Urban History Festival
Bonnevoie
Join us to tell the untold stories about the neighbourhood Bonnevoie at the next edition of the Urban History Festival in the city of Luxembourg! For the program, click here.
Team
Project coordinator Kyra Thielen
Public relations Julie Treff
Program coordinator Céline Offermans
Duration of the project
February – June 2024
The Urban History Festival is a recurring event organized by the Luxembourg City Museum with the aim to make people curious about the history of their city. Each edition is held in a different part of the city, this time it is in Bonnevoie.
This neighbourhood has a rich working-class history in connection with the railway, cultural and sports initiatives such as the “Gym”, which is the oldest sports club in the city. Today this neighbourhood is characterized by its multicultural population, and we are looking forward to present a diverse array of voices and stories about its past and present.
HearHere
This HearHere audio tour was created with oral histories from residents of Bonnevoie for the Luxembourg City Museum’s Urban History Festival, which took place on June 8-9, 2024 in the Bonnevoie district in Luxembourg city.
The audiotour is also accessible through the toll-free phone number (+352 800 81 292) with translations in Luxembourgish, French, Portuguese and English. Signs with the phone number are located at the sites where the stories took place.
Impresso
Using a massive collection of old newspapers and radio recordings, impresso – Media Monitoring of the Past is a research project that combines different fields to change how we analyze and understand historical media. It uses machine learning to improve how we organize, add meaning to, represent, explore, and study media from the past, regardless of format, time period, language, or country.
On the right you can see an example of an article in the public domain that relates to this research theme.
