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Based on our experience in PR for Archaeological Open-Air Museums in 2013 we wrote a manual on Communication and PR. It includes Strategies for Archaeological Open-Air Museums.

From March 1, 2015 it is available online.

The EXARC Journal consists of   Mixed Matters articles, and peer-reviewed articles. To view 2015-1 click here. Since 15th February 2015 the 2013-1 Issue of EXARC Journal is Open Access.

We would like to inform you about the two workshops this term at Exeter University on basketry (rush willow and other materials) and flintknapping. It is meant for OpenArch Partners.

Note that  Dr Bradley has pitched the latter at 'improvers' because it is impossible to get a good experience with enough flint for the three days if everyone is a beginnner.

Together with UCD & INHP we enjoyed a wonderful conference in Dublin 15-18 January 2015. Over 200 delegates from almost 30 countries and a variety of backgrounds joined for three days of lectures, workshops and excursions revolving around experimental archaeology. Of course we also spent one day at an archaeological open-air museum, the Irish National Heritage Park.

EXARC is an affiliated Organisation to ICOM, the global federation of museums and museum professionals. There are dozens of good reasons to join ICOM. Here the three most important ones...

On November 15th we published our fourth online issue of the EXARC Journal this year. You can find it at EXARC.net/issue-2014-4. The Journal 2014-4 contains 10 articles. Several articles about experimentation with pottery, an article on logboats at Butser Ancient Farm, several interviews and book reviews. In total 7 articles are Open Access...

Soon you will have in your hands our second Digest of the year. We are getting used to the new rhythm and hope that our readers find the new format of four issues yearly and two printed Digests satisfactory. In this Digest we bring you our choice of abridged articles, this time from issues 2014/2 and 2014/3. In total 11 articles and a few book reviews...

October 2014, a few dozen EXARC members and other colleagues met in Viminacium, Serbia. This was the 8th conference of OpenArch and the theme was "The Impact of the Dialogue with Visitors on Management in Archaeological Open-Air Museums". Staging this meeting in Serbia offered the chance for many colleagues from Serbia itself and surrounding countries like Macedonia...

A promise is a promise: all members’ only articles of our Journal go open access after two years! Now it is time for the material dating to winter 2012. Four articles receive special attention. We discuss Etruscan ceramics and female labour, the state of experimental archaeology in Switzerland; Authenticity is Fiction (?) and living history in Denmark...

Spring 2014, events at the Terramara Park of Montale were dedicated to the 10th birthday were a success. Those attracted 4,300 people raising the total number of visitors since 2004 to 170,000. September 14, the Park opens the Autumn season with a program of events and demonstrations of ancient techniques which the inhabitants of the terramare were very experienced at, as the archaeological finds prove.