Studied history at Leiden University. Director of the National Dutch Carriage Museum (1992-2010), Director of the Eindhoven Museum (2010-2014), Director Heeswijk Castle (2015-present), Chairman of International Council of Museums (ICOM), National Committee The Netherlands (2016-2019).
My involvement with experimental archaeology started with a full-scale reconstruction of an early medieval 'Frisian' farm building in the north of the Netherlands.
The workcamps in Calafell are coordinated by the Fundació Pere Tarrés, a non-profit organisation of social action devoted to the promotion of leisure education and volunteering among other objectives, and the municipality of Calafell is one of the organisations that support these workcamps. So far La Ciutadella Ibèrica has held three of these projects (2010, 2012 and 2013) with international volunteers being the core theme of the activity.
Museum theatre as an umbrella-term is used to describe a variety of performative events aimed to interpret fragments of cultural heritage. In the framework of one of the main challenges contemporary museums face, that of having a social impact while dealing with heritage, whom values and narratives can always be “contested and disputed” (Smith 2011, 70), museum theatre has proved that not only can it enforce a constructivist approach in a museum environment but it can also generate debate and promote critical thinking on controversial issues (Farthing 2010).
A chance to bring your own apples to be crushed into juice in our Roman Apple press! Bring a container! Lots of heritage crafters from around Dorset will be showing their skills including woodworkers, a forager, local wildlife conservation groups, historic groups, our storyteller in the Earthhouse and Living History Display from a Viking group.
Beside the permanent exhibitions, the museum has an open air wide area with both the village and the country life of one hundred years ago.
Not far from Belfast, the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum meets the visitor with both the permanent exhibition and the open air village of one hundred years ago.
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