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Our meaning is to link between those who in their daily life work with archaeology and those who are accidentally or professionally interested in the past. Not only an answer to the question “how” did we do that in the past, cooking food, constructing a house, living, but as well: “why” did they do it that way, what was the culture, what used to be obvious in the past but is not anymore now? The past only is useful if it is relevant to the future.
Near Marburg in Hessen, Germany, plans to build the archaeological open-air museum Zeiteninsel slowly come to fruition. They received funding for the construction of the site, but will also need to develop for example an interpretation framework. This needs to be based on the concepts behind the museum first...
Following the success of the cooperation between ICOM Netherlands and EXARC, it was an easy decision to cooperate once more, towards the ICOM General Conference in Kyoto (JP), 2019. Paardekooper chaired the workgroup, organizing a lecture session by the title “large impact by joining forces”...
The Crucial Role of Museums in Cultural Landscapes - This English-language publication contains eight contributions and is based on the international session at the ICOM General Conference in Milan in 2016, organized by ICOM Netherlands. Through an international group of experts, topics such as museums...
Following on Paardekoopers 2012 PhD dissertation at the University of Exeter discussing the use of archaeological open-air museums and with his long standing experience with archaeological open-air museums Europe-wide Paardekooper now got the chance of running such a museum...
Megalithic Routes e.V. is an association going back on a German initiative from 2004 to create routes along megalithic monuments. With about 15 members in six countries by 2014, the ambition was set to become more professional and also enlarge the circle of members and routes...
With Experiments Past the important role that experimental archaeology has played in the development of archaeology is finally uncovered and understood. Experimental archaeology is a method to attempt to replicate archaeological artefacts and/or processes to test certain hypotheses or ...
How big is experimental archaeology worldwide? And what about archaeological open-air museums? With these thoughts in mind, we developed a project to make an inventory as well as making it publicly available. This is information for the seriously interested...
With members in over 40 countries, EXARC offers a strong supportive network. Roeland Paardekooper was one of the co-founders of this network in 2001 and has been active as director of it ever since. In EXARC experimental archaeologists, staff at archaeological open-air museums...
OpenArch is a 5 Year long EU Project which includes nine archaeological open-air museums, the University of Exeter and EXARC. It runs until the end of 2015. Project goals are to improve these museums in the fields of management, visitors, crafts and science...
Professor Schindler from Washington College, MD (USA) organized a four week field work for archaeology and anthropology students from his college and fu
Under the name Ædicula, Paardekooper organised a meeting in Sweden in January 2013 to write a project application. Six archaeological open-air museums from five countries, all EXARC members, joined in a plan about adult education themed with early Christian wooden churches...
OpenArch combines many ambitions of both Paardekooper and EXARC. The core is about improving the dialogue in archaeological open-air museums with the public, with crafts and with science. Besides that, attention is paid to good contacts with...
In 2010-2012 a two year long so called “Grundtvig Learning Partnership” was active, by the name Didarchtik. This was in fact a decentralised project meaning the framework was created at the beginning, the reporting was done at the end, but the two-year project itself...
There was much interest when Paardekooper informed the EXARC members by the end of 2009 about the possibility for a simple international project under the flag of the EU Lifelong Learning Project (LLLP). In the end, 15 EXARC members intended to participate...
Coming from the background of the large interest for time travel in all its ways this project focussed on the different ways society is using time travelling. What role do the past and the future play today? What tools do people choose to travel to the past...
After many preparations and under the coordination of the Eindhoven Museum, a group of 4 people: Roeland Paardekooper, Geir Sør-Reime, Björn Jakobsen & Bert van Valburg wrote an EU Culture 2000 Application...
For RACM (National Service for Archaeology, Culture Landscape and Monuments), in the past ROB, in 2006 an inventory was made of 25 archaeological open air centres, spread across Europe. These serve as example and inspiration for those in the Netherlands who...
From 1987 onwards, there is a prehistoric-newly constructed settlement in the Natuurpark at Lelystad. When the first (Bronze Age) farm was constructed, Paardekooper spent many weekends and work weeks there. Ever since, much has happened...
In 2001, a short documentary appeared on national television. In Zelhem, a simple first church was constructed – temporarily – as reminder that 1200 years before at that same spot, Saint Ludger founded the first little church...
