our archive. your story

The project 'our archive. your story' is made up of several facets:

• a website ourarchiveyourstory.lu where the public can find out more about the project, look up practical information on the archives, watch tutorials explaining how to archive and protect their own documents, consult our selection criteria or explore documents selected from the CNA collections. This website will go online at the end of March 2022
   
• CNA on tour: Following the Esch 2022 program, the CNA will travel the south of Luxembourg and visit 6 of its municipalities throughout 2022 - Bettembourg from the end of April to the end of May, Dudelange in June, Sanem in July and September, Differdange at the end of September through October, Villerupt in November and Kayl at the end of November and in December.
  
  
• Cine-concert presented in each municipality to highlight Luxembourg's audiovisual heritage. Produced from the CNA's photo and film collections, this film concert allows the audience a small glimpse of the vastness and diversity of its audiovisual archives. The images will be accompanied by a live performance from the Pit Dahm Quartet, who have created a special music backdrop especially for the occasion. An extraordinary audiovisual experience for everyone!
  
  
• an educational program entitled 'What's your story?'. What's your story?' offers students (from cycle 4 to high school students) and young people to discover the importance of archives, collective memory and heritage conservation through the narration of their own personal and family history. The results of the workshops with schools and youth centers will be presented during mini-exhibitions in each municipality
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• the 'nos coups de cœur’ exhibition at Display01. Display01 will serve as the headquarter of 'CNA on tour' but will also be used as an exhibition space to present personal favorites from our archival collection selected by the personnel of our archives department. Through their work of classifications, digitization, research, they know our collection better than anyone and each one of them has come across documents that have stood out to them by their singularity, their historical value, aesthetics or their evocative power. The public will be able to discover a selection of these treasures from our photo, film and sound archives in this special and intimate exhibition! The whole installation will be rounded off by projections of ‘Komm… ech filmen dech!’ by Geneviève Mersch, five short films made from the CNA's amateur film collection.
  
  
• the 'Stëmme vun der Schmelz' exhibition at Waassertuerm + Pomhouse.  As part of the ‘our archive - your story’ project and on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of our iconic site ‘Waassertuerm + Pomhouse’, the CNA presents the exhibition 'Stëmme vun der Schmelz' in homage to the former industrial site and its workers. The CNA is teaming up with artist Michel Feinen and scenographer Anouk Schiltz to carry out a project based around eyewitness accounts of the former steel plant in Dudelange. 

Esch2022, European Capital of Culture

In 2022, together with 10 PRO-SUD municipalities, and 8 municipalities in France, in the Communauté de Communes Pays Haut Val l’Alzette (CCPHVA), Esch-Alzette, Luxembourg’s second largest city, will be European Capital of Culture. Each year this label is awarded to a different city or area within the European Union.

Under the slogan REMIX Culture and its four sub-sections REMIX Art, REMIX Europe, REMIX Nature and REMIX Yourself, Esch2022 aims to create synergies, guarantee sustainable development and, most importantly, ensure that the general public gets actively involved.

Esch2022 creates a new perception of the region as an attractive cultural and city trip destination, creates new offers and attractions, strengthens regional identity and increases international popularity.