GUIDE TO THE Created for the project ARCHAEOLOGICAL OPEN AIR MUSEUMS IN EUROPE GUIDE TO THE Edited by by ARCHAEOLOGICAL Alessia Pelillo Museo Civico Concept and co-ordination Archeologico Etnologico OPEN AIR Ilaria Pulini di Modena (IT) Editorial project by and MUSEUMS Roeland Paardekooper Parco archeologico Ilaria Pulini e Museo all’aperto della IN EUROPE Cristiana Zanasi Terramara di Montale (IT) in cooperation with Giuseppe Caruso In partnership with Historisch OpenluchtMuseum Italian text translated by Paul Angus Eindhoven (NL) project leader Graphic design Studio Filippo Partesotti Pfahlbaumuseum Layout Michele Radicia Unteruhldingen (DE) Printing Nuovagrafica - Carpi (MO) 2009 “Matrica” Múzeum © liveARCH project és Régészeti Park (HU) © Museo Civico Archeologico Etno- logico di Modena Āraišu arheoloģiskais Muzejparks (LV) All texts are copyright of the Museo Civico Archeologico Etnologico di Lofotr Viking Museum (NO) Modena and the respective authors. The publishers made every effort to Fotevikens Museum (SE) ensure the accuracy of information in this publication and they apologize for The Scottish Crannog Centre (UK any possible mistakes or omissions. Unless otherwise stated, all images are provided by the respective mu- seums and copyright remains their responsibility. KEY TO INDEX SYMBOLS liveARCH EXARC 6 introductions 46 ARCHAEOLOGICAL partner member OPEN AIR MUSEUMS IN EUROPE 12 The ProJect 50 AT - AUSTRIA P Prehistory-Protohistory open air museum with indoor museum 58 BE - Belgium 14 NL - The Netherlands 62 CH - SWitZerland R Roman Age 18 DE - GermanY open air museum with site museum 66 CZ - CZech Republic 22 HU - Hungary M Middle Ages 72 DE - GermanY 26 IT - Italy guided tours 98 DK - Denmark 30 LV - Latvia V Viking Age 108 ES - Spain demonstrations of ancient crafts / 34 NO - NORWay experimental archaeology 112 FI - Finland A Other periods 38 SE - SWeden 116 FR - France living history by re-enactment 42 UK - SCOTLAND 128 GL - Greenland living history by re-enactment only for 130 GR - Greece special events 132 HU - Hungary 134 IE - Ireland 136 IS - Iceland family friendly 138 IT - Italy shop 146 LT - Lithuania food facilities 148 LV - Latvia 150 NL - The Netherlands picnic area 154 NO - NORWay accessible to the disabled 158 PL - Poland 164 RU - Russia P parking 166 SE - SWeden accessible by public transport 180 SK - Slovakia 182 UK - United Kingdom 5 EUROPE The guide collects 212 archaeological open air museums of 24 European IS countries and it represents the GL result of a survey FI RU up to date at 2009. NO SE LV AT Austria DK LT IE BE Belgium CH SWitZerland UK CZ CZech Republic NL PO DE GermanY DK Denmark BE DE ES Spain CZ FI Finland SK FR France AT HU GL Greenland FR CH GR Greece HU Hungary IE Ireland IS Iceland IT IT Italy ES LT Lithuania GR LV Latvia NL The Netherlands NO NORWay PL Poland RU Russia SE SWeden SK Slovakia UK United Kingdom 48 49 AUSTRIA 1 - Asparn/Zaya settlement reconstructed adjacent to the Niederösterreichisches Museum für mine entrance. The reproduction dwellings Urgeschichte and tools on display recount the history of ATAT 1 the people who first extracted the precious 3 P R M V A Linz 5 “white gold” some 2500 years ago. In ad- 7 Schloß Asparn dition to prehistoric replicas, there are also 2151 Asparn / Zaya medieval exhibits constructed on the basis VIENNA 8 Tel +43 (0)2577 84180 of archaeological finds uncovered in the [email protected] Dürrnberg area. The entrance ticket is valid 2 9 AUSTRIA www.urgeschichte.com for both visits, the mine and the settlement, 11 open from April to November, Tue - Fri, 9 - 17 and visitors can also purchase the Salz Innsbruck (from September Mon - Fri); Sat, Sun and Erlebnis Ticket, which covers the cost of the 10 6 12 Graz public holidays 10 - 18. bus ride from the railway station at Hallein 4 to Dürrnberg, plus entry to the museum. P In the idyllic parklands of Asparn Castle, 3 - Elsarn the open air section of the Niederösterrei- Freilichtmuseum Germanisches