The OpenArch project in the nutshell final

A five year Culture project with 11 partners, building on the
success of EXARC. Our objective is to create a permanent
partnership of archaeological open-air museums throughout
Europe. The ultimate goal of OpenArch is to help museums and
their broader network to become more professional, and to
demonstrate the value of working on a European level for the
benefit of the visitor experience.
2011 - 2015

Coordinator
La Ciutadella Ibérica
de Calafell (CAT)
The Iberian Citadel of Calafell is a centre of experimental archaeology,
an archaeological open-air museum where visitors can see what life was like in the
Iron Age 2,500 years ago. It is the first archaeological site in the Iberian Peninsula
to have been reconstructed by using experimental archaeological techniques.
OpenArch Partners

Coordinator
La Ciutadella Ibérica
de Calafell (CAT)
OpenArch Partners

University of Exeter,
Department of
Archaeology (EN)
Archaeology at the University of Exeter is a vibrant academic community offering
excellent teaching and research. They are ranked 2nd in the United Kingdom for
their world-leading and internationally recognised research and many staff
publish on experimental archaeology. They offer high levels of student
satisfaction and encourage students to use experimental methods.
OpenArch Partners

University of Exeter,
Department of
Archaeology (EN)
OpenArch Partners

Amgueddfa Cymru,
St Fagans National
History Museum
(WLS)
Located to the northwest of Cardiff, the museum was created in 1946 in the grounds
of St Fagans Castle. It features dozens of reconstructed buildings, brought from
across Wales, and three Iron Age roundhouses based on excavated examples. St
Fagans is one of Europe's leading open-air museums and has been voted the UK’s
favourite tourist attraction.
OpenArch Partners

Amgueddfa Cymru,
St Fagans National
History Museum
(WLS)
OpenArch Partners

EXARC (NL)
EXARC is the ICOM* Affiliated Organisation representing archaeological open-air
museums, experimental archaeology, ancient technology and interpretation.
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.
OpenArch Partners

Archeon (NL)
Founded in 1994, Archeon covers 10,000 years of human development in the
Netherlands. From hunter-gatherers in the Stone Age and farmers in the Bronze and
Iron Ages, through the Roman period and right up to everyday life in 1340 AD,
“Archaeo-interpreters” show what life was like in “their time” in the 43 reconstructed
buildings.
OpenArch Partners

Archeon (NL)
OpenArch Partners

Hunebedcentrum
(NL)
Lying on the Hondsrug in Borger, in the North of the Netherlands,
the Hunebedcentrum takes you back to prehistoric times and shows you the lives
of the first farmers in Drenthe. They constructed impressive monumental tombs
and the remains of 54 of them can still be seen, the largest one standing right next
to the centre.
OpenArch Partners

Hunebedcentrum
(NL)
OpenArch Partners

Archaeological-
Ecological Centre
Albersdorf (DE)
The “Stone Age Park Dithmarschen” in Albersdorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) is
being reconstructed as a Neolithic cultural landscape from ca. 3.000 BC. Lying close
to megalithic tombs and grave mounds dating from the first farmers in Northern
Germany, the site offers educational activities like flint knapping, archery and
leatherwork.
OpenArch Partners

OpenArch Partners
Archaeological-
Ecological Centre
Albersdorf (DE)

Fotevikens Museum
(SE)
25 km south of Malmö, Sweden, you will find the Archaeological Open-Air Museum
of Foteviken. Inside a city wall open toward the sea, the world’s only attempt to
recreate an entire Viking Age town shows a number of streets with 23 houses and
homesteads, reflecting life in a late Viking Age and early Middle Age town in 1134 AD.
OpenArch Partners

Fotevikens Museum
(SE)
OpenArch Partners

Kierikkikeskus/
Kierikki Stone Age
Centre (FI)
The archaeological exhibition at the Kierikki Stone Age Centre displays objects from
the Stone Age. In addition, activity programs in the reconstructed Stone Age Village
offer a unique opportunity to experience life as it was lived thousands of years ago.
Other attractions include a restaurant, hotel and museum shop.
OpenArch Partners

