Mixed Matters

RETOLD: Review of the Meeting at Batavialand, Lelystad, September 2024

RETOLD: Review of the Meeting at Batavialand, Lelystad, September 2024
Author(s)
Federico Cappadona 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/4
This year between September 1-3, EXARC held a conference specifically focused on the topic of Digitalisation in Open-Air Museums and the cultural sector. Co-organised by the Batavialand Museum in Lelystad (the Netherlands), the event brought together the RETOLD partners and several professionals from around the world...

Book Review: Interpreting Science at Museums and Historic Sites by Debra A. Reid (eds)

Book Review: Interpreting Science at Museums and Historic Sites by Debra A. Reid (eds)
Author(s)
John Majerle 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/4
We live in a time when advances in science and technology can quickly outpace our ability to understand its impact on our past, present, and future. Interpreting Science at Museums and Historic Sites provides insights into how museums and historic sites can bridge this gap so that we can better understand the past and perhaps influence future social directions for the better...

RETOLD: CIDOC CRM and the Documentation of Buildings and Crafts

RETOLD: CIDOC CRM and the Documentation of Buildings and Crafts
Author(s)
Cordula Hansen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/4
Cultural heritage documentation is the process of systematically recording and preserving information about historical artifacts, monuments, traditions, and other intangible cultural expressions. One of the primary aims of the RETOLD project was to create a prototype for immersive digital storytelling that communicates cultural information to diverse audiences...

Book Review: Experimental Archaeology: Reconstruction of Material Heritage of Lithuania, Volume I by Daiva Luchtaniene (ed)

Author(s)
Mante van den Heuvel 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/4

I am honoured to write a review of the book Eksperimentinė archeologija, Lietuvos materialaus paveldo rekonstrukcija, I tomas or Experimental archaeology, Reconstruction of Material Heritage of Lithuania, volume I; compiled by Daiva Luchtanienė. I have to admit that I know very little about Lithuania and their experimental archaeology and I was looking forward to learning more...

Event Review: Bronze Casting in Daugailiai, Lithuania

Bronze Casting in Daugailiai, Lithuania
Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/4
On 13 July 2024 the village of Daugailiai celebrated the 770th year of its founding on with a festival that included demonstrations and experiments in bronze casting. Daugailiai is a village in Utena County in Northeast Lithuania. The village features a hillfort, which is dated to 1st millennium BC-beginning of 1st Millenium AD, upon which a castle was built in 1254 and...

Book Review: "The dream of The Old Town – Memories and reflections from a lifetime as museum director by Thomas Bloch Ravn" by Helle Ingerslev Kristensen

Book Review: "The dream of The Old Town – Memories and reflections from a lifetime as museum director by Thomas Bloch Ravn" by Helle Ingerslev Kristensen
Author(s)
Helle Ingerslev Kristensen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/4
After 28 years in the director's chair, Bloch Ravn tells vividly and in detail about the many years of work in running and developing the museum Den Gamle By (or in English: The Old Town) towards becoming the great flagship for culture and tourism in East Jutland, Denmark...

Conference Review: EXARC at the EAA, Belfast, September 2023

Conference Review: EXARC at the EAA, Belfast, September 2023
Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3

The purpose of the session, co-chaired by Brendan O’Neill and Rena Maguire (UCD) and Giovanna Fregni, was to bring together researchers working in different fields who engage in experimental archaeology as part of their work. Its aim was to fuse experimental and experiential archaeology with reconstructing past narratives. The session was well-attended, and not only because of the bespoke EXARC biscuits! The papers were divided into the categories of organic materials, pyrotechnic processes, and educational and cultural significance.

Nesshenge: an Experimental Neolithic Henge with 15 Years of Exposure

Nesshenge: an experimental Neolithic henge with 15 years of exposure
Author(s)
John Hill 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3
Our understanding of the planning processes involved before any Neolithic structure was physically built, from the moment when it was conceived in a person’s mind up to the point of its construction requires further investigation for which experimental archaeology can provide some direction...

RETOLD: Unlocking the potential of archaeological house reconstructions by standardizing documentation in open-air museums – experiences from the Museumsdorf Düppel in Berlin, Germany

RETOLD: Unlocking the potential of archaeological house reconstructions by standardizing documentation in open air museums – experiences from the Museumsdorf Düppel in Berlin, Germany
Author(s)
Julia Heeb 1 ✉,
Svea Röbke 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2024/3
The Museumsdorf Düppel – a medieval archaeological open-air museum in Berlin – is a good example a bottom-up museum project from the 1970’s. The idea to create an open-air museum was born after the excavation of a medieval settlement had brought to light several house features, wells and objects ranging from pottery sherds to iron artefacts, in south-western Berlin...