This is Linz!
Copyright: Linz09 / Kurt Groh
Is Linz a happy city? Or one that got lucky? In any case, the city has changed tremendously over the last 30 years. The “City in Luck” exhibition sheds light on Linz’s identity - yesterday and today.
What recollections does this city evoke when one thinks back over the last few decades? What has left a particularly strong impression on the collective memory in Linz? “Change” is the key concept here. From a dirty industrial town to Austria's most environmentally friendly city - a title Linz has borne with pride since 2006 - and high-tech urban center; from a purportedly provincial municipality to Europe’s Capital of Culture. Above all, Linz shows signs of having undergone a drastic image makeover. The “Linz. City in Luck” exhibition in the Nordico Museum translates the most important milestones of this transformation process into the form of an apartment: steel-town kids dueling in their room; clean industry getting all decked out in the bath; and the Capital of Culture dishing out its narratives in the kitchen. You’re cordially invited to stop in for a visit beginning June 5.Linz. City in Luck
June 5-September 13, 2009
Nordico – Museum of the City of Linz, Dametzstr. 23, 4020 Linz
Tuesday thru Sunday 10 AM-6 PM, Thursday 10 AM-9 PM, closed Monday
Free admission for holders of the Linz09 Card and Linz09 Insider.
Details: http://www.linz09.at/en/projekt-2106342/linz_stadt_im_glueck.html
And if you’ve got time to take in another great show: due to popular demand, the run of “Toulouse-Lautrec: An Intimate Look” in Landesgalerie Linz has been extended until June 14, 2009!
