Health and beauty are inextricably linked. People have known that as long as they exist. During this weekend, Museum Park Archeon will show how people, from prehistoric times to the 21st century, deal with the care and well-being of their bodies.
In the last few years, ICOM and its members have reflected upon the following difficult issues. In 2017 the subject for the international museum day was Contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums, and this year it is going to be Museums for equality: Diversity and Inclusion.
Course objective: With the resources from the people of the past a dish from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age is cooked and tasted.
Course objective: Each participant goes home with a rawhide bag.
Course content: scraping the skin when wet, shaping a container, cutting rawhide strings, attaching a handle, drying the container.
Course objective: Each participant creates his own functional fire set.
Course objective: forging an iron lance or spearhead.
Course content: After an introduction to forging technology and the history of thrust and throwing weapons, each participant forges his own lance or spearhead historical model.
Course objective: Each participant acquires knowledge and practical skills in bone and antler carving and, under professional guidance, produces an object of choice according to archaeological models using the technical possibilities of the past.
Daily life in the paleolithic in South-Germany/North-Switzerland, cooking in rawhide, brain tanning, flintknapping. Working with museums in Switzerland and Germany at open days events. Present project is tanning with pigments.
Stichting Erfgoedpark Batavialand
att. EXARC
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8200 AC Lelystad
the Netherlands
Phone: +(31) 6 40263273
Website: EXARC.net
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