Kierikkikeskus/
Kierikki Stone Age
Centre (FI)
OpenArch Partners

Arheološki Institut
(RS)
Viminacium is an ancient Roman site on the right bank of the Danube in eastern
Serbia. In an area of about 450 ha are the remains of a military camp, a city and
cemeteries. Remains of a Roman bath, a mausoleum and one of the gates of the
military camp can be seen, as well as a replica of a Roman villa.
OpenArch Partners

Arheološki Institut
(RS)
OpenArch Partners

Parco Archeologico
e Museo all’aperto
della Terramara di
Montale (IT)
The terramara of Montale, near Modena in Northern Italy, is a typical Bronze Age
settlement with pile dwellings surrounded by a ditch with water and imposing
earthwork fortifications. Next to the site is an Open-Air Museum with life-size
reconstructions of two houses furnished with replicas of the original finds dating back
3500 years.
OpenArch Partners

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

The main idea of Archaeological
Open-Air Museums is to present both
the tangible and intangible past to the
public. The tangible parts of
Archaeological Open-Air Museums are
the archaeological remains and the
reconstructions of these. The
intangible and most interesting part of
an Archaeological Open-Air Museum
is the story of the people that once
lived there. The work in OpenArch is
divided in Work Packages. All Work
Packages are the responsibility of the
entire partner-ship, but one or two
partner are coordinating them.

Work Packages
Project Management
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.
Coordinators: La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell (CAT)

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.
Coordinators: Amgueddfa Cymru – St Fagans National History Museum
(WLS)
Fotevikens Museum (SE)
Work Packages

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.
Coordinators: Archeon (NL)
Arheološki Institut (RS)
Work Packages

The Dialogue with Skills
This Work Package gives a
strong focus on the people
that do demonstrations of
traditional skills like
metalworking, textile working,
pottery making, woodworking
et cetera.
Coordinators: Parco Archeologico e Museo all’aperto della Terramara di
Montale (IT)
Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf (DE)
Work Packages

The Dialogue with Science
This Work Package focuses
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.
Coordinators: University of Exeter, Department of Archaeology (EN)
Kierikkikeskus/Kierikki Stone Age Centre (FI)
Work Packages

The Dialogue with Museum Organisations
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.
Coordinators: La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell (CAT)
EXARC (NL)
Work Packages

Communication and Dissemination
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.
Coordinators: EXARC (NL)
Hunebedcentrum (NL)
Work Packages

Meetings are theoretically focused events, with
presentations / lectures and discussion groups. These are
open and of interest to a broader audience. Workshops
are practically focused ‘working together’ gatherings for
staff of the Archaeological Open-Air Museum with the aim
of exchanging insight into specific methods and improving
each other’s skills.

Meetings & Workshops
January 2011: Kick off Meeting of OpenArch, Calafell (CAT)
From January 24th to 28th the OpenArch
project fired the starting shot in the
Mediterranean town of Calafell. The
organisation prepared a very complete
agenda with different activities and a detailed
work plan with introductory speeches and
several meetings which made possible that
partners could meet each other in person
and take the first decisions to start building
up the planning of the project in this first
stage called “Inception Phase”, which it was
considered to be finished after the next
meeting to be held in Borger (NL).
Number of Participants: 30

October 2011: "Bringing archaeology to life", Borger (NL)
The Borger Meeting, 3rd - 7th October 2011
was a great success with almost 100
participants from about 10 countries. The
Borger Meeting was to discuss new ways to
reach the public with archaeology. The
meeting combined participants from
OpenArch, Zeitgeist and EXARC and was
also visited by members of the Dutch
network VAEE.
Number of Participants / Visitors / Audience: 100 Participants, 50 Visitors

