heritage

Historia Vivens - Living History & Emotional Heritage (IT)

Historia Vivens is an Italy-based private project especially devoted to favour the rediscovering and promoting of the European heritage: historical sites, open-air living history and folk museums, theme parks and special archaeological projects, Living History and Folklore.

Historia Vivens is an Italy-based private project especially devoted to favour the rediscovering and promoting of the European heritage: historical sites...

Crafting the Past: Theory and Practice of Museums

Katherine Ambry Linhein Muller (US)
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/1
Interpretation
How do we know something is real? We say something exists when it is tangible and we can touch it; it is factual when we can compare it to other known variables, and historic when it fulfils our expectation of the past. There are objects and activities that blur these categories and cause people to accept alternative histories...

Gene Fornby - the Ancient Village of Gene

Carl L. Thunberg (SE)
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/1
Archaeological Open-Air Museum

I have for years, through articles, debate and political activities, been a very active part in the efforts to preserve Gene Fornby from demolition. The cause seemed long doomed to be lost, but in the end the saving-line won. Therefore the longhouse and the smithy, in my opinion the important reconstructions, will be preserved and restored.