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Roeland Paardekooper, a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau

On 2nd February EXARC's Director, Roeland Paardekooper, was made a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. The Award, granted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, was made at a ceremony in Eindhoven on the 27th April. The award is a well-deserved recognition of Roeland's achievements and the citation focused in particular on his services to archaeology and the very considerable part he has played in the development of EXARC's international network...

18th EXARC meeting, Modena 2012

On April 14, the EXARC AGM took place at Parco Montale in Italy. This AGM took place in the shoulder of a large bronze casting workshop with participants from over 8 countries. 2011 was the first time EXARC's finances were handled by a registered accountant - needed because of the increasing responsibilities in EXARC. 2011 saw a successful relaunch of EXARCs Journal and...

Welcome two new partners in OpenArch

At the third OpenArch meeting, in Modena in April 2012, we were finally able to meet with the two new OpenArch partners in person: representatives from Viminacium, Serbia and from the University of Exeter, UK came over to meet. In preparing their participation to OpenArch, the Management Team had already met them, but none of the partners knew either Exeter or Viminacium...

Delphi Questions rise again!

Over the years 2005 - 2009 EXARC collected among its members frequently asked questions in archaeological open-air museums, as part of the Delphi project (2004-2005). As we like to show the results of EU projects EXARC has been involved in, we have added most of these questions early 2012 into our Open Archaeology website...

OpenArch complete again with 11 partners

When last year two partners dropped out of OpenArch (see here and here for more details), it was up to the Management Team to find replacing partners. We have spoken with over a dozen seriously interested museums and in December we paid a visit to two of them. Now, early spring we can gladly announce most paperwork is behind us and the OpenArch Partnership is complete again...

Call for two Volunteer experts

Villa Wellmer is calling for two volunteer expert assistants to work for the months August – October 2012 in Romania, teaching medieval carpentry techniques and stone masonry. While all logistic costs related to the workshops are covered you need to apply (and we help you) for Grundtvig Assistantship funding, covering all your eligible costs...

Open Archaeology, a world to discover

There are plenty archaeological open-air museums out there, and plenty of literature on experiments – too much to keep up really. Thanks to OpenArch, a Culture Project running until 2015, we are happy to present you a world to discover: Open Archaeology website. We have pulled some important archives, previously accessible at publicarchaeology.eu and updated the information. We have spent much work on a better search engine and other programming...

Zeitgeist workshop in Oerlinghausen, February 2012

Zeitgeist had a workshop in Oerlinghausen, Germany, 28 February – 2 March. Even though we are working together for already 1.5 years, we still welcome many new faces at our workshops. This time we could welcome some more archaeologists from the Netherlands who had recently started working at Hunebedcentrum for example...

A museum in need...

We just got word that the archaeological museum in Elbląg (Poland) has been flooded when water pipes burst. One of their biggest worries is that their library is destroyed. Their book collection was mainly about the Viking Age and especially about the Viking emporium near that city called Truso...

EXARC & La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell Visit ICOM HQ

By the end of January 2012, a delegation of four people from EXARC & La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell visited ICOM Headquarters in Paris. EXARC is an ICOM Affiliated Organisation, so it is important to better understand ICOM and how we can cooperate...

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