April 2012: III OpenArch meeting in Modena (IT)
The meeting dealt with the implementation of
the OpenArch project activities with a specific
focus on the Dialogue with Skills, a topic
coordinated by the Italian partner in
cooperation with the German partner
Archäologisch-Ökologisches Zentrum
Albersdorf. Core of the program was the
Workshop Smiths in Bronze Age Europe,
planned with a pedagogical and hands on
approach with the aim to provide a reference
guide for skill experts, craftsmen as well as
managers dealing with Bronze Casting
presentations in Archaeological Open-Air
Museums.
Number of Participants / Visitors /
Audience: 100

September 2012: "Museum interpretation and public
engagement: challenges and opportunities", Höllviken (SE)
The overarching theme was the challenges
of interpreting and engaging public interest in
open-air museums and archaeological /
historic sites. For two days, the linked
themes “Management & communication
strategies at open-air/archaeological
museums” ,“Working with volunteers” and
“How can performance of various kinds
contribute to and extend the work of such
museums and sites?” have been discussed.
Number of Participants / Visitors / Audience: 120

October 2012: 1st Exeter Dialogue with Science Workshop
The University of Exeter, Department of Archaeology (EN)
The first Exeter dialogue with science
workshop was very successful. Participants
from Finland, the Netherlands, Italy and
Wales joined Exeter postgraduate students
and staff for exchange of information,
practice, and the pedagogies of
experimental archaeology.
Audience: 21

April 2013: The Dialogue with the Visitor, Alphen a/d Rijn
(NL)
AOAMs face unique challenges concerning
their interaction with visitors. Through themes
concerning the Story of the Site and the
Visitors Experience, we have explored these
challenges and how to meet them. During the
conference, speakers from various disciplines
and backgrounds engaged the visitors and
each other on diverse subjects. The goal was
to gain a better understanding of both the
stories we tell – the intangible heritage
preserved by AOAM – and how the visitor
experiences these. We have also looked at
best practices in (games) design, theatre,
amusement parks, and others.
Audience: 100

Themes which were covered:
• The birth, life and death of large scale structures
• The construction, maintenance and dismantling as
performance
• Large scale timber structures like houses, granary
stores and boats
May 2013: 2nd Exeter
Dialogue with Science Workshop,
The University of Exeter,
Department of Archaeology (EN)

September 2013: "Working with stones in European Pre-
and Protohistory in theory and in practice" at Albersdorf
(DE) On Day 1 an international scientific conference
about archaeological research and
experiments took place; on Day 2 we had a
practical workshop at the “Stone Age Park
Dithmarschen” with demonstrations and
different activities regarding working with
stones. At this public forum there was time
and space for intensive exchange of
experiences and ideas.
On Day 3 an excursion on the traces of
landscape and settlement history at the North
Sea Coast took place.Number of Participants / Visitors / Audience: 120

December 2013: 3rd Exeter Dialogue with Science
Workshop
OpenArch members from Sweden, Wales and
England joined the Touching the Past Project (TTP)
at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
The Touching the Past Project (TTP) was directed by
Dr Linda Hurcombe (University of Exeter and
OpenArch), Dr Alison Sheridan (National Museum of
Scotland) and Dr Mark Wright (University of
Edinburgh/Liverpool John Moores University). Along
with the OpenArch members a wider variety of
museum staff, academics, artists, professional
archaeologists, students and representatives from
charities who work with blind and visually impaired
groups attended the workshop.
Number of Participants /
Visitors / Audience: 29

June 2014: The Value and Scale of the Experimental Archaeology
Approach - Conference on the Dialogue with Science, Oulu (FI)
The conference introduced the archaeology
of the region and then focused on the value
of the experimental approach to studying
and presenting the past. On the first day we
presented ancient monuments and some
interesting research relating specifically to
Northern Finland. The second day featured
presentations and experiments. We also
explored modern skills and new technologies
for enhancing the visitor experience.

