Vienna Library revolutionizes poster exhibition with a digital platform!

Vienna Library revolutionizes poster exhibition with a digital platform!

Rathaus, Wien, Österreich - A new milestone in the digital world of Vienna: The Digital platform Plakatstudio 150,000 historical posters from three centuries. These extensive collections can now be explored easily and interactively by users not only use text, but also image, color and face searches. Mayor Michael Ludwig is convinced that such digitization projects Vienna make Vienna a livable, intelligent city of the future, and emphasizes the importance of poster art for urban culture.

The Wienbibliothek's collection collection is one of the world's largest with more than 450,000 copies and offers a unique insight into the development of poster art, especially in the second half of the 20th century. Veronica Kaup-Hasler, City Councilor for Culture and Science, explains that the poster studio not only makes works of art accessible, but also stimulates social debate about democracy and diversity. This is done by the latest AI technologies that enable a new dimension of interaction with the posters, as Robert Sablatnig from the Institute for Visual Computing emphasizes.

creative discovery and historical preservation

The Plakatstudio aims to bring the poster collection closer to a wide audience. Users can upload their own images that then generate suitable poster representations - an innovative approach that significantly simplifies and designed the research. These functional innovations contribute to the fact that the history and art of Vienna can be made in a creative way and encourage everyone interested to deal with the cultural heritage.