Archaeological Open-Air Museum

Museums as Good Places

Author(s)
David Anderson 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/1

It was a bold and challenging brief. The trustees decided to commission two alternative reports. They invited Patrick Geddes, the pioneering biologist, sociologist, environmentalist, social reformer and city planner, to produce one of these, and T. H. Mawson the other. For Geddes, this was an opportunity to bring together his life's work across many disciplines in one visionary scheme. He spent months, with the assistance of a photographer, recording almost every square yard of the city, before submitting his plan.

The Potential for Open-Air Sites: a Diversified Approach in Emilia, Italy

Author(s)
Davide Delpiano 1 ✉,
Francesco Garbasi 1,
Filippo Fontana 2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/1
The development of open-air cultural heritage and archaeological areas is based upon their optimal safeguarding and management, and through the public awareness they generate. In this paper, considering different management issues and end goals, we will demonstrate how, through cooperation among specialized professionals, local authorities and ...

A Course in Experiential Archaeology at an Archeopark as a Part of Active University Education

Author(s)
Veronika Mikešová 1 ✉,
D. Maršálek 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/1
As with any other science, archaeology constantly adopts new methods and trends over time. University education in the field can be very helpful advancing sciences in every country. This type of education influences the early stages of future top scientists and forms their future careers. Therefore, education should reflect not only scientific innovations but also innovative educational methods...

The Wilderness Trust: Out of Eden Project (UK)

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No

The Wilderness Trust's project, Out of Eden, investigates the origins of farming and Neolithic culture in the UK through practical experimentation. This is in its early stages, carried out entirely with volunteer labour on a 50 acre site in mid-Wales.

The Wilderness Trust's project, Out of Eden, investigates the origins of farming and Neolithic culture in the UK through practical experimentation. This is in its early stages, carried out entirely with volunteer labour on a 50 acre site in mid-Wales.

Kanlıgeçit Open-Air Museum (TR)

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No

Kanlıgeçit is an Early Bronze age site 500 m south of the Kırklareli town centre excavated from 1994 to 2006 by a joint project of İstanbul University and the German Archaeological Institute. The settlement was established ca. 3200 BC as a small Thracian village but transformed and redesigned in ca. 2400 BC as a citadel imitating Anatolian town model comprising of megaron type of buildings. The site is being redesigned as an open-air museum by modelling the megaron phase of the settlement.

Kanlıgeçit is a reconstructed site; the excavated area has been covered by soil after the excavation had finished, and the buildings found, are re-built in the exact place in original size. The re-constructed buildings are not complete; they have been built as a half (some walls are a meter but most of them 50 to 70 cm high). Staff did not want to complete the upper part of the structures because of different reasons.

Asagı Pınar Open-Air Museum (TR)

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No

Aşağı Pınar is a Neolithic site in Eastern Thrace located in the town of Kırklareli 300 m south of the main Bus centre on the road to Asilbeyli village. The site was recovered by M. Özdoğan in 1980. The excavations began in 1993 as a joint Project of İstanbul University and the German Archaeological Institute; since than extensive areas have been exposed revealing an uninterrupted sequence from Early Neolithic, ca. 6200 BC to Middle Neolithic ca. 4700 BC...

Excavations have now been concentrated on the northern sector of the site, where the earliest settlement was established. The rest of the site has been designed as an open-air museum comprising of distinct units. Among them three traditional cruck-like buildings transported from the Istranca mountains have been designed with models to display the Neolithic way of life at Aşağı Pınar. Among other units experimental archaeological area, traditional crafts, training centre, natural environment of Neolithic Thrace and Time Tunnel, some of them have been finalised, other are under construction.

Peat Moors Centre - Somerset Heritage Centre (UK)

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No

The suggestion for the Centre originated from John Coles. The first roundhouses were built by Somerset County Council staff to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the Lake Village.
They closed in 2009 and are now called Somerset County Council Heritage Service, Somerset Heritage Centre.

The suggestion for the Centre originated from John Coles. The first roundhouses were built by Somerset County Council staff to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the Lake Village. They closed in 2009...

EmeSe Várispánság (HU)

Member of EXARC
No

EmeSe (European Medieval Settlement) has as main goal to promote the history and customs of the medieval Árpád-age to the wider audience with the help of professionals (archaeologists, historians, etc.) and experimental archaeology and historical reconstruction.

EmeSe (European Medieval Settlement) has as main goal to promote the history and customs of the medieval Árpád-age to the wider audience with the help of professionals (archaeologists, historians, etc.) and experimental archaeology and historical reconstruction...

Ovahimba living museum (NA)

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No

The Ovahimba Living Museum is a place where you can interactively experience the traditional culture of the Ovahimba. The Museum acts as a traditional school for guests and for the children of the own community alike and at the same time it is an income generating institution.

The Museum is strategically located between the Ovahimba capital Opuwo and the paradisiac Epupa Falls at the Kunene River in the north of Namibia.

Limeskastell Pohl (DE)

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No

Trajan's column in Rome and Replica of a Roman Fortlet and Watchtower at Pohl on the UNESCO World Heritage Site „Frontiers of the Roman Empire" by Dr. Jens Dolata, archaeologist at the Head Office for Cultural Heritage (GDKE) Rhineland-Palatinate at Mainz.

The dedication of Trajan's Column in Rome took place 1900 years ago, attested by the Fasti Ostienses in a ceremony lasting from May 10th to 12th 113. The 40 meter high monument carries a 200 meter spiral frieze depicting the development of a section of the Roman Imperial Frontier in 155 scenes with 2000 carved figures. Emperor Trajan completed with this enormous victory monument and war report his outstanding forum in the Urbs Roma.