!!!Urania

Urania, founded 1897 in Vienna as an institute for popular science 
after the Berlin model, by the Lower Austrian Trade Association 
(Gewerbeverein); at first run as a syndicate, soon turned into a 
charitable society, which derived its policies from adult education 
centres in Denmark; moved into its own building on the Danube Canal in 
1910, where it established an educational centre (with astronomical 
observatory and electric clock) and was among the first to use the 
latest mechanical aids in its educational programmes (slides, films). 
The Vienna Urania reached the peak of its influence during the 
1%%sup st/%  Republic (opening of branch offices outside of Vienna, of 
which the ones in Baden and Hollabrunn still exist today); in the 
2%%sup nd/%  Republic it became a member of the association of adult 
education centres (Volkshochschulverband). A Graz Urania existed from 
1919 to 1938, the "Austrian Urania for Styria", with branch 
offices, has been an important adult education centre in Styria since 
1947 ( Adult Education).


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