You are here

Home

heritage management

Museums as Good Places

David Anderson (UK)
Issue 2017/1
Archaeological Open-Air Museum
OpenArch Conference - 25 May 2015, Cardiff
In 1903 the American industrialist, Andrew Carnegie offered the then enormous sum of $2,500,000 to the trustees of a fund which he had created for the citizens of the city of Dunfermline, Scotland, the place of his birth. He instructed these trustees to use the money to enhance the lives of the people of the city...

Managing Archaeological Open-Air Museums: Current Issues, Future Trends

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
Issue 2015/3
Mixed Matters
OpenArch: In late May 2015, St Fagans National History Museum in Wales organized a three day meeting in and around Cardiff for OpenArch. This is a European Culture Project with 11 partners that work to improve archaeological open-air museums. The first day of the meeting was a conference on issues and trends in archaeological open-air museums...

Book Review: Förestallningar om det Förflutna by Bodil Petersson. Imaginations of the Past, Archaeology and Reconstruction.

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
Issue 2012/3
Mixed Matters
The book is written about the Scandinavian situation and for a Scandinavian public, as it is in Swedish. Although not in English and almost ten years old, it is definitely worth a read...

A field trip to the Ukraine, April 2010

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
Issue 2012/3
Mixed Matters
In April 2010, a conference took place at Olevsk, which was a good occasion to go to Kyiv and meet Dr Andrey Petrauskas of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The main purpose of the visit was to discuss the plans for reconstructions at three archaeological sites, to set it in perspective of other reconstructions elsewhere...

Conference: Danube Limes, Lussonium, a prospective archeological park in Paks, 2011 (HU)

András Neiner (HU)
Issue 2012/2
Mixed Matters

The Roman Limes was a system of borders around the Roman Empire. In several countries, these Roman sites are given much attention, take for example the UK (Hadrian’s Wall) and Germany...

Subscribe to heritage management

Openarch-logo-eu-ok.png
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Please Support EXARC

The generous support of individuals or organizations like you makes it possible for our organization to continue in our mission and to keep the EXARC community successful. Thank you for your support!

Read more about EXARC

Creative Comments

The content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 licence. If you have any queries about republishing please contact us. Please check individual images for licensing details.

FOLLOW US

EXARC

Aloëlaan 40A
2316 XT Leiden
The Netherlands
Phone: (31) 85-8770144
info@exarc.net

EXARC is the ICOM Affiliated Organisation

representing archaeological open-air museums, experimental archaeology, ancient technology and interpretation. EXARC raises the standard of scientific research and public presentation among our membership through collaborative projects, conferences and publications.
ICOM logo

USER LOGIN

© by: EXARC since 2001. All rights reserved
Ownership and Copyright | Disclaimer