See The Statue of Liberty and Imagine The Statue of Responsibility

The Statue of Liberty in New York, USA, is one of the world's most recognizable landmarks.


Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York, USA. Photo from Wikipedia, public domain, cropped by the Wikipedia user.

 In the year 1946 in his book, Man's Search For Meaning, the author Viktor E Frankl suggested that a Statue of Responsibility should be built on the West coast of the USA over Alcatraz outside San Francisco.

Viktor Frankl, author of Man's Search for Meaning. Photo from Wikipedia.

I came across this again recently whilst researching Viktor Frankl, author of Man's Search for meaning, a book which has sold more than 10 million copies.

I was trying to remember Viktor Frankl's name and its spelling for my speech Every Cloud Has  Silver Lining. Viktor, like victory, but with a K because Viktor was from Austria. His surname, Frankl, like the surname of Anne Frank with the added l for life, also has the Germanic K.

To visit statues of Liberty
USA
1 Liberty Island, Manhattan, New York, USA
2 Others around the USA include one at the New York, New York hotel and casino, Las Vegas
EUROPE
Three minor statues in obscure places in the UK.
3 Paris, France. three statues; Bordeaux, Colmar, Nice, and several more.
4 Heidel Park (theme park), Germany.

Statue of Liberty in Colmar, France. Photo by Kuruma33 from Wikipedia.

You can view large statues on Open Street Map.
5 Norway

ASIA
Several in Japan. Small one in Singapore at Haw Par Villa.

AUSTRALIA
A statue in a shopping mall in the city of Adelaide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_of_the_Statue_of_Liberty#Singapore

Before WWII and the Holocaust,
Useful Websites
To book tickets to visit the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island:
https://www.nps.gov/stli/planyourvisit/index.htm
Other statues of Liberty around the World
http://mentalfloss.com/article/21753/quick-10-10-statues-liberty-other-original
Viktor Frankl:
http://viktorandi.publishpath.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2782.Viktor_E_Frankl

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Viktor Frankl Centre, Vienna, Austria - another must see for your bucket list

Problem
What to see after the Esperanto Museum?

Answer
By chance I came across the Viktor F r a n k l Centre. (Space inserted because spellchecker tried to turn this into frankly!)

Viktor Frankl was a Holocaust survivor. He had run a programme which stopped students committing suicide before WWII. I went to the funeral of somebody who committed suicide this year (2018) and I had been puzzling long before that over how to stop students and others from committing suicide. Frankl had the answer way back in the 1930s. He had the theory, and put it into practice.

After losing his first wife in WWII (she died in Belsen) he continued his work in analysing mental health and helping people.

He married again after the war and wrote many books including Man's Search For Meaning. He lived until his nineties.

The reviewers on TripAdvisor were full of praise for this small museum which opened in 2017 for only two days a week. Maybe that will change as more people hear about it and wish to visit.

Where Next?
Freud Museum, Vienna. The Esperanto museum. Funeral Museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Vienna#/media/File:Josephinischer_Gemeindesarg_Bestattungsmuseum.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_Museum_Vienna

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.