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The primary objective of this Work Package is to run the project professionally and smoothly through a committed and experienced project bureau, run by the Lead Partner. This will consist of a project manager, a financial manager, a first and a second advisor. The bureau runs the day to day coordination.

Improvement of Museum Management

The objective of this Work Package is to enhance competence among museums directors on management issues with specific relevance to archaeological open-air museums, including health and safety issues relating to open-air constructions, working conditions for staff outdoors, environmental and ‘greening’ issues.

The Dialogue with the Visitors

This Work Package focuses on the presentation of archaeology to the public. The partners have great expertise to present and working with living history for sites and their history. We help children, young people and adults of all ages to discover their own local history with our own method. A significant asset of archaeological open-air museums is that they do not attract a limited target group.

The Dialogue with Skills

This Work Package will give a strong focus on the people that do demonstrations of traditional skills like metalworking, textile working, pottery making, woodworking et cetera. There will be specialist workshops for this target group, most generally combined in time and space with the seminars. The workshops will be for specialists, where they will exchange experiences and discuss methods et cetera.

The Dialogue with Science

This Work Package will focus on experimental archaeology and how larger-scale experiments, as co-operation between scientists from all participating countries, can contribute to make the visitor experience at archaeological open air museums even better. Larger trans-national experiments are important, but there must also be a presentation aspect in the experiments, not just the scientific value.

The Dialogue with Museum Organisations

The objective of this Work Package is to link the archaeological open-air museums more closely to the museum world at large. Joint workshops will be organised with the ICOM committee CECA (on didactics and communication / education in museums), and with other relevant organisations.

Communication and Dissemination

The objective of this Work Package is to get more visibility and therefore acceptance of the co-organisers and archaeological open-air museums in general. We need to see how each museum can bring its own message better and define a common approach, ‘a brand’ for archaeological open-air museums in Europe.

EXARC (NL)

EXARC is the ICOM* Affiliated Organisation representing archaeological open-air museums and experimental archaeology. EXARC raises the standard of scientific research and public presentation among our membership through collaborative projects, conferences and publications.
*ICOM is the International Council of Museums.

Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf (DE)

Since 1997 the Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf (AÖZA) in the country of Dithmarschen in the western part of Schleswig-Holstein is working on the aim to re-establish a cultural landscape from the Neolithic for about 5.000 years ago on an area of about 80 acres...

Archeon (NL)

After 15 years of preparation, 1994 the first Dutch archaeological theme park opened in Alphen aan den Rijn, not far from The Hague, Utrecht and Amsterdam, an area which houses 6 million inhabitants. There were two organisations, one for the preservation and reconstruction of a roman ship found in Woerden and an organisation that wanted to reconstruct a prehistoric building...

Hunebedcentrum (NL)

More than 5,000 years ago a peasant tribe erected impressive tombs, which have remained untouched for thousands of years from the ravages of time. These tombs can still be viewed up till today. A hunebed brings you face to face with prehistory. It makes you wonder how these early farmers lived, how they experienced joy and grief and how they managed to pile up those massive stones that weigh tons...

Kierikkikeskus/Kierikki Stone Age Centre (FI)

Kierikki Stone Age Centre is the biggest Stone Age Centre in Finland. It is located 55 kilometres NE from Oulu, the biggest city in Northern Finland, on the banks of the Iijoki river. The idea came from Oulu university c. 1993-94 by late professor Kyösti Julku (prof of history) and archaeologist Pentti Koivunen from Oulu University...

La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell (CAT)

1983, excavations started at Iberian Citadel of Calafell, an Iron Age / Roman Era site at Calafell (Taragona, Catalonia) under the direction of the doctors Joan Sanmartí and Joan Santacana. In 1992 the decision was taken to reconstruct the archaeological remains. The site is in a heavily tourist area on the coast. It opened in 1994 and has only been closed for renovation since, in 2006-2007...

Parco Archeologico e Museo all’aperto della Terramara di Montale (IT)

Near Modena (between Parma and Bologna), in the small village of Montale, the Modena Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum opened 2004 a satellite museum: an open-air archaeological presentation themed with the Bronze Age settlement of the Terramara Culture (II Millennium BC)...

Amgueddfa Cymru – St Fagans National History Museum (WLS)

Located in the suburb of St Fagans to the North West of Cardiff, the museum was created in 1946 in the grounds of St Fagans Castle at an area of 100 hectares. Besides dozens of ethnographic (original) buildings, moved to the site, the museum has a reconstructed manor house in Elizabethan style and three Iron Age like roundhouses...

Fotevikens Museum (SE)

The Museum of Foteviken is an Archaeological Open-Air Museum located 25 km south of Malmö, Sweden. The museum reflects the environment and life in a late Viking Age and early Middle Age town in the year of 1134 AD. A number of streets with houses and homesteads have been built inside a city wall open toward the sea. 23 buildings have been constructed...

EXARC meeting during III OpenArch meeting in Modena (IT)

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