so too must the Topotheques and should be their Topothequers, because local history extends beyond the municipal boundaries. In order to exchange experiences and to discuss common standards in connotation, 12 Topothequers […]

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A – NÖ | Wiener Neustadt Celebrating 5,000 entries

With a meeting in the city archives of Wiener Neustadt, the city‘s Topotheque celebrated the “anniversary” picture together with the deputy mayor and department head Rainer Spenger, the director of the city council Nikolaus Dopler and the director of the archive Gerhard Geissl […]

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FI | Säkylä: +2,000 images, documents, audios, videos

Säkylä’s Topotheque reached the milestone of 2000 objects (images, documents, audio files and videos) a while ago when the image of the waterfront of Alho’s fishing village in 1920’s was published. Congratulations to active local heritage community in Säkylä and […]

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EU | #EuropeForCulture Cultural Heritage in Action

We can join in! The Topothek was selected from more than 120 submitted projects in order to appear in a catalog with the 30 best practice projects as part of this EU program. An essential part of “Cultural Heritage in Action” is a peer learning program for local and regional […]

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A | LEADER WeinviertelOst: Auersthal online

As part of the LEADER project „Our communities in the past“, the Topotheque of the village of Auersthal in Weinviertel (Lower Austria) went online. Not as planned this way, but that can still be done in autumn. Two pieces should be mentioned here in particular: The insight […]

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