Cultural Heritage Online
Digital Cultural Heritage
During the summer of 2024, the Salzburg Festival received funding approval for its grant application to the EU and the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Public Services and Sports for the project “Kulturerbe digital” (Digital Cultural Heritage).
The goal of this programme, which is supported by the EU and the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Public Services and Sports, is to make Austria’s cultural heritage accessible via digital technologies, enabling a broad public to use them. All programme books (since 1920) are currently being digitized, along with posters and costume sketches of Festival productions. This involves the capture and processing of approximately 500,000 printed pages of event-related publications, 300 posters and approximately 3,000 costume designs on paper.
In addition, 3D scans of costumes and associated props of four selected productions are being created. The first of these is Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier of 1960 – the opening premiere of the Großes Festspielhaus under the baton of Herbert von Karajan, directed by Rudolf Hartmann. The digitized materials are to be made accessible from the summer of 2025 onwards via a catalogue that can be searched on the Salzburg Festival website. In addition, they can be viewed on the site kulturpool.at.
