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January 2014, Stone Age Park Dithmarschen, Germany, joined the international society “Megalithic Routes” and is allowed to now use the phrase “Cultural Route of the Council of Europe”. The Stone Age Park is member of EXARC.

Thanks to a wonderful organisation, almost 90 participants met for a five days filled with workshops, breakout sessions and lectures about "Working with stones in European Pre- and Protohistory in theory and in practice" at the Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf (DE)

EXARC is very active on Facebook, both for our members as well as for others professionally interested. We for example manage or co-manage two active groups, one on experimental archaeology, the other one archaeological open-air museums (AOAM)...

On September 1st 2013, as part of the ongoing Dialogue with the Visitor, Archeon was host to a large group of visually impaired visitors. For the occasion, a special park guide was produced in braille. However, the rest of the day was conducted as an everyday visit to Archeon, to test how accessible the park is to the visually impaired. Archeon passed with flying colors.

The visually impaired visitors went through the three time periods and listened for the sounds of animals or craftspeople at work, smelled the scent of fresh bread and woodsmoke and touched as many historical replicas as possible – including a ‘dead’ gladiator!

With an official ceremony in Denmark, The Council of Europe certified the organisation “Megalithic Routes” as ‘”European Route of Megalithic culture”. On 27 August, the Megalithic Routes Chair Bodo Zehn received the certificate in the presence of the Culture Minister of Denmark, Marianne Jelved...

We have just released our latest EXARC Journal Digest. It was sent to our members only and covers the best articles we published online over the past six months. Interested to know more? Join EXARC and become part of a tight-knit network of (semi) professionals in over 30 countries worldwide.

See Journal at www.exarc.net/journal.

The largest Museum Convention worldwide, ICOM in Rio 2013, was attended by EXARC. Financed by the EU Project OpenArch, EXARC Treasurer Luc Eekhout was in Brazil as one of the 2,000 delegates. Eekhout presented archaeological open-air museums in this...

The EXARC Journal 2013/2 contains articles such as  Aspects on Realizing House Reconstructions: a Scandinavian Perspective or  Testing a Reconstruction: A Frosty Week in a Viking Age House and much more.