Interpretation

To Be or Not to Be: Thoughts on Living History - Some Personal Remarks

Thit Birk Petersen (DK)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/3
Interpretation
This article is based on personal experiences and observations conducted through many years as a volunteer at the Middle Age Centre in Denmark and later as a student at the Open Air Museum, Sorgenfri, Denmark. Observations and remarks made are solely personal and the article reflects thoughts I have had throughout the years...

Public Outreach in the Drents Museum in Assen (NL)

Blue van der Zwan-Deen (NL)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Interpretation
Part of my job as museum teacher at the Drents Museum in Assen is attending to the all the groups that visit our museum. This includes the great number of children, both elementary school and high school students, that visit our museum. A lot of children think of a museum as a boring place where there is nothing to do but look at old paintings...

International Learning Partnership: Living History and Adult Education in the Museum

Susanne Wiermann (DE)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/2
Interpretation
Many archaeological open-air museums and museums with indoor reconstructions choose to interpret history using the method of ‘living history’, or re-enactments. If one only counts the German references, there is wide variety of terms used by museums when they talk of ‘living history’...

Varus and the Lost Legions in Sagnlandet Lejre - A Re-enactment Success?

Ane Jepsen (DK)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/1
Interpretation

In July 2009 a battle took place in Sagnlandet Lejre, in the heart of Zealand in Denmark. The battle was a dramatized re-enactment of the historical battle of Teutoburg forest in Niedersachsen in the year 9 AD - also known as the Varus Battle. Why should such a re-enactment event take place in Denmark - over 100 kilometres from the presumed site of the historic battle?...

WEA’s Latest Life Experiment

Jaco Schilp (NL)
EXARC Journal Issue 2012/1
Interpretation

The WEA, Society for Experimental Archaeology, is a sub-society of the NJBG, the Dutch Historical Youth Association. It is formed by youngsters aged 12 to 26 who enjoy participating in several aspects of living history. WEA offers them a chance to learn about history, set up their own archaeological experiments, and the opportunity to participate in living history for example by learning a...