It is 100 years since Europe teetered on the edge of an abyss: the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR) has initialized a large collaborative project in 2013/2014 that commemorates the outbreak of the First World War. It is the first time that its museums and cultural departments have worked together with a number of partners in the Rhineland to highlight the conditions leading up to, and consequences of, an event that history books call the “seminal catastrophe of the 20th century”. This unique cooperation includes an international congress as well as numerous exhibitions, events and excursions:
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