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kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de: Lower Saxony's cultural memory
Our publication "Federal Diversity – Global Networking: Strategies of the Federal States for the Cultural Heritage in the Digital World" (released in September 2016) for the first time...

New Virtual Exhibition: “Grimm from A to Z – What the Brothers Grimm didn’t tell us”
“Perhaps it was time to set down these tales in writing, for those who should be their custodians are steadily diminishing…” – this is how the “Children’s and Household Tales” of the...

Coding Da Vinci Nord: A full success for all participants
The atmosphere in the bunker on the Heiligengeistfeld in the resonance chamber yesterday was great. After the kick-off of the cultural hackathon Coding Da Vinci Nord on 17./18.9.2016,...

The history of the umbrella and its social consequences
It began with mockery, insults and pelted rubbish, when the Englishman Jonas Hanway came back from a trip to France in the early 1750s and went for a walk in London. His fellow citizens...

New collections: The Historical Images Archive of the Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau
The Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau (Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute) has over 10,000 photographs and images in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, rendering 150 years of...