The Storytelling Café highlights the eventful history of Steyr Wehrgraben

Craft centre, manufacturing engine, broken glass district, cultural and educational campus: Steyr Wehrgraben has undergone a profound structural change in its development. However, he retained one thing: an underlying tone of resistance. This became clear at least in the second half of the twentieth century, when development plans became public. At that time, artist and high school teacher Heribert Mader founded the first conservation initiative in the once run-down area: the association “Save the Wehrgraben”.

Tell yourself or listen

This, together with countless private revitalization initiatives, the Arbeitswelt Museum Association, from which the museum of the same name arose, the Fazat Steyr and the Röda Cultural Association, are the engines that have made the Wehrgraben what it is today. At the Tales Café, people will talk about the civil protest, changes in the area and the rescue operation. Anyone can come, tell a story or simply listen. Entry is free, no registration required

After the Tales Café in the City Museum Shop, you can visit the “Unruly Land” exhibition, which deals with the protest movements of the last 170 years, at the Museum of the Working World. Entry is also free.