Chalcolithic

Historical Foodfest, taste the past

Hungry! Your own vegetable garden, fermenting, smoking, brewing and cooking - it's totally hip again. Many of those techniques have a long history.

From tunic to haute couture: On the 19th and 20th of June, all the beauty of our history will be showcased in the preHistorisch Dorp in Eindhoven.

10.000 years of fashionistas

Beautiful on the inside, beautiful on the outside.

Health and beauty are inextricably linked. People have known that for as long as they exist. This weekend Museumpark Archeon shows how people from prehistory to the 21st century deal with the care and well-being of their body.

Course objective: Each participant carves a wooden spoon and a plate with simple hand tools such as an ax, carving knife and gouges.

In the last few years, ICOM and its members have reflected upon the following difficult issues. In 2017 the subject for the international museum day was Contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums, and this year it is going to be Museums for equality: Diversity and Inclusion.

Prehistoric Cooking and Frying

Course objective: With the resources from the people of the past a dish from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age is cooked and tasted.

Course objective: Each participant goes home with a rawhide bag.

Course content: scraping the skin when wet, shaping a container, cutting rawhide strings, attaching a handle, drying the container.

Course objective: We make two obsidian knives, one small and one large.

Making Fire like in Old Times

Course objective: Each participant creates his own functional fire set.

Forging a Lance or Spear Tip

Course objective: forging an iron lance or spearhead.

Course content: After an introduction to forging technology and the history of thrust and throwing weapons, each participant forges his own lance or spearhead historical model.