Cooperation

EXARC is an affiliated organisation to ICOM, the International Council of Museums. We represent archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology in the international museum circles. With over 40,000 museum professionals, ICOM is represented everywhere in the museum world. ICOM sets standards in museum ethics, offers guidelines, definitions and...

Sometimes, you have a good idea for experimental archaeology research, but you lack resources. EXARC already offers its contacts, with over 400 members worldwide, its access to materials and tools around the world, literature via www.experimentalarchaeology.net. But now we add micro-funding. EXARC offers a 500 EUR for worth wile archaeological experiments...

In the years 2021-2025, Leiden University will be coordinating “Putting Life in Neolithic Houses”. EXARC is one of the partners. This project intends to perform a detailed biographical analysis of objects from a cross-craft perspective: can we detect toolkits composed of different objects made of different materials, involved in one specific activity? 

Due to COVID-19 the 2020 application round is postponed.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation–EXARC Fellowship is intended to advance the investigation and interpretation of archaeological and experimental archaeological heritage by supporting research and scholarship through a partnership between EXARC and the Colonial Williamsburg, America’s largest outdoor living history museum.

EXARC supports its membership by organising small-scale collaborations and international partnerships, often with the help of significant European Union grants. Our projects raise the profile of the participants and allow other members to benefit from their experience. Former projects included archaeo-crafts, experimental archaeology, and archaeological open-air museums...

Archaeology proves there have always been many connections over longer distances: people, artefacts and ideas have often found fertile soil elsewhere in the world. EXARC wants to highlight a few of these cases where somebody or something had a large influence in another region in the world. EXARC twinning is to bring each time two EXARC members together who otherwise would not have the chance to cooperate so easily...

NEMO's members speak for over 30.000 museums across Europe. NEMO ensures museums are an integral part of European life by promoting their work and value to policy makers and by providing museums with information, networking and opportunities for co-operation...

IMTAL Europe serves museums and heritage institutions who want to use performative methods as an educational or audience development tool, or wish for guidance in their work with re-enactment groups. IMTAL is also a network for performers, storytellers and museum professionals to exchange best practice in live interpretation...

We will celebrate the European Archaeology Days (EAD) again in 2023, introduced on a European scale in 2019, and they are here to stay!