September 2014: The Dialogue with the Visitor, Viminacium (RS)
The conference was dedicated to
archaeology of the region, as well as the
presentation of local archaeological cities
and parks in Serbia and its neighboring
countries. The sessions were focused on the
Dialogue with the Visitor and its links to
other work packages, such as the Dialogue
with Museum Organizations, which aim is to
define the role of thematic exhibitions in a
Museum. The Dialogue with Skills and the
Dialogue with Science were present as
sessions linked to presentation of an
Archaeological Park and its management.
Audience: 70

November 2014: 4th Exeter Dialogue with Science
Workshop
Over the week of the 24th through the 28th of November
2014, an international group of students and OpenArch
participants engaged in a skills workshop covering a
number of animal skin tanning technologies. The
main goal of the daytime activities centred on skills
acquisition. A number of different skin types were used
including small furbearers (rabbits), larger species (with
examples as from the deer family of Roe, Sitka and Red
deer), and fish (salmon and plaice). Skinning techniques
were discussed as these affect the ability to achieve an
evenly shaped skin, free from holes and partial holes…

February 2015: 4th Exeter Dialogue with Science Workshop
Learning craft skills: Basketry and related plant
management. The first evening Theresa Emmerich
Kamper and Linda Hurcombe met Jasna Lesnjak
(Calafell) and Elen Bowen (St Fagans, National Museum
of Wales) to take them to a meal in the city centre
overlooking the cathedral. We discussed what they
wanted to achieve at the workshop and their preferences
for flexible activities on the Wednesday. On Tuesday a
minibus picked up participants and drove them to the
fringes of Dartmoor where professional basket-maker,
Linda Lemieux has her workshop…

March 2015: 4th Exeter Dialogue with Science Workshop
The outstanding, world-wide experience of Professor
Bruce Bradley of course was the basis of the
flintknapping for all three days. His theoretical and
especially practical knowledge gave the fundamental
understanding of craft skills with flints from the early
African to Asian and North American technique up to
Neandertals. For the OpenArch Workshop an
international group of students and colleagues (England,
France, Germany, Italy and USA) from Exeter University,
AÖZA, „Steinzeitpark Dithmarschen“ in Albersdorf and
from the National Museum of Wales came together…

May 2015: Grand Finale – Public Event, Cardiff (WLS)
The St Fagans conference took place from
25 - 29 May 2015, including travel days. The
conference was attended by over 90 people
(including 47 demonstrator stalls at the craft
festival), and was supported by staff from
five Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Wales venues. Throughout the conference,
delegates were hosted at: National
Museum Cardiff, St Fagans National
History Museum and Big Pit National Coal
Museum. The highlight of the 27 May was
a major craft festival run as part of WP4,
and also as the culminating public event for
OpenArch.
Audience: 90
Number of Visitors on the
Craft Festival: 5000

2015: Exeter Dialogue With Science Roadshow
July 2015: Sagnlandet Lejre
Number of Participants / Visitors / Audience:
50+participants in the Athra gathering; 5 from the University
of Exeter, 1 from AOZA, 1 from Keirikki, plus many from
Lejre, an EXARC member
June 2015: Foteviken
Participants included 4 from University of Exeter, 3 from
Calafell, and Foteviken Staff/ 120 Visitors left comments or
engaged in our processes/ Audience was all of the visitors of
the Craft Market

July 2015: Ancient Technology Centre
4 participants from the University of Exeter plus 4 ATC staff
members and other demonstrators and volunteers
Audience:+140 visitors
July 2015: Hamburg Student Week at AOEZA
4 participants from the University of Exeter/ AOEZA staff
members and volunteers, 35 students and 2 staff members
from Hamburg University Audience over 800 visitors

October 2015: Closing OpenArch, Calafell (CAT)
The last meeting of OpenArch partnership takes
place in October in Calafell (Tarragona). The goal of
this activity is to take the last decisions regarding the
project and make assessments of the project
results. Although the program is mostly focused on
internal meetings among the OpenArch partners,
there are also parallel activities open to the public
like the seminars about museum management and
communication on Day 1, a visit to the
Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco (UNESCO
World Heritage Site) and the activities scheduled at
La Ciutadella Ibèrica of Calafell during the European
Heritage Days in Catalonia (9-11 October).
Number of
Participants / Visitors /
Audience: 20

