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8 June 2020

Fashion.at tip: Exploration of the Danube river, its nature, history and people's lifestyle from the Black Sea to Austria at an exhibition at Schallaburg in Lower Austria

The exhibition 'Die Donau - Menschen, Schätze & Kulturen' (The Danube - People, Treasures & Cultures) provides with various artefacts such as jewelry, textiles, ship models and media like paintings, videos, audio insights into the history, nature and lifestyle at the banks of the Danube river from the Black Sea to Austria at the height of castle Schallaburg where visitors can explore the manifold story in Deutsch and English until 8 November 2020. The journey starts against the direction of the stream which goes in its full length from the Schwarzwald in Germany to the Black Sea. The exhibition's route from the Black Sea, Danube Delta in Romania (picture on this page, the reproduction of the lighthouse in Sulina, Romania marks kilometer 0) leads through numerous rooms dedicated to single topics like birds or fishes. The fauna is divers and changes with zones like pelicans are living at the Donau Delta.

The dramaturgy of the show can be compared with a ship tour or better with a journey on a speed boat where topics and times change in a fast mode. Hundreds of years are covered in a time lapse; the history of Danube gold diggers and arts & crafts objects made of gold to recipes of traditional dishes over trading goods like exclusive handbags from various cities such as Vienna, to interior objects, jewelry, mints, music instruments or hats from different cultures along the Danube to mythical creatures like the Viennese Danube Mermaid (warned people about floods) or ship models are presented in a rapid constellation.

Image right: The reproduction of the 14-metre-high lighthouse of Sulina in Romania shows the writing kilometer 0. The lighthouse (from 1887) once piloted ships from the Black Sea into the river. The installation at the court of Schallaburg is the starting point of the exhibition 'Die Donau - Menschen, Schätze & Kulturen' (The Danube - People, Treasures & Cultures), photo captured on 6 June 2020. The exploration opened on 1 June and can be visited until 8 November 2020.

Image below: View at the Danube from castle Aggstein, near Schallaburg.




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