Europe’s Green Band (working title) - The Museums of the Province of Upper Austria in cooperation with Linz09

The Museums of the Province of Upper Austria: Exhibition "Europe's Green Band"
Copyright: Josef Limberger

“Europe’s Green Band” is an initiative to conserve valuable natural areas along the former Iron Curtain from Scandinavia to Turkey combined with a consideration of what the people living there have gone through and an effort to ensure them a brighter future through sustainable development. The approach suggested by this task is a consistent link-up of natural history and contemporary history, of the fates of local natural areas and of the people who lived through recent historical events. The exhibition seeks to come to terms with historical issues, current problems and prospects for the future, and situates them in an overall context: “From the Death Zone to the Band of Life.”

The first special exhibition in the new South Wing of the Linz Schlossmuseum 2009-10 in cooperation with the Archive of the Province of Upper Austria, the Upper Austrian Nature Conservation Academy as well as NGOs including the IUCN – World Conservation Union and the Österreichischer Naturschutzbund – Austrian Association for the Protection of Nature.