October 2015: La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell
11 from the University of Exeter, 4 Calafell staff, 1 reenactor
associated with the site; 4 staff from our partners Archeon
and Hunebedcentrum also visited Calafell on the Friday.
August 2015: AFM Oerlinghausen
participants 2 the University of Exeter, EXARC plus 4 other
Oerlinghausen staff members; 14 students and 2 staff
members from Cardiff University Audience 150 visitors and
those re-enactors staying overnight at the Museum

October 2015: Archeon
11 participants from the University of Exeter; interacting
closely with 19 Archeon staff members, other openarch
partners, volunteers, and the visiting smelting group.
~1,000 visitors
November 2015: Hunebedcentrum
Participants: 16 in total. 3 from the University of Exeter, 4
Hunebedcentrum staff, 2 Archeon staff, 1 US visitor and 6
volunteers, Audience: Approximately 1,500

Visiting other conferences and meetings
All of the partners are regularly joying other conferences and seminars while representing
OpenArch. Some examples are:
•Llys Rhosyr Seminar (2011)
•Workshop at the University of Hamburg (2011)
•7th UK Conference on experimental archaeology (2012)
•Seminar at University Kiel (2012)
•the ICOM Advisory Committee (2012)
•Craft and People - International Conference, British Museum (2012)
•A double lecture at the University of Leiden (2012)
•OpenArch in Mérida (2013)
•AAM in Baltimore (2013)
•the General Conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) (2013)
•Experimental Archaeology Conference, Oxford, UK (2014)
•Seminar about Archaeological Open Air Museums at the University of Kiel (2014)
•Introducing OpenArch to the World’s largest Experimental Archaeology Conference (2014)
•EXARC at the 29th general assembly of ICOM (Paris, UNESCO building) (2014)
•OpenArch at the International Symposium "Drobeta. Archaeology and History“ (2014)
•Dublin Experimental Archaeology conference (2015)
•ICOM Annual Meeting (2015)
•ICMAH Conference "Professional and ethical dimensions of archaeology“ (2015)

Staff Exchanges are thought to be a
tool to interchange best practices
between staff of different museums.
The target group of Steering
committees are the directors,
managers and responsible of the
museum partners of the OpenArch
project. The target group of staff
exchanges are the day to day workers
of the museum, the ones that are more
close to the general public and
schools. Mainly, by means of this
activity, we reach one of the EU
objectives: to enhance the cross-
border mobility of artists and workers
in the cultural sector.

Staff Exchanges (samples)
Hunebedcentrum
(NL) visits
megalithic burial
excavation near
Albersdorf (DE)
Number of
Participants: 3 from
Hunebedcentrum
The University of Kiel
(associated partner
to OpenArch) is
doing the largest
research into
megalithic
monuments in
Europe ever…

Bronze
casting
workshop
at Parco
Montale
(IT)
Number of
Participants:
30 of which
10 Staff
Exchanges
from
Calafell
(CAT),
Foteviken
(SE) and
Archeon (NL)

Archeon (NL) visits Viminacium (RS)
Number of Participants: 1 from Archeon (NL)
In the beginning of October a symposium was organised by the OpenArch
participant Viminacium. Archeon send one of its staff over to spy on the conference
and gather some ideas for the next OpenArch meeting in April…

Management and Marketing
at the Hunebedcentrum
in Borger (NL)
Number of Participants: 2 from
Archaeological-Ecological Centre
Albersdorf (DE)

7th Experimental Archaeology Conference at Cardiff (WLS)
Number of Participants: 4 from Parco Archeologico di Montale (IT)
All our goals were achieved, in fact some of the most important goals of the OA
project are to share knowledge and techniques about our common heritage.
We think that we had the opportunity to develop both thanks to this staff exchange…

Experimental
days at
Steinzeitpark
Albersdorf
(DE)Number of
Participants:
2 from Arheološki
Institut (RS)
... Having direct
insight at the
constructions and
the landscape in
order to discuss
what could be
done at the
archaeological
park Viminacium.

