Late Middle Ages

Public Outreach in the Drents Museum in Assen (NL)

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Blue van der Zwan-Deen 1 ✉
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Part of my job as museum teacher at the Drents Museum in Assen is attending to the all the groups that visit our museum. This includes the great number of children, both elementary school and high school students, that visit our museum. A lot of children think of a museum as a boring place where there is nothing to do but look at old paintings...

International Learning Partnership: Living History and Adult Education in the Museum

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Susanne Wiermann 1 ✉
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Many archaeological open-air museums and museums with indoor reconstructions choose to interpret history using the method of ‘living history’, or re-enactments. If one only counts the German references, there is wide variety of terms used by museums when they talk of ‘living history’...

Archaeological Open-Air Museums in the Netherlands, a Bit of History

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Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
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This article is a result of my interest in, and experience with, archaeological open-air museums. With the start of HOME Eindhoven in 1982, I became actively involved in these museums and I was one of the people involved from the first moment in EXARC. From 2005 onward, I have been conducting postgraduate research at the University of Exeter into archaeological open-air museums...

Discussion: Archaeological Reconstruction in Situ

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John H. Jameson 1,2,3,4,
Wulf Hein 5 ✉,
Hannah Simons 6,
Heather Hopkins 7,
Paul Bidwell 8,
Hans Trauner 9,
Marquardt Lund 10,
Renger Elburg 11,
Gary Ball 12,
Martin Müller 13
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Is interpreting a site’s past only possible at that site itself? Is a site better off without reconstruction and interpretation because it only damages the original material, if any is still left? Or is this the only way to salvage the story of the site for the generations to come? Ten authors were asked to give their views on the quote: “archaeological reconstruction in situ is the best way to tell the site's own story - on site. Otherwise the site is destroyed or the story lost" – and it is not that straightforward a yes or no.

Conference Review: Reconstruction “in Situ”, International Archaeological Meeting of Calafell, 2011

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Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
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March 2011, EXARC convened for the 17th time, this time in Calafell, Catalonia, Spain. We could go along with the 6th international archaeology meeting of Calafell, a biannual conference. Three days long, from 9:30h in the morning until 19:30h in the evening, we listened to about...

Conference Review: International Öguf-Symposium 2010

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Alexandra Krenn-Leeb 1 ✉
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Prehistory and Early History (ÖGUF) took place 27-30 October at The Museum for Natural History in Vienna under the patronage of State Captain and Mayor of Vienna Dr. Michael Häupl – and the general director of the Museum for Natural History Vienna, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Köberl. Theme was experimental archaeology: theory, practice, science, education...

Conference Review: European Textile Forum 2010

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Heather Hopkins 1 ✉
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The Textilforum was founded to bring practitioners of all textile crafts together, to compare notes and to learn from each other. Following the success of the first Textilforum, held in Eindhoven in September 2009, this year’s was held in Schnalstal, in South Tyrol, the German-speaking part of Northern Italy from 6-12 September...

Conference Review: Accidental and Experimental Archaeometallurgy

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Ruth Fillery-Travis 1 ✉
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The Historical Metallurgy Society’s Annual Conference, 2-3 September 2010
The Historical Metallurgy Society was established in the early 1970s and is dedicated to providing a forum for the exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of research on the metallurgical practices of the past...

Conference Review: EXARC General Meeting 2010

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Jodi Reeves Flores 1 ✉
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The EXARC General Meeting was held in Cardiff, Wales, UK from the 5-7 of March 2010. Participants visited St. Fagans, an open-air museum, on Saturday the 6th. This review focuses on the papers and the discussion that took place on Sunday the 7th, entitled Open Air and Experimental Archaeology in the UK: recent work and ongoing projects...