Museum - Welcome to the Heart of Europe

One evening, at a management conference, I wandered through the deserted exhibition rooms of Vienna’s Art History Museum. I paused in front of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1563 painting “The Tower of Babel” and indulged in memories of a lecture on ”fundamentals of the Christian faith” at the Vienna Theology Courses. The Tower of Babel was too grandiose not to crumble already while it was built.

 

The construction of the tower was crooked – the project was just wrong! The scripture of Genesis 11 is characterized by monotonous, repetitive, poor language — dull military command tone. The words reminiscent of media conformity and a language of violence.

  

A colleague and friend interrupted my thoughts, and we took photos in front of the famous painting. It was the last time that I saw him. Half a year later he had to go from this realm. At the beginning of a multinational ERP system implementation, we had worked together to overcome some of the language confusion that had already slowed down the builders of the Tower of Babel.