19.09.2025 – 08.03.2026
It has now been more than 80 years since the darkest period in Austrian history came to an end. The exhibition highlights the ruptures and continuities in Linz during the transition from a wartime to a post-war society, the end of the National Socialist dictatorship and the beginning of renewed democratisation. The central question is what significance history has for us today.
What came to an end, and what continues to have an impact on the present? Where and how does remembrance take place in Linz? Who is (not) remembered? The exhibition addresses these and other questions with a view to the social and political challenges in Linz after 1945. The treatment of displaced persons and the housing shortage are just as much a focus as denazification and coming to terms with the past, using the example of Simon Wiesenthal.
The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the still palpable ambivalence between collective repression on the one hand and the importance of history for democracy and peace on the other.
Longing for Peace – 80 Years Since the End of the War in Linz
19.09.2025 – 08.03.2026
Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz
Simon-Wiesenthal-Platz 1
4020 Linz
www.nordico.at