Making of a logboat at
Kierikki Stone Age Village
(FI)Number of Participants:
5 from University of Exeter (UK),
2 from Archaeological-Ecological Centre
Albersdorf (DE)

Educational staff from La Ciutadella Ibèrica (CAT) learning from
Parco Montale (IT) activities for school groups
Number of Participants: 4 from CalafellThe main goal of educators
who have participated in the
exchange of experiences in
Parco Montale was to know
more about the methodology
in educational activities and
public management.

Staff Exchange between
Archeon (NL) and Foteviken (SE)
Number of Participants: 3 from Archeon
To observe and analyze different
methods used to engage the dialogue
with the visitor, both during special
events and during ‘regular’ days…

Staff Exchange between Archeon (NL) and Viminacium
(RS)Number of Participants: 2 from Archeon
Viminacium combines the original excavations with replicas of the buildings
encountered. The amphitheatre present in Viminacium shows this excellently: one part
of the theater has been reconstructed, while the rest is currently still being excavated…

From
Albersdorf
(DE) to St.
Fagans (WLS)
Number of
Participants:
2 from Albersdorf
It was successful
and gave deep
insights into the
educational work,
the archaeological
and scientific
background and in
the daily tasks of a
museum of such
size.

Smoke and air quality
Number of Participants: 2 from University
of Exeter (UK) visiting Archaeological-
Ecological Centre Albersdorf (DE)

Archeon (NL) and Albersdorf
(DE)Number of Participants: 2 from Archeon
- Bring up the communication and
socialization level - Exchange ideas -
Learn how the park works with visitors

Foteviken (SE) and Archeon
(NL)Number of Participants: 5 from Foteviken
To see and experience how Archeon
works with mediation and interaction with
visitors during an event that is ongoing
for several days…

Number of Participants: 1 from University of
Exeter (UK) visiting Hunebedcentrum (NL)
Number of Participants: 1 from Kierikki
Stone Age Village (FI) visiting Archeon (NL)

Event Management and Public Relations in
the Hunebedcentrum - Number of
Participants: 1 from Archaeological-Ecological
Centre Albersdorf (DE) visiting
Hunebedcentrum (NL)
Number of Participants: 1 from La Ciutadella
Ibérica de Calafell (CAT) visiting Archeon (NL)

Demonstrating at
the St Fagans Fair (WLS)
Archaeological-Ecological Centre
Albersdorf (DE), 1 from University of
Exeter, Department of Archaeology (EN),
1 from La Ciutadella Ibèrica (CAT)

Making Stone Moulds at the
Parco Terramare di Montale
Number of Participants: 1 from University
of Exeter (UK) visiting Parco Montale (IT)

Organisation and Management of an
Open-Air Museum
Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf
(DE) visiting Foteviken (SE)
On the Track of the Trap
Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf
(DE) visiting Kierikki Stone Age Village (FI)

From Iberian Land to Viking
Market: gaining knowledge of
managing events in AOAMs
Number of Participants: 3 from from
La Ciutadella Ibèrica (CAT) visiting
Foteviken (SE)

Viminacium visits
La Ciutadella Ibèrica de Calafell
Number of Participants: 2 from Arheološki Institut
(RS) visiting La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell
(CAT)
From the 18th to the 28th of August 2015,
La Ciutadella Ibèrica de Calafell has organized
a workshop called "International Summer Work
Camp 2015".
St Fagans Events visit
to Archeon Tastery
Number of Participants: 1 from St. Fagans (WLS)
visiting Archeon (NL)
To collect ideas for interpreting historical food in
museums. Finding out where the commercial
meets the curatorial in modern museum event
programming.

Experimental Actions - archaeological remains and
objects are tangible remains of past civilizations. They
need to be interpreted to give meaning today, and
interpretation is dependent on experiments.
Experiments are needed to understand how objects
were made, how constructions can have looked like and
not the least, how people in the past behaved and acted.

