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Muzey Khokhlovka (RU)

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The architectural and ethnographic museum Khokhlovka (Russian: Архитектурно-этнографический музей «Хохловка») is the first open-air museum of wooden architecture in the Ural. It is located in the Perm municipal district, on the right bank of the Kama River, 43 km from Perm.

Khokhovka includes 23 unique wooden monuments from the 17th to the early 20th centuries that were moved here from different places of the Perm Krai. These structures represent the best examples of traditional and cult architecture of the peoples of the Kama region. Some of them are reconstructed, like a 1905 watchtower, copy of a 17th century original, from the Suksunsky District. The natural landscape is an important asset to the museum.

Sarawak Cultural Village (MY)

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Being the largest state in Malaysia, Sarawak covers a vast area of 124,000 sq-km of land along the northwest coast of Borneo, the third largest island in the world. To see Sarawak in one day, this is the basic concept of Sarawak Cultural Village. One leisurely stroll opens seven homes to the visitor, seven cultures, including the famous longhouses of Borneo.

The idea for the cultural village stems from the 1960s, with the first tourism as we know it now. The original idea of building a “model village” took shape close to Kuching and opened in 1989.
Sarawak Cultural Village, close to Mount Santubong, is the venue for the World Harvest Festival (April) and the Rainforest World Music Festival (July). This living museum depicts the heritage of the major cultural groups in Sarawak and conveniently portrays their respective lifestyle amidst 14 acres of tropical vegetation.

Monsopiad Cultural Village (MY)

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This is Sabah, and we are in the heartland of the Kadazandusun people. Nestled besides the Penampang River are the many traditional buildings that make up the Monsopiad Cultural Village, a living museum.

Monsopiad Cultural Village is a traditional village with historical site. Monsopiad was a fearsome headhunter warrior who lived in the village of Kuai nearly 200 years ago. His descendants have built the village to remember their ancestor, and to give visitors an extraordinary insight into their ancient and rich culture. More than just a museum, the concept of the Monsopiad Cultural Village is to document, revive and preserve the cultures and traditions, as well as the beliefs of the Kadazandusun people.

Korean Folk Village (KR)

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Minsok village is a living museum type of tourist attraction in the city of Yongin, south of Seoul, a theme park if you like. Here once can experience 19th century Korea. The purpose of Korean Folk Village is to display elements of traditional Korean life and culture.

There are multiple sections to the park with 270 replicas of traditional houses of the different social classes (peasant, landowner, yangban) from various regions. One can even find a jail here. One marks the depictions of different regions, like for example a village from the island Jejudo.
Korean Folk Village is famous for the people who wear the costume of Sato (the governors), Daejanggeum (a royal cook of palace), Kumiho (legendary fox with nine tails), Geosang (business magnate in Joseon dynasty), and more interesting characters of the Joseon Dynasty.

Giorgi Chitaia Open-Air Museum (GE)

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The Open-Air Museum of Ethnography is located 3 km south-west from Tbilisi at the Turtle Lake. The museum is named after the Georgian ethnographer who founded the museum. It represents a kind of a Georgian village where every house and every estate are a reflection of the different eras of Georgian history. It is 65 hectares large and is arranged in eleven zones, displaying around 70 buildings, starting from the Bronze Age up to the early 20th century.

One of the most famous houses is a reconstruction of an ancient Georgian dwelling - "darbazi", which looks like if it is dug into the earth surface; the roof resembles a beehive. This type of structure was used from the Bronze Age until the early 20th century AD. There are also an early Christian "Sioni" basilica from Tianeti and a 6th-7th century familial burial vault with sarcophagus.

Event Review: EXARC visits Moscow

Author(s)
Milica Tapavički-Ilić 1 ✉,
Artūrs Tomsons 2,3
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/3
Between the 1st to the 12th of June 2017, a huge festival called "Times and Epochs" (Времена и эпохи - Cобрание) was organized in Moscow. This was the occassion to gather participants not only from Russia, but also from many other countries, and demonstrate the best of reenactment to festival visitors...

Conference Review: European Textile Forum 2016

Author(s)
Heather Hopkins 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/3
The annual European Textile Forum took place from 7-13 November 2016. This year the focus was ‘mistakes’, the unintended consequences in textile manufacture or preservation that reveal more about the artefact, the techniques used and its makers than a ‘perfect’ piece could do. The programme was rich in practical experiments..

Event Review: Academic Workshop on Re-enactment, Replication & Reconstruction

Author(s)
Roeland Paardekooper 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/3
In early June 2017, an academic workshop took place in Leiden, the Netherlands, to stimulate research bridging the natural sciences with the humanities and social sciences. Forty-five international scientists joined from the fields of art history, archaeology, conservation, musicology and anthropology...

Fort Ross Conservancy (US)

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Fort Ross was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America from 1812 to 1842. In those days, Spanish colonialists came from the South into California, The Russians from the north.

Fort Ross is nowadays a California State Historic Park showcasing a historic Russian-era fort compound that has been designated National Historic Landmark status. The 3,400 acre park offers pristine natural landscapes as well as historic structures and exhibits that bring to life the former Imperial Russian settlement, early California Ranch era, and Kashaya territory.