Photos of opening of Exhibition
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TONGA. ONLINE project room at the State Museum of Upper Austria in Linz, part of the exhibition "Tracing the Rainbow".
"For the Tonga people like me, there is something deeply biblical about the word MULONGA, yet it is a modern story too. One of massive but unshared technology. One of plentiful water but perpetual drought."
Dominic Muntanga
Exhibition "Tracing the Rainbow" about life, arts and culture in Southern Africa at the State Museum of Upper Austria province in Linz. Last year, Director Peter Assmann and Curator Stefan Eisenhofer invited us to present some results of our cultural exchange programme between Linz / Austria and the Tonga area. This invitation sparked the idea for the TONGA.ONLINE project as a way to communicate with the Tonga community directly.Part of the exhibition is a TONGA.ONLINE Project Room where visitors of the exhibition have an opportunity to get immediate access to Tonga people and Tonga culture using the Internet as a tool for communication.
TONGA. ONLINE project room at the State Museum of Upper Austria in Linz, part of the exhibition "Tracing the Rainbow".
Within the framework of the SOCRATES-Project "Museums, Keyworkers and Lifelong Learning", the Federal Austrian Ministry for Education, Sciences and Culture has, in cooperation with the Office for Cultural Exchange, advertised this year for the first time the "Special Award for Communication with Museums", worth ATS 50.000,-
Dominic Muntanga, a Tonga student and member of the Tonga.Online project group will visit Linz later this month. He is going to brief the students of the collaborating schools HAK Auhof Business School and LISA Linz International School about the situation in his home area and generally in Zimbabwe. At this time the first Internet Centre in Binga will already be operational and therefore allow for a direct link and online communication. Dominic Muntanga will provide for translation in chiTonga, the language of the Tonga people. Twalumba (thank you)!
At the occasion of "The long night of the museums" at 9th June 2001, from 8 p.m. onwards SPECIAL PROGRAM at the project room TONGA.ONLINE as part of the exhibition "Tracing the rainbow - life in Southern Africa" at the Schloßmuseum in Linz
"full stop" a video and sound loop as part of the series corrections by Thomas Schneider JOIN US - YOU ARE WELCOME!
Im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Spuren des Regenbogens – Leben im Südlichen Afrika"
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Official opening of the exhibition "Tracing the Rainbow" and Tonga.Online project room at State Museum of upper Austria in Linz, 01.04.2001.