Newest Era
What to Blame for the Atmosphere Change in Re-enactment Camps? Personal View
Midsummer Celebration
Country
- Sweden
14.00h we begin to dress the maypole to the folk music of a folk group
15.00h maypole erected by the folk dance team folk dancing. Games around the maypole
Free entrance if you wear folk costume.
We suggest you bring your own pillow or chair.
Archaeology Day
Country
- Sweden
During the Archaeology Day we will hold exciting activities at Foteviken Viking Museum, with inspiration and deep dives into the Viking history for young and old alike. We will also offer guided tours of the Viking town.
Harvest Feast
Country
- Sweden
Experience an old-fashioned harvest feast and help to preserve Vitlycke Meadow! We work together and show how a scythe should be used for best results.
A meadow can accommodate 40-50 species of flowers and grass per square meter. Today, only small bits of all the fields remain that once were important because they gave winter fodder for the animals.
Archaeology Day old
Country
- Germany
How does an excavation work? How do archaeologists find their treasures? And what is experimental archaeology? This and much more will be experienced by young and old on the day of archaeology in the open-air museum. Also the special exhibition can be visited from this day!
Mayday Bank Holiday
Country
- United Kingdom
May Day has heralded the start of summer for many hundreds of years in Wales. It’s time for the Green Man to wake up from his winter sleep as the buds burst and life returns to the woods and fields. The day is marked with merriment, music and what must surely be the most famous of all the folk dances, the raising of the maypole.
St Fagans' Craft Weekend
Country
- United Kingdom
Craft and making is at the heart of St Fagans and its collections. Our new galleries are filled with handmade objects - some over 200,000 years old. From the humblest bowl to the finest textiles – the urge to shape, make, mend and decorate and has always been with us.
Join us as we celebrate craft and creativity across the Museum this weekend.
Book Review: Representation of the Past in Public Spheres. Experiencing the Past: the Reconstruction and Recreation of History at Colonial Williamsburg by Martine Teunissen
Book Review: The Movement - Comments on the Booklet How to Organize a Historical Event involving Reenactment Groups
What defines re-enactment and living history?
As I believe that a clarification of terms and the contextualisation of matters is a good starting point for any investigation, this question marks the beginning of my guide (Aune Nilsen 2015:6-7). Talking to organisers, museum workers and re-enactors in Scandinavia, I have noted that they all have different answers to this question.