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The Wien Museum (Vienna City Museum) is again offering the tour “African Vienna: Angelo Soliman in Vienna” which seeks to highlight the visible and invisible history of Africans in Vienna. I did the tour last year in a slightly different format when it was offered as part of the accompanying programme events to the Angelo Soliman exhibition (for me report on the exhibition, see here). Led by two men - Walter Sauer and Amadou Lamine-Sarr, both historians at the University of Vienna - who were able to bring different perspectives to the tour. Lamine-Sarr is originally from Senegal and so was able to bring in interesting examples and parallels from his own experience as an African man in Vienna.  If you are in Vienna and your German is up to it, the tour is on June 29th at 5pm.  Other tours through the city on offer at the moment include: Invisible traces of Klimt in Hietzing and Penzing Tour of places involved in the widespread housing protest occupations in the 1980s and last, but by no means least: Public ammenities: a tour of the historical and eccentric public toilets in Vienna in their historical context 

The Wien Museum (Vienna City Museum) is again offering the tour “African Vienna: Angelo Soliman in Vienna” which seeks to highlight the visible and invisible history of Africans in Vienna. I did the tour last year in a slightly different format when it was offered as part of the accompanying programme events to the Angelo Soliman exhibition (for me report on the exhibition, see here). Led by two men - Walter Sauer and Amadou Lamine-Sarr, both historians at the University of Vienna - who were able to bring different perspectives to the tour. Lamine-Sarr is originally from Senegal and so was able to bring in interesting examples and parallels from his own experience as an African man in Vienna. 

If you are in Vienna and your German is up to it, the tour is on June 29th at 5pm. 

Other tours through the city on offer at the moment include:

  • Invisible traces of Klimt in Hietzing and Penzing
  • Tour of places involved in the widespread housing protest occupations in the 1980s

and last, but by no means least:

  • Public ammenities: a tour of the historical and eccentric public toilets in Vienna in their historical context 

Shakespeare's Restless World - BBC Radio series

“In a 20-part series to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, looks at the world through the eyes of Shakespeare’s audience by exploring objects from that turbulent period.

“Neil uses objects to explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped shape the works and considers what they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. Contributing to the programmes will be Shakespeare scholars, historians and experts on witchcraft and warfare, fencing and food, luxury trade and many other topics. They discuss the issues these objects raise – everything from exploration and discovery to violence, entertainment and the plague.”

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