MONDAY, OCTOBER 15
9:30 am WELCOME
Eszter Gantner and Heidi Hein-Kircher (Marburg)
9:45-10:15 am INTRODUCTION with the cooperation partners
10:15-11:00 am KEYNOTE
Rosemary Wakeman (New York): Exhibiting the Past in City Museums: Observations and Inferences
11:00-11:15 am Coffee break
11:15 am-1:15 pm PANEL I: INVENTING THE CAPITAL
Chair: Tanja Vahtikari (Tampere)
Jan Szkudlinki (Gdansk): City Museum of Gdynia (1933-1939)
Eszter Gantner (Marburg): Reinventing the past - Budapest´s City Museum in the 19th century
Heidi Hein-Kircher (Marburg): Imaging the Polish Nation: Lviv’s City Museum
Aleksander Lupienko (Warsaw): A dream capital city between past and future. Shaping the Polish image of Warsaw at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
1:15-2:15 pm Lunch
2:15-4:15 pm PANEL II: OBJECTS AND IMAGES
Chair: Wolfram Dornik (Graz)
Susanna Siro (Turku): Models and Museums: Scale Models as Reconstructions of Urban Past
Veronika Szakál (Szeged): The museum’s role in a Hungarian city
Tanja Vahtikari (Tampere): Museum exhibitions without the museum: historical pageants as urban identity creation in Finland, c. 1900-1950s
Sarah Ellen Zarrow (Bellingham): The Jewish Museum as City Museum: The Case of Lemberg
4:15-5:15 pm Concluding Discussion

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16
9:00-10:00 am Visiting the Image Archive, Map Collection, Library and Document Collection of the Herder Institute
10:00-10:15 am Coffee break
10:15-12:15 am PANEL III: NATIONAL PROJECTS
Chair: Antje Coburger (Marburg)
Viktoriia Svyrydenko (Kharkiv): Inventing the Capital: Images of Kharkiv and Its Past in City Museum (1920s-1930s)
Adrian Mitter (Marburg) and Peter Oliver Loew (Darmstadt): Exhibiting City, Region and Nation – The “Staatliches Landesmuseum für Danziger Geschichte” between Urbanity, Statehood and the Heimatgedanke (1927-1939)
Wolfram Dornik (Graz): Delayed claim to national leadership: the long way to memory institutions of the city of Graz
12:15-1:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS AND WRAP UP
Eszter Gantner, Heidi Hein-Kircher, Tanja Vahtikari and Wolfram Dornik