SRF archive awarded
As part of UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the SRF Archive is opening its doors to offer visitors a glimpse into the history of Swiss television. For this, it is being honored by the Memoriav Association with the award for the best Swiss educational project.
The Swiss Radio and Television Archive is opening its doors on October 27, 2015, giving the public an insight into Swiss television history. The day of visits is entitled "From film reel to tape robot". On guided tours, visitors will immerse themselves in the holdings of past decades and experience first-hand the work involved in preserving and archiving moving images.
On World Audiovisual Heritage Day on October 27, Unesco annually calls for attention to be drawn to the unique value of audiovisual documents and holdings. In this context, the Memoriav association awards a prize for the mediation project that draws attention in the most interesting way to the importance of preserving Switzerland's audiovisual cultural heritage. This award is given to the SRF archive for its visit day on October 27.
The Memoriav association is committed to the preservation and broad use of Switzerland's audiovisual cultural heritage. Commenting on the day of visits to the SRF archive, Memoriav Director Christoph Stuehn says: "Radio and television archives are important places of memory and remembrance of our time - museums of the 20th and 21st centuries. They bring history into the present and thus have a significant impact on cultural memory."
