Online exhibitions and outputs
In connection with its commitment to public history and knowledge sharing, every year the C²DH publishes new virtual exhibitions and other digital outputs, which it continues to update and enhance on a regular basis. Published in several languages, these resources are aimed at both the Luxembourg community and an international audience and are freely accessible online.
Editor in chief: Benoît Majerus.
The virtual exhibition “BGL: L’histoire d’un siècle”, developed by the C²DH to mark the centenary of BGL BNP Paribas, covers the history of the bank from its beginnings in 1919 to the present day, as well as its role and participation in the economy and development of Luxembourg. For this project, C²DH researchers were able to access the bank’s archives. This research was particularly important and relevant for the historiography of the country, given the significant role of BGL BNP Paribas as a catalyst for both the Luxembourg economy and the development of Luxembourg as a financial centre.
In partnership with the BGL BNP Paribas.
Editor in chief: Stefan Krebs
The COVID-19 pandemic is an event whose historic dimension is immediately obvious. Comparisons with the Spanish flu at the end of the First World War and the (uniquely Western) assessment that it is the greatest crisis since the Second World War are on everyone’s lips. Luxembourg’s state of emergency has led to unprecedented restrictions in our private and professional lives. With the online platform #covidmemory, the C²DH offers all people living or working in Luxembourg the opportunity to share their experiences and preserve them for future generations. Anyone can upload photos, videos or texts to this open and free web-based platform, allowing us to document how the pandemic has changed our lives.
With the support of the Fonds National de la Recherche.
Project leader: Anne-Katrin Weber.
Dronetv.lu is a plurilingual platform on the history of military, industrial and educational television. Through contributions in different formats (text, audio, video, photography), it seeks to excavate the applications and uses of television outside the home. The website is an extension of a postdoctoral research project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation; its development and online publication was made possible thanks to the support by the C²DH. Dronetv.lu brings together texts by Anne-Katrin Weber, as well as research carried out by students of the Seminar für Medienwissenschaft at the University of Basel.
With the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Directors: Denis Scuto, Andreas Fickers
Curator: Sandra Camarda
The digital exhibition Éischte Weltkrich: Remembering the Great War in Luxembourg is a project developed by the C²DH with the aim of addressing an important but neglected and understudied period in the country’s history.
Supported by the Ministry of State and drawing on the collections and expertise of some of the major Luxembourg museums, archives and cultural institutions, the project has progressively deepened and widened its scope, aspiring to become a long-term digital resource.
The website is designed to engage a broad base of users with varying interests and degrees of expertise. It offers four independent but interconnected modes of navigation: a thematic, story-driven mode; a digital archive; an interactive geo-referenced map and a timeline. Additional sections of the website contain educational pages for schools and downloadable academic articles.
With the support of the Ministry of State.
IWalk Luxembourg
Curator: Jakub Bronec
Developed by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, IWalk unlocks a new window into our past. Visitors and students at authentic sites of history and memorials can discover curated IWalks—tours that connect specific locations of memory and memorialization with testimonies from survivors and witnesses of genocide, violence and mass atrocity. Looking more specifically at Luxembourg, there are more than a hundred testimonies of survivors telling their stories from the pre-war and post-war years. Their narrations are a valuable record of the experiences, emotions and feelings of the Luxembourgish Jewish population within the country’s collective post-war memory.
Curator: Richard Legay.
The Popkult60 online exhibition showcases the transnational history of popular culture in the Long Sixties. It is the result of the collaboration between PhD students and postdoctoral researchers of the University of Luxembourg and the University of the Saarland. You may explore the main room by clicking on the various objects and learn more about the individual research projects. Alternatively, he can search a rich collection of objects and sources.
Project director: Andreas Fickers
Scientific director: Christoph Brüll
East Belgium 1920-2020 is a virtual exhibition about the History of the region Eupen-Malmedy-Sankt Vith since the change of nationality in 1920. It is the result of a collaboration between the the C²DH, the German-speaking Community of Belgium and the Zentrum für Ostbelgische Geschichte.
Director: Andreas Fickers.
Ranke.2 is a online open source teaching platform with a series of lessons on digital source criticism. It offers teaching content that can be easily integrated into academic curricula, but it is also suitable for independent learners. As the content of Ranke.2 is directly accessible, lecturers can easily integrate a clip, a quiz or one or more assignments in their teaching. All they have to do is include a link to Ranke.2 either in their slides, in tasks to complete during the lesson, or in homework that is communicated through the Learning Management System.
Coordination: Sandra Camarda, Dominique Santana, Denis Scuto and Gerben Zaagsma.
Interactive documentary on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge: Schumann’s Eck is a busy crossing in the north of Luxembourg, where the roads from Ettelbruck to Bastogne and from Wiltz to the Upper Sûre Lake intersect. Many people take this road every day, but very few know that they are passing through the site of one of the most gruesome episodes of the Battle of the Bulge. Here, in the Winter of 1944/45, thousands of soldiers and civilians lost their lives.During the 2019 summer semester, students on the Bachelor course in Contemporary History of Luxembourg, in collaboration with the National Museum of Military History in Diekirch, produced an interactive web documentary on the Schumann’s Eck.
In collaboration with the National Museum of Military History in Diekirch.
Project director: Andreas Fickers.
Coordinator: Aurélia Lafontaine.
The virtual exhibition 175 Joer POST tells the story of the Entreprise des Postes et Télécommunications in Luxembourg from the point at which it was founded as an independent postal administration on 20 August 1842 until 2017.
The exhibition, aimed at a wide spectrum of users with varying degrees of expertise, is structured around four independent but interconnected modes of navigation, namely chronological, geographical, collection-based and thematic approaches. It is the result of a research project launched by the C²DH and POST Luxembourg in connection with celebrations for the 175th anniversary of POST Luxembourg.
The Virtual Museum of Russian Emigration was created on the initiative of three parties - the C²DH, the Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines in Dudelange and the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Luxembourg (Russkiy Dom). It aims to give public access to the collected material during the research project of Inna Ganschow at the C²DH.
The University of Luxembourg’s CVCE.eu research infrastructure offers access to thousands of documents and publications on the European integration process.
To come:
- Transmedia documentary: A Colônia Luxemburguesa.
- Virtual exhibitions:
- Remixing the industrial pasts.
- Luxembourg during the Second World War (WWIILUX).
- The history of justice in Luxembourg.
- Memorial Digital de la Shoah à Luxembourg
- Virtual Reconstruction and Visualisation of Gilbert Trausch's Library.
- Luxtime Machine.
- 150 Years of Inspection du travail et des mines: digital database on fatal work-related accidents in the Grand Duchy covering the period from 1869 to 2019.