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Experiencing Silesia

“Experiencing Silesia” – this isn’t just the title, but also the goal of the event series, for which, every year, a new, diverse program is created by the Cultural Office for Silesia.

Für, mit und gegen Napoleon. Revolution, Reform oder Restauration

So sehr die Ära Napoleon ein Stück gesamteuropäische Geschichte ist, so sehr unterscheiden sich die Überlieferungen und Deutungen dieser Zeit in den einzelnen europäischen Staaten. Eine Doppelausstellung befasst sich mit den Ereignissen in Schlesien, den Hintergründen und der Historiographie...

Gdansk in aerial photographs in the interwar years

In impressive photographs, the extensive aerial photo exhibition documents the Hanseatic city of Gdansk before the destruction of the Second World War.
Cultural institution

German Culture Forum for Central and Eastern Europe

The German Culture Forum for Central and Eastern Europe works to promote cross-border communication of German culture and the history of Eastern Europe in the form of events, exhibitions, and both printed and digital publications.
Authors Reading

German-Polish Literature Days on the Neisse

Books open up worlds, enable encounters, and create experiences. The German-Polish Literature Days on the Neisse present books and their authors, as well as translators and critics from Germany, Poland, and other parts of Eastern Europe. They are organized by the Cultural Advisor for Silesia.
conference

German-Polish Museum Forum

German-Polish dialogue on museum exhibition and education work – HAUS SCHLESIEN offers German and Polish museum experts a forum for discussion and cross-border exchange through its curators' conferences.
Museum | Collection | Library

HAUS SCHLESIEN

HAUS SCHLESIEN is all about versatility! In the heart of the Siebengebirge you will discover a place that is not only peaceful, comfortable and atmospheric, but also an international meeting place and educational center where the culture of remembrance comes alive. On site, across Germany and...

Heads and Tails

Visitors of the Silesian Museum are invited to take a look at coin mints, inscriptions, and monetary values, as these all tell stories: They reveal traces of changing power relations in Silesia's eventful history.

Heckert Glassware 1866-1923

Comprising around 200 glassworks, this exhibition of the Silesian Museum offers a representative overview of the productions of the company Fritz Heckert, which was long considered one of the leading manufacturers of art and ornamental glass and enjoyed international success.
Scientific infrastructure facility | Research institute

Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe

The Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association (HI) is one of the central non-university infrastructure and research institutions for historical research on East Central Europe in Germany.
Atlas

Historical-Topographical Atlas of Silesian Towns

The atlas shows the development of selected towns in Silesia from the 19th to the 21st century. It focusses on urban expansion and the development of settlement as well as the expansion of modern transport infrastructure.
Holding

Holdings and collections of the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

The scientific library of the Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation includes German and foreign language books, newspapers and magazines as well as digital media on the topic of forced migrations in the 20th and 21st centuries in Europe. In addition to a contemporary...

In the Enemy's Viewfinder – German photo-journalists in occupied Warsaw 1939-1945

During World War II, around 700,000 residents of Warsaw lost their lives. Almost the whole Jewish population was murdered. By 1945, Warsaw had become a ruined and almost deserted city. The photographs on show come from observations through the “Enemy's Viewfinder”, that is, through the lenses of...
Research project

Indexing of archival holdings

The BKGE participates in the indexing of archive holdings with sources on the history of Germans in Eastern Europe in order to make them more easily accessible to the academic public and thus to expand the possibilities for research.

Klosterdämmerung ("The Twilight of the Monastery") – Part I

In the Kingdom of Prussia, the abolition of all monasteries in 1810 meant a decisive historical turning point. The first part of the exhibition project "Klosterdämmerung" ("The Twilight of the Monastery") shows the historical development of the seven Silesian Cistercian monasteries from the Middle...

Klosterdämmerung ("The Twilight of the Monastery") – Part II (Leubus)

In the Kingdom of Prussia, the abolition of all monasteries in 1810 meant a decisive historical turning point. The second part of the exhibition project "Klosterdämmerung" ("The Twilight of the Monastery") shows the historical development of the oldest of the seven Silesian Cistercian monasteries...

Klosterdämmerung ("The Twilight of the Monastery") – Part III (Kamieniec Ząbkowicki)

In the Kingdom of Prussia, the abolition of all monasteries in 1810 meant a decisive historical turning point. The third part of the exhibition project "Klosterdämmerung" ("The Twilight of the Monastery") shows the historical development of the municipality and the Cistercian Abbey in Kamieniec...
Library holdings

Library of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Eastern Europe

The special library of the BKGE, which is open to the public, currently contains about 62,000 books and 990 periodicals (including about 100 current periodicals and 180 in Eastern European languages).
Library | Archive

Martin Opitz Library

The Martin Opitz Library (MOB) is the central library for German culture and history in Eastern Europe. It collects literature from all areas of East-Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The main focus of the collections is on the regions that today form western Poland and the Kaliningrad...
Series

Materialien zur Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas (Materials on the Art, Culture and History of East Central Europe)

Editions and studies of materials on the art, culture, and history of East Central Europe are presented in this series by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe.
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