Interpretation

From Mead to Snakebite - An Ethnography of Modern British University Sports Team Drinking Culture and its Parallels with the Drinking Rituals of the Viking World

Author(s)
Matt Austin 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/1
7th UK EA Conference Cardiff 2013
***The idea for this paper came, as these things often do, in a bar. The interesting twist was that instead of being an inebriated patron, I was actually working behind the bar observing the scenes of intoxicated students with a bemused expression. What began as a joke...

“You could See it [the Past] in your Mind”: What Impact might Living History Performance Have on the Historical Consciousness of Young People?

Author(s)
Ceri Jones 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/1
2012 OpenArch meeting at Foteviken (SE)
***Living history is used as part of a range of interpretive techniques to help young people experience and learn about the past at museums and historic sites (Samuel 1994). Although the benefits of bringing the past to life have been enthusiastically supported by costumed interpreters, museum and...

A Playground Amongst Museums - The Bauspielplatz: from an Open-air Youth Centre to a History Experience Site - an Unusual Development

Author(s)
Frank Kock 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/2
Being a Bauspielplatz [adventure playground] usually means that children have a place to meet, play, be creative, get in contact with animals and nature and even do ‘dangerous’ things - with some pedagogical guidance. It is part of local social work, similar to a youth centre...

Crafting the Past: Theory and Practice of Museums

Author(s)
Katherine Ambry Linhein Muller 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/1
How do we know something is real? We say something exists when it is tangible and we can touch it; it is factual when we can compare it to other known variables, and historic when it fulfils our expectation of the past. There are objects and activities that blur these categories and cause people to accept alternative histories...

Authenticity is Fiction? Relicts, Narration and Hermeneutics

Author(s)
Jörg van Norden
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/3
In many ways, authenticity is everybody’s darling: the historian searches for authentic, historic texts in order to write down history objectively; the readers, naturally, appreciate an authentic description of the past; and museum visitors want to see authentic originals, not replicas...

To Be or Not to Be: Thoughts on Living History - Some Personal Remarks

Author(s)
Thit Birk Petersen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/3
This article is based on personal experiences and observations conducted through many years as a volunteer at the Middle Age Centre in Denmark and later as a student at the Open Air Museum, Sorgenfri, Denmark. Observations and remarks made are solely personal and the article reflects thoughts I have had throughout the years...

Public Outreach in the Drents Museum in Assen (NL)

Author(s)
Blue van der Zwan-Deen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Part of my job as museum teacher at the Drents Museum in Assen is attending to the all the groups that visit our museum. This includes the great number of children, both elementary school and high school students, that visit our museum. A lot of children think of a museum as a boring place where there is nothing to do but look at old paintings...

International Learning Partnership: Living History and Adult Education in the Museum

Author(s)
Susanne Wiermann 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Many archaeological open-air museums and museums with indoor reconstructions choose to interpret history using the method of ‘living history’, or re-enactments. If one only counts the German references, there is wide variety of terms used by museums when they talk of ‘living history’...

Varus and the Lost Legions in Sagnlandet Lejre - A Re-enactment Success?

Author(s)
Ane Jepsen 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/1

In July 2009 a battle took place in Sagnlandet Lejre, in the heart of Zealand in Denmark. The battle was a dramatized re-enactment of the historical battle of Teutoburg forest in Niedersachsen in the year 9 AD - also known as the Varus Battle. Why should such a re-enactment event take place in Denmark - over 100 kilometres from the presumed site of the historic battle?...