against the ideas of conservative' Black' Vienna. With theirfocus on homeland protection and popular education, bour-geois- conservative and nationalist- leaning groups tried to puttheir mark on what Heimat and Volkstum( folklore) meant inthe city.

During this period, groups with different ideological andpractical interests in Heimat came together at the Museum ofFolk Life and Folk Art. The museum and the ÖsterreichischeHeimatgesellschaft( Austrian Heimat Society), which wasactive at the museum, were important producers and media-tors of urban' Heimat culture'.

2 On the Baroque and the Palais

3 Practices of Memory

Memory is the result of processes, meaning that how the pastis dealt with is dependent on a range of factors. The formstaken by remembrance and the history of how these cameabout also need to be looked at within the context of theirown time.

Due to their collecting activities, museums are assigned aresponsibility to remember. They are places of memory for asociety's collective memory and- willingly or unwillingly-also represent their own institutional history. Above all, the