OpenArch

The EXARC member Museo Civico Archeologico Etnologico di Modena hosts the III OpenArch meeting. EXARC members are welcome to join in, 12 to 15 April 2012. The program includes our EXARC Annual General Meeting.
The meeting is about the Dialogue with Skills, one of the main topics in OpenArch. Core of the program is the Workshop Smiths in Bronze Age Europe...

Following the 2011 Digest which was published for our members by early December, we have now published the first issue of the online EXARC Journal. It contains 11 articles on archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology. These articles are access to members only. The third category, mixed matters is open access and contains a total of 23 articles...

When the OpenArch Project had lost two partners, both for good reasons, it was decided to try and find at least one, preferably two new partners. One should best be from one of the new EU Member states and one should be good at experimental archaeology, not necessarily an archaeological open-air museum. Our search, led by our operational manager, led us to contact many EXARC members...

EXARC is growing to reach a wider audience and we get ever more good articles to publish. Therefore we have decided to change EuroREA into the EXARC Journal. Starting from 2012 the EXARC Journal is moving online and will be published three times a year, something which would not be possible do in print, and will reach beyond the boundaries of Europe. The online edition will be accompanied by the magazine EXARC JOURNAL Digest...

The conference “How to bring archaeology” to life was held from October 3rd - 7th 2011 at the Hunebedcentre in Borger, the Netherlands. Organisers were the project Zeitgeist, the project OpenArch, EXARC and the Hunebedcentre. The conference was a huge success with almost 100 participants from about ten countries. During the conference, attention was paid to different ways to...

The Borger Meeting, 3rd - 7th October 2011 was a great success with almost 100 participants from about 10 countries. The programme was well designed and executed, a big thanks to the Hunebedcentrum. The managers of the museums present had made many good and much needed decisions to ensure successful steps for OpenArchs development. Also, the atmosphere among the participants was very good...

A few PR products were made within the OpenArch project, among others shields with the OpenArch logo. Those are to be placed near the entrance of partners' premises, showing their visitors they are involved in OpenArch. Hein Klompmaker, director of the Hunebedcentrum and Ilaria Pulini, director of Parco Montale and EXARC chairman helped the Tanja Klip, Deputy of Culture (media/museums) of the Province Drenthe to reveal the shield...

At the 7th of September 2011, Kalmar County Museum decided to withdraw. This was not an easy decision. Doubts about the feasibility of running the project were already present in January 2011. The issues of the museum are not so much with the project as much as it has to do with developments in Kalmar itself. Kalmar County Museum is re-organizing...

EXARC has been publishing an annual journal on archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology since 2004. A year ago, we decided to change the journal massively. These changes are stemming from a need to improve the journal, in order to respond even more to our readers’ wishes and suggestions...