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institutions, and personal engagement in publicizing the museum's work through video podcasts and media work. Since its re-opening after the renovation, the museum has attracted record numbers of visitors, both to its regular exhibitions and to its evening program of events featuring visiting artists, which Spera moderates. Specifically, the
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cultural artifacts. Spera herself was personally attacked as she was seen as the driving force behind the renovation project. The museum responded with a report from a court-certified expert who testified the holograms could not have been unmounted without damage as they had been glued together almost 15 years prior. The museum added that a second set of the same holograms, that had not been on display, was still intact and would be placed in storage for future use.
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premises a priority, launching an intensive fundraising effort both from official sources in
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Viennese life was broken on its removal from the museum. A museum employee took pictures and sent them to curator blogs and the local media, creating a furore about what critics said was the destruction of
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in 2009, and formally took over the job in July 2010. In interviews around the time of her appointment, she said she would put her name and celebrity at the service of the museum, which was at the time rather unknown to the general public. She also said she aimed to "open up" the museum to the
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In addition to the general management of the museum, Spera also acts as a curator, most recently for the exhibitions TATIANA LECOMTE (23.05. -27.10.2013), Jewish genius: Warhol's Jews (14.03-28.10.2012) and
Waiting room of hope: The Rothschild Hospital in November 1947 - Photos of Henry Ries
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public, to create a space where fears and prejudices were dispelled and non-Jews could experience both the traumatic past and the vibrant present of the
Austrian Jewish community. Specific goals also included reaching out to young people with targeted projects for schools, and to tourists.
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Spera was initially a controversial choice for director due to her lack of museum experience, but has since been widely credited with greatly increasing the public profile of the museum through her choice of exhibition themes with wide appeal, pushing for cooperations with other cultural
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Issue 10-2013/14, with Dr. Werner Hanak-Lettner (published in German as Jüdische Museen zwischen gestern und morgen. Reflexionen aus involvierter Außenperspektive. Wiener
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