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 like more traditional museums do. Different layers of the population, with different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds equally visit these museums and learn from it.

Focus will be on the following elements:

•	Setting the local site and community in a European cultural context, understanding its role in a past contemporary setting, making the local globally significant (this is also part of the ‘creation of a story’);
•	Creating a story of the site that is, interpreting the intangible parts of the archaeological past into a reconstruction that will form the base for interpretation and intermediation. The project will organise a (series of) workshop(s) on reconstructing intangible culture, a kind of experiments in intangible culture.
•	Didactics (education staff) – different ways of presenting history (guiding, role-play etc.) and how to address different types of audiences – the topic for at least one seminar / workshop organised by the project, focussing on education of groups as well as families.

There will be one annual seminar in this Work Package.