Experimental Actions (samples)
Everyday life of the
past: primitive
pottery making &
burning
Kierikki Stone Age
Centre (FI)

Working with birch bark

Notes concerning the
demolishing of the western
end of a ten-year-old Stone
age row house

Impact of fire
lighting on thatch
temperature

Creativity: An exploration through the Bronze Age
and contemporary responses to the Bronze Age

Workshop
University of Hamburg
August 2011
Skinning, cutting and cooking
a reindeer using only bone
and antler tools

Felling, de-barking and
notching pine trees with
stone, bone and antler tools

Workshop Smiths in
Bronze Age Europe

Clothing: drum
making workshop

Working with wood at 1st Exeter
Dialogue with Science Workshop
Living Experiments and
Educational Days at the Stone
Age Park Dithmarschen

Prehistoric Fish Trap
Reconstruction

Reconstructions and interpretation
of Medieval Egg Tempera paintings
Experiments In Viminacium
Making log boat in Kierikki

Production of Iberian
ceramics (Protohistory)

“Art and Technology of bronze”

From evidences to facts:
the Iberian ironworking
chain from an experimental
perspective at the Iberian
Citadel of Calafell

Palaeolithic Art:
Practical experiences within classes
Experiments on Stone Age Glue Types
Reconstruction/building
a bronze age house

Experimental Archaeology Projects
at Kierikki

An experimental
archaeology project
considering the stone
slab box furnaces used
for iron smelting

Making furniture,
Bronze age and Iron Age
Mobility and Transport in the Neolithic
Reconstruction/building
an iron age house

Exeter Visiting Master Craftsman:
Morten Kutschera
Exeter Dialogue
With Science
Usewear analysis:
Catalan Institute of
Human Paleoecology
and Social Evolution
(IPHES)
Making furniture, Bronze age and
Iron Age: Preparation to make iron
for tools

Rush Cutting with Linda Lemieux
Casting bronze experience opened to
a wider public at Terramara Park
Mobility and Transport in the Neolithic -
Experimental Activity week in the Stone Age
Park in Albersdorf
A Birch-Bark vessel from the Stone Age

OpenArch has several means of bringing our message
to those people interested. A huge collections existing
of: flyers, brochure, posters, banners, adverts et cetera has
been created. As well as small and big shield. Besides
that, several websites reach thousands of people.

Other Products (samples)
Community Manager
Our websites are being updated several times per week. Here we notify people about
new activities and products, updates from our partners and much more.
We are active on Facebook,
LinkedIn and Twitter, less
frequently on Vimeo, Google+
and Slideshare. When OpenArch
Partners add events, products or
staff exchanges to the website,
we pick those up and follow up
through social media. The
number of tweets and messages
on Facebook rises exponentially
when we are actually present at
such activities. By the end of
2015 we reached about 18,000
followers.

During the project several products
are made which we proudly share
with our colleagues beyond
OpenArch. Some are available on
line, others can be ordered at the
partner responsible, others viewed
at the locations of the partners. The
EXARC Journal is published both in
hard copy and online and
distributed among all members and
at different conferences.

Starting from 2011, three
online issues of EXARC
Journal have been
published on the website,
next to the printed “best of”
Digest.
From 2014, four online
issues of the EXARC
Journal were published
annually as well as two
printed “best of” Digests.
The average amount of
articles published per year
is 50, half of it is open
access, the others are for
members only, but will be
open access two years
after publishing.
www.journal.exarc.net

The film was designed and implemented by Kierikki Stone Age Centre staff, in
conjunction with a film company. The film was funded through OpenArch. It tells a
one-year course of the Stone Age. Ploy is a child's growth story and also the Stone
Age village of survival in difficult conditions.
SUN STONE / Aurinkokivi
DVD 16 minutes - For all Ages
Available at Kierikki Stone Age Centre

Handbook on
Communication
and PR. It includes
Strategies for
Archaeological Open-
Air Museums. The book
exists out of six themes:
1. People Matter,
2. Digital PR,
3. Combining Social
Media and Print
Marketing,
4. Printed & Tangible PR
products,
5. Media & Going Public,
6. How to Organise an
(International) Public
Event.
Available at EXARC, check also www.slideshare.net/EXARC/pr-book-for-
archaeological-openair-museums-presentation-august-2014

