Minute Museum of Resistance

Anti-fascist Solidarities. The Case of Former Yugoslavia

Discussion

Sat 20.09.2025

Hands in chains, 1941 Indian ink on paper, 38,5 x 49,8 cm Dated in the lower right corner: Novemb. 941 Purchased from Aleksandar Deroko, November 25, 1962 Inv. No. MJ 2-30-29
© Aleksandar Deroko

Doll, a boy with a little dog Cloth, wool, silk, cardboard, handmade, coloured pencil, 16 x 10 cm 1943/1944, Banjica, Belgrade Taken over from the Historical Archives of Belgrade, May 23, 1962 Inv. No. MJ 2-26-75 © Srbijanka and Jovanka Bukumirović
©
Doll, Baba Yaga, a witch Textile, homespun, hair, wire, twine, cardboard, handmade, 8 x 8 x 10 cm 1943/1944, Banjica, Belgrade Taken over from the Historical Archives of Belgrade, May 23, 1962 Inv. No. MJ 2-26-76 © Srbijanka and Jovanka Bukumirović

DÖW x WIENWOCHE

https://www.doew.at/termine/minute-museum-of-resistance-wienwoche

When? September 20th, 2025 at 5pm
Where? Volkskundemuseum Wien (Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art), Otto-Wagner-Areal, Pav. 1
Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien

Admission is free, but registration is requested. Registration

The collections of the Museum of Yugoslavia in Belgrade include objects and works of art that tell of everyday life in the camps during the Nazi era. It is not only the art catalogue of the museum, which was originally founded as the Museum of the Revolution of Yugoslav Nations (and Ethnic Minorities) in 1959 that has parallels with the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) founded in 1963 – the two institutions are also linked by central questions regarding the handling of the collection and its continuation. Reason enough to explore the similarities and differences in the cultures of remembrance as part of and on the initiative of the WIENWOCHE festival.

At the Minute Museum of Resistance, a series of object discussions organized by the DÖW at the Otto-Wagner-Areal in Vienna and also part of WIENWOCHE 2025, experts from both institutions will enter an exchange. Using selected objects from the collections, they will explore similarities and differences in the museums’ work with objects of resistance and persecution – as well as their reception. The thematic arc ranges from collection strategies and their distortions to the political memory of the partisan movement, thinking in (and between) geopolitical blocs and the question of how resistance can be represented in museums today.

With: Ana Panić (MoY) / Nici Mairhofer (DÖW) / Jelena Micić (WIENWOCHE)

Moderation: Alexander Martos and Niko Wahl

Discussion Participants: Ana Panić (Museum of Yugoslavia), Nici Mairhofer (DÖW), Jelena Micić (WIENWOCHE)

Moderation: Alexander Martos and Niko Wahl