Salzburg Festival Archive honored
The audiovisual collection of the Salzburg Festival has been included in the Austrian national "Memory of the World" register by the Unesco Commission.
The Salzburg Festival keeps an archive of recordings and recordings from over 80 years of Festival history that has grown over the decades. It documents the highlights of European music and theater history and has been digitized professionally and permanently secured by the Austrian Media Library of the Technisches Museum Wien in cooperation with the Austrian Media Library since 2020.
The "Memory of the World" program was founded by Unesco 30 years ago. Its aim is to promote global efforts to preserve documents and make information accessible. Since 2014, the Austrian Unesco Commission has maintained the national Austrian Documentary Heritage Register, which lists documents and document holdings of outstanding importance to Austrian history.
