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archaeology
is a source of information about the past; our own past, “the here and then” so to say. Who do we want to have been? And how do we “know” that? Archaeology provides us with information about |
| the daily life of the past, of ordinary people, but as well about the very high and very low class people. It is a kind of “monkey watching” and as well: “how did people live back then without electricity, without all the comforts we now have? Were they smarter because they were more inventive with the simple means they had? Or were people back then more backward because they hadn’t invented yet all those things we now ...?” |
| “Who do we want to have been” also counts for the public. We can understand each other better if we know our own backgrounds, also those of our parents and ancestors. Of course we live in the present and not in the past. We can’t relive the past at all, but we can learn from it. Often this is even fun, both for the young and old. The public is very often quite interested, because the past is something personal, something very near. And a presentation with a low threshold is in that case an excellent means to bring the past closer by. |
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After many preparations and under the coordination of the Historisch OpenluchtMuseum Eindhoven, a group of 4 people: Roeland Paardekooper, Geir Sør-Reime (our Norwegian advisor for Cultural EU projects), Björn Jakobsen (director of the Swedish Fotevikens Museum) & Bert van Valburg (the then director of the Eindhoven Museum) wrote an EU Culture 2000 Application with which 8 archaeological open air museums work closely together and exchange experiences to get more professional.
LiveARCH stems from EXARC.
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| November 2006 was the start of this three year project, coordinated by Roeland Paardekooper, Archeo Interface and Bert van Valburg, Flexmanagement. These two gentlemen function as project bureau, both facilitating and leading. The 8 partners of liveARCH as this project is called come from 8 different countries, not just with different cultural backgrounds, but different in organisation as well. The project bureau must steer the communication and guarantee that the 8 partners come for real with the promised results. LiveARCH has a total budget of 1.4 million Euro. |
| LiveARCH has come to a successful end in October 2009. |
 First meeting of liveARCH, January 2007, Eindhoven (NL) |
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