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Submitted by EXARC on Sat, 09/03/2013 - 18:53
Between 1937 and 1963 the remains of three
Bronze Age vessels were discovered at North Ferriby on the Humber foreshore. Bronze Age sewn-plank boats are unique to England and Wales. The longest were 16 meters in length and made of oak...
Submitted by CI Calafell on Wed, 30/01/2013 - 15:50
The structure of the OpenArch Management Team has had some changes recently. Since December 18th 2012, Clara Masriera is no longer the Project Manager after developing this role since the beginning of OpenArch. Since January 1st 2013, Roeland Paardekooper will not carry out the role of Operational Manager...
Submitted by Amgueddfa Cymru on Mon, 14/01/2013 - 00:00
Early January saw the 7th UK Conference on Experimental Archaeology in Cardiff. With 20 speakers from over 6 countries, several demonstrations, lots of posters and an excursion to St Fagans it was a very successful edition. The over 100 participants came from academia, archaeological open-air museums, skills backgrounds or otherwise.
Submitted by EXARC on Sat, 29/12/2012 - 12:06
By the end of 2012, we produced a new brochure about EXARC. In eight pages it describes what EXARC has to offer, inlc Journal online and Digest, EU projects: like OpenArch, and its product - Open Archaeology website...
Submitted by CI Calafell on Tue, 04/12/2012 - 20:31
The OAM Calafell was invited by the Regional Culture and
Education Ministry of the Government of Extremadura and the Association of Cultural Managers of Extremadura to deliver a lecture in the framework of the Industrial and Creative Conferences that took place on December 3-4, 2012 in Mérida...
Submitted by EXARC on Thu, 04/10/2012 - 12:20
The workshop organized by University of Exeter, Department of Archaeology (UK), aims to provide a solid grounding in the methods and pedagogies of experimental archaeology and present a variety of examples to show how these principles can be put into practice...
Submitted by EXARC on Sun, 30/09/2012 - 11:41
Over 120 people met for our conference in Foteviken, Sweden last week and it was a great success. All in all, over 20 countries were represented Not only EXARC and OpenArch members were present, also members of IMTAL Europe, NOOAM and the Swedish Heritage Board as well as many individuals...
Submitted by EXARC on Wed, 01/08/2012 - 21:58
Over the months June and July, the OpenArch Operational Manager met with eight of the eleven partners in the project in person. Discussions were about the state of progress, issues regarding the interim report and travel details for the near future, including our upcoming meeting in Sweden. We exchanged thoughts on how things could be improved, both in the project structure as how partners deal with it in their own organisation.
Submitted by EXARC on Wed, 25/07/2012 - 21:49
Recently, a millions-pounds application with the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop and enrich the St Fagans Museum has been awarded. The National Museum Wales will develop Llys Rhosyr, one of the courts of the princes of Gwynedd, where school children will be able to stay overnight.
Submitted by EXARC on Wed, 18/07/2012 - 07:14
On July 17th 2012 the first
amber find found at the
Kierikki Stone Age Centre since 2007 was found by 11 year old Hedvig Hautala during the public excavations held at the centre in Oulu region Finland. Hedvig was visiting the Kierikki Stone Age Centre with her brother and godparents when she uncovered pieces of an amber disc pendant.
Submitted by Hunebedcentrum on Fri, 08/06/2012 - 00:00
Early June, cooperation between the Hunebedcentrum (NL) and St Fagans (WLS) resulted in an exhibition. This is a presentation of Welsh megalithic monuments, their history and purpose through times. ‘Shadowlands’ as the exhibition is called would never find its way to the Netherlands if not both museums had met in the backdrop of the OpenArch project...
Submitted by EXARC on Thu, 19/04/2012 - 11:47
At the third OpenArch meeting, in Modena in April 2012, we were finally able to meet with the two new OpenArch partners in person: representatives from
Viminacium, Serbia and from the
University of Exeter, UK came over to meet. In preparing their participation to OpenArch, the Management Team had already met them, but none of the partners knew either Exeter or Viminacium...
Submitted by EXARC on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 09:40
When last year two partners dropped out of OpenArch (see
here and
here for more details), it was up to the Management Team to find replacing partners. We have spoken with over a dozen seriously interested museums and in December we paid a visit to two of them. Now, early spring we can gladly announce most paperwork is behind us and the OpenArch Partnership is complete again...
Submitted by EXARC on Sat, 17/03/2012 - 21:32
There are plenty
archaeological open-air museums out there, and plenty of literature on experiments – too much to keep up really. Thanks to
OpenArch, a Culture Project running until 2015, we are happy to present you a world to discover:
Open Archaeology website. We have pulled some important archives, previously accessible at publicarchaeology.eu and updated the information. We have spent much work on a better search engine and other programming...
Submitted by EXARC on Thu, 26/01/2012 - 16:52
The EXARC member
Museo Civico Archeologico Etnologico di Modena hosts the III OpenArch meeting. EXARC members are welcome to join in,
12 to 15 April 2012. The program includes our EXARC Annual General Meeting.
The meeting is about the Dialogue with Skills, one of the main topics in
OpenArch. Core of the program is the
Workshop Smiths in Bronze Age Europe...
Submitted by EXARC on Thu, 15/12/2011 - 23:28
When the OpenArch Project had lost two partners, both for good reasons, it was decided to try and find at least one, preferably two new partners. One should best be from one of the new EU Member states and one should be good at
experimental archaeology, not necessarily an
archaeological open-air museum. Our search, led by our operational manager, led us to contact many EXARC members...
Submitted by Hunebedcentrum on Sat, 15/10/2011 - 22:51
The conference “How to bring archaeology” to life was held from
October 3rd - 7th 2011 at the Hunebedcentre in Borger, the Netherlands. Organisers were the project
Zeitgeist, the project
OpenArch, EXARC and the Hunebedcentre. The conference was a huge success with almost 100 participants from about ten countries. During the conference, attention was paid to different ways to...
Submitted by EXARC on Sun, 09/10/2011 - 20:57
The Borger Meeting, 3rd - 7th October 2011 was a great success with almost 100 participants from about 10 countries. The programme was well designed and executed, a big thanks to the Hunebedcentrum. The managers of the museums present had made many good and much needed decisions to ensure successful steps for OpenArchs development. Also, the atmosphere among the participants was very good...
Submitted by EXARC on Wed, 05/10/2011 - 21:31
A few PR products were made within the OpenArch project, among others shields with the OpenArch logo. Those are to be placed near the entrance of partners' premises, showing their visitors they are involved in OpenArch. Hein Klompmaker, director of the Hunebedcentrum and Ilaria Pulini, director of Parco Montale and EXARC chairman helped the Tanja Klip, Deputy of Culture (media/museums) of the Province Drenthe to reveal the shield...
Submitted by EXARC on Wed, 07/09/2011 - 21:38
At the 7th of September 2011, Kalmar County
Museum decided to withdraw. This was not an easy decision. Doubts about the feasibility of running the project were already present in January 2011. The issues of the museum are not so much with the project as much as it has to do with developments in Kalmar itself. Kalmar County Museum is re-organizing...
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