Newest Era

Children's art night & exhibition

Date
-
Organised by
Ekehagen Forntidsby (SE)
Country
Sweden

Welcome to Ekehagen on Art Night on Falbygden-Tidaholm! The cafeteria is open Friday-Sunday with coffee, homemade cake and food!

Eldfest (evening / night Saturday-Sunday): Welcome to a sparkling and flaming eldfest with spectacle, torchlight procession and fire show in the prehistoric village. More information on times and prices will come on the museum's website.

Harvest Feast

Date
Organised by
Vitlycke Museum (SE)
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.

Day of Archaeology

Date
Organised by
Federseemuseum (DE)
Country
Germany

What do archaeologists actually do? In four archaeological museums in the region you will get an answer. The Federseemuseum, the two Heuneburg museums in Herbertingen-Hundersingen and the Bachritterburg in Kanzach give an insight into their work on 15,000 years of history in Upper Swabia, from the excavation to the archaeological reconstruction.

Mayday Bank Holiday

Date
-
Organised by
Amgueddfa Cymru – St Fagans National History Museum (UK)
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

St Fagans' Craft Weekend
Date
-
Organised by
Amgueddfa Cymru – St Fagans National History Museum (UK)
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

Author(s)
Evelyn Fidler 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/2
When I read the title, I particularly looked forward to reading this book and I was not disappointed. I am glad I was allowed to review it. Colonial Williamsburg has been held up to me as an example to follow when interpreting in living history and open air museums and also criticised when they don’t get it right...

Book Review: The Movement - Comments on the Booklet How to Organize a Historical Event involving Reenactment Groups

Author(s)
Ingrid Galadriel Aune Nilsen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2017/2

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.

Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskiy Folk Museum (UA)

Member of EXARC
No

At the ethnographic open-air museum in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskiy (near Kyiv) you can find the wooden houses and places of worship of the 17th – 19th centuries as well as reconstructed buildings of earlier eras.

On the territory there are a numerous of museums (embroidery, ceremonies, transportation, bread, space, museum-mail, etc.). The museum is set in an open-air area of 30 hectares and includes many buildings, museums, churches, and a unique atmosphere. Here you can learn about how different segments of the population lived in the Ukraine in the old days. The museum is an important cultural and educational institutions to help assess the cultural heritage of the past, reveal traces of interference of cultures and see local history of the Middle Dnieper Region.

Museum Village (US)

Member of EXARC
No

Museum Village is a unique and inviting open-air historical museum which offers visitors the opportunity to explore vignettes of 19th century American life. Using a large collection of eclectic artefacts, the museum provides hands-on educational experiences and exhibits that illustrate the transition from a rural to an industrial culture and economy in America.

While visiting the exhibit buildings now at Museum Village, you can shop in a 130-year-old general store, see a real Mastodon skeleton, make a candle, step inside a 200-year-old log cabin, sit in a one-room schoolhouse, and watch a broom being made. All that and be home in time for dinner!