European Museum Prize for the Obersalzberg Documentation Center

The European Museum Academy has awarded the Obersalzberg Documentation Centre the prestigious Luigi Micheletti Award 2025 for its permanent exhibition ‘Idyll and Atrocity’. This permanent exhibition was developed by the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte – IfZ), which provides museum expertise to the Obersalzberg Documentation Center on behalf of the Bavarian State Government.

Digital image analysis: Understanding propaganda at the multi-touch table

Many exhibits in the permanent exhibition are presented using multimedia. Among other things, a media table designed in collaboration with the IWM allows visitors to digitally deconstruct propaganda images that portrayed Hitler as a ‘Führer’ close to the people. Using the multi-touch application developed by the Multimodal Interaction lab, the heavily retouched images of Hitler can be taken apart and analysed by swiping, zooming and sliding. Applications such as these help users to deal with complex information more intuitively and understand it better.

More information about the award for the Obersalzberg Documentation Center: Press release on the European Museum Award for the Obersalzberg Documentation Center (in German)

More information about the project at the IWM: The Obersalzberg from a visitor's perspective: Cognitive impact of a historical site and its propagandistic staging during the Nazi era