EXARC Meetings

12th EXARC meeting

March 16th - 18th, 2007, EXARC met in Pitlochry, Scotland. This was a meeting, hosted by the Scottish Crannog Centre. EXARC members were observers during the 2nd liveARCH conference themed with "the dialogue with visitors". The conference was a great success and included an intensive workshop on interpreting history / archaeology as well as a one day conference with several presentations from various countries about the dialogue with visitors...

11th EXARC meeting

March 16th - 19th, 2006 EXARC met again in Százhalombatta, Hungary. This was the only conference of EXARC that year. The first three days, 24 EXARC participants from 10 countries joined into the 2nd International Conference on experimental archaeology and archaeological parks, which took place simultaneously, with over 20 presentations and 60 participants...

10th meeting of EXARC - a closer cooperation with liveARCH

The Living History Museums and archaeological open-air museums of Europe join their resources. From 11th – 13th November 2005, the members of EXARC met in Asparn an der Zaya (AT), north of Vienna. In the Metternich-Schloß, the director of the Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum für Urgeschichte, Dr. Ernst Lauermann, welcomed the 25 museum directors and employees who travelled down to the meeting from Austria, Germany, France, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Hungary...

9th EXARC meeting

March 11th - 13th, 2005 In Spring 2005, members of EXARC convened for the 9th time, in Foteviken, Sweden. The initiators of this meeting were, besides EXARC, the EU-project BALTIC+, Region Scania, and The EU-project Destination Viking. 34 Participants from 5 countries joined in a two days seminar concerning the mediation of our living historical heritage, in Sweden and the rest of Europe...

8th EXARC meeting

November 12th - 14th, 2004
EXARC joined for its 8th meeting with over 40 participants from 10 countries in November 2004 at the Archaeological Museum Biskupin in Poland. This meeting was meant as a work session on the INTERREG propositions of which more information under "EU projects - liveARCH"...

1st EU Project introduced at the 6th EXARC Meeting

October 13th - 15th, 2003
At our 6th EXARC meeting in Autumn 2003 in Százhalombatta, Hungary information was shared between the members on the EU. Besides the meeting for members, about 7 presentations were given on ongoing or future projects in experimental archaeology and reconstruction. We are clear in what we want, we only need to cast it in a form. We were informed about CULTURE 2000 possibilities...

Lejre – official founding

March 14th - 16th, 2003, the members of EXARC convened in Lejre, Denmark. This Lejre meeting (5th EXARC meeting) formed a challenge because of the attempts to produce food for thought on content. Results are published on this website as well as in our magazine EuroREA. Besides of the content, presented both formally in lectures as informally during the tours, diners and the after program, we had an official session of the EXARC members...

Riga – 80 participants

June 6th - 9th, 2002 The first meeting which exceeded the technical level was in June 2002 in Latvia (it was the 3rd EXARC meeting organised by Araisi Archaeological Museum Park at the Latvian National History Museum), a symposium on “Ancient clothing and wooden buildings: research, reconstruction and ways of their modern use”...