Germany

Easter Feast

Easter Feast
Date
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Organised by
Museumsdorf Düppel - Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin (DE)
Country
Germany

On the long Easter weekend, the open-air museum invites you to a colorful festival with a market.

In the village square, traders offer historical handicrafts. There is a lot to discover here, from hand-woven to hand-made and fine-painted.

The puppet stage brings the medieval people's imagination "Between Heaven and Earth" in a vivid and humorous way.

Spin, Weave, Dye

Spin Weave Dye
Date
Organised by
Museumsdorf Düppel - Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin (DE)
Country
Germany

How wool becomes clothing

In the museum village, everything revolves around clothing. Whether wool from freshly shorn Skudden, an old breed of sheep, whether hemp fiber or flax: from the raw material to the finished piece of clothing, the different manufacturing processes can be clearly experienced.

And if you want, you can spin, felt, weave, dye or sew yourself!

Book Review: Mittelsteinzeit, ein Leben im Paradies? by Werner Pfeifer

Author(s)
Michael Müller 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2020/1
Considering actual studies about the analysis of ancient DNA is an important question, if only the lifestyle or the population, too, changed when hunter-gatherers became farmers and stockbreeders. The results point so far towards the latter possibility. However, the foragers of the Northern European Ertebølle culture preserved their lifestyle for one millennium, even though they lived in neighboring areas...

Jork Viking Market

Jork Viking Market
Date
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Organised by
Wikingermarkt Jork
Country
Germany

Experience the Vikings and discover how they lived in the period from the 9th to the 10th centuries. Traders and artisans present their goods and show how products were made in the Viking Age. Fighters present the different weapons and show their martial arts.