"Iberians: The Secret Of Iron" is a documentary about Iberian ironworking processes
based on the experimental archaeology works which took place at La Ciutadella
Ibèrica de Calafell in April 2014. Both film and experiment are part of the EU Culture
Programme OpenArch.
Movie: "Iberians: The Secret Of Iron"
9,5 minutes - For all Ages
available: http://vimeo.com/105034887

Proceedings-Book about
Archaeology and Crafts
The book "Archaeology and Crafts - Experiences
and Experiments on traditional skills and
handicrafts in Archaeological Open Air Museum
ins Europe" sums up the results of the
International Conference in Albersdorf in autumn
2013, as well as further research of the
OpenArch-Project in the framework of the
Workpackage No. 4. Priorities are set up by
research on prehistorical working with stone,
on early bronze casting and practical usage of
prehistoric tools.
A compilation of some of the handicraft and skills activities
with their experiences and results has been made into
“Guideline Manual” online
http://journal.exarc.net/dialogue-with-skills-openarch-2011-2015

This film is one of the concrete products of the articulated project "Smiths in Bronze Age
Europe", conducted by the Modena Museum during these 5 years in the frame of OpenArch
WP4. The project saw the development of a research whose aim is to expand knowledge of both
the tools and the techniques of the Terramare metallurgists.
Movie: "Smiths in Bronze Age Europe"
10 minutes - For all Ages
available: https://vimeo.com/140048018

Guidebook for Live Interpretation
in AOAM
As part of the WP3 activities, Archeon decided to
publish a guide on the use of Live Interpretation in
Archaeological Open-Air Museums. This booklet
should become an industry standard for museums
considering using Live Interpretation, or museums
who are already using actors to interpret the past for
their visitors. Central to the concept of the guidebook
is the idea that Live Interpretation is one of the best
ways to provide both an entertaining and educational
experience for museum visitors - both in AOAM and
more 'traditional' museums.
Available at
http://openarch.eu/work-packages/products/guidebook-live-interpretation-aoam

In this film, different techniques for interacting with visitors in AOAMs are presented, in order to
create a tool that can be used by AOAMs throughout Europe and the world. The content was
made up of existing and new footage, interviews, a voice-over and subtitles. The footage was
provided by the OpenArch partners, filming and post-production were done by Viminacium, while
Archeon provided the script.
Movie: "Interaction with Visitors in
Archaeological Open-Air Museums"
16.5 minutes - For all Ages
available: https://vimeo.com/150406695

AOAMs and the dialogue with the
museum community
The main output of work package 6 is a publication
which aims to be helpful for all AOAMs across
Europe in a very specific subject: the links of the
AOAMs with the museum world. Many AOAMs are
already working together with national museums or
museum organisations (i.e ICOM). However, within
the AOAM category, there are many realities.
Available at
http://openarch.eu/work-packages/products/wp6-
publication-aoams-and-dialogue-museum-
community

The life cycle of structures
in experimental archaeology:
an object biography approach
Editors: Linda Hurcombe
and Penny Cunningham
The focus of Archaeological Open-Air Museums
(AOAMs) is to present both the tangible and
intangible past to the public. The tangible parts of
AOAMs are the archaeological remains and the
reconstructions. The intangible and, in some
respects the most interesting part of an AOAM, is
the story of the people the museum represents.
This volume explores the research and visitor
agendas of structures and their life cycles as they
are experienced by experimental archaeology
projects and AOAMs.

Management of Open-Air Museums
This manual is hopefully the starting point of
managing an open air museum. Thanks to the
OpenArch project we have been able to collect and
analyse the practices and routines of open-air
museums from all over Europe. This manual will show
and teach you valuable skills and techniques.
Available at
http://openarch.eu/work-
packages/products/management-open-air-museums

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