chisches Museum für Urgeschichte (Lower Gehöft Elsarn Austria’s Prehistory Museum) features reconstructed dwellings typical of the P R M V A 1 - Asparn/Zaya 1 prehistoric period. Visitors can discover the Gemeindeamt Straß 2 - BAD DÜrrnberg winter settlement of a mammoth hunter, a 3491 Elsarn, Straß im Straßertale 3 - Elsarn Neolithic longhouse and dwellings from the Tel +43 (0)27352495 4 - GroSSklein Hallstatt culture (Iron Age), documented [email protected] 5 - Heldenberg with archaeological finds uncovered in the www.freilichtmuseum-elsarn.at 6 - Kulm bei WeiZ region and dating back to the Bronze and open from March to December, Tue - Sun, 10 7 - Mitterkirchen Iron Age. The final part of the visit features - 17; the rest of the year open for groups by 8 - Petronell a demonstration of ancient techniques for prior agreement. Carnuntum working raw materials. On selected days it is 9 - SchWARZenbach also possible to sample prehistoric cooking. 10 - Umhausen Situated in an area of outstanding natural 11 - UnterrabnitZ 2 - BAD DÜrrnberg beauty, the Elsarn open-air museum offers 12 - Uttendorf Salzwelten Salzburg - Keltendorf visitors the chance to journey back in time, experiencing first hand the history of P R M V A peoples that lived here some 1500 years 1 3 3 Ramsaustrasse 3 ago. The museum area includes woodland 5422 Bad Dürrnberg that provides the timber used to recon- Tel +43 (0)62458528515 struct life-size Celtic dwellings. This form of [email protected] experimental archaeology is based on finds www.salzwelten.at uncovered in the area. The village features open all the year, Mon - Sun, 9 - 17. a structure for smoking meat, experimental kitchen gardens and several houses com- P pletely furnished inside. A tall furnace was Salzwelten comprises a variety of visits recently built for smelting metals, and visi- starting at three different locations: Bad tors can witness this practice on selected Dürrnberg, Hallstatt and Altaussee. Quite days. apart from the exhilarating descent into the heart of the salt mines, first mined dur- 4 - GroSSklein ing the Bronze Age, there are also visits Hallstattzeitliches Museum Großklein 1 - Asparn/Zaya 3 - Elsarn where you can find out how salt is extracted (Regionalmuseum für Archäologie der Niederösterreichisches Freilichtmuseum and used, from the earliest times up to Südsteiermark) Museum für Germanisches Gehöft the present. In particular, the Salzwelten P R M V A Urgeschichte Elsarn Salzburg tour takes in Bad Dürrnberg, where visitors can go to Keltendorf, a Celtic Grossklein 10 50 51 Germany 1 - Uhldingen-MÜhlhofen the Federsee, in the southerly Baden- Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen Württemberg region, the Federseemuseum (see page 18) Bad Buchau has achieved its aim of making 36 DE archaeology attractive to the public. This it 23 2 - Albersdorf has done by presenting both a conventional- 2 27 Archäologisch-Ökologisches Zentrum style museum, with a significant collec- 22 Albersdorf tion of archaeological objects, as well as Hamburg 40 an open-air section with 12 reconstructed 38 P R M V A prehistoric dwellings. The Federsee is an 42 ermany Süderstrasse 47 area of exceptional value on the European 15 G 28 25767 Albersdorf archaeological scene, because a rare concen- 35 Tel +49 (0)4835950293 tration of prehistoric human settlements was 44 6 [email protected] discovered there: from Palaeolithic encamp- Hannover 5 BERLIN www.aoeza.de ments built by deer hunters to Neolithic and 12 open from April to October, Tue - Fri, 11 - Bronze Age villages constructed on piles. 26 31 45 17, Sun, 14 - 17. In other periods advanced The museum’s many reconstructions refer to 47 20 booking only. the latter two periods. The reconstruction 41 work, which began in 1995, has yet to be 32 P concluded: maintenance of the huts is an 25 46 Cologne Dresden Since 1997, the Archäologisch-Ökologisches ongoing operation, and recently pirogues 11 Zentrum at Albersdorf (AÖZA), in the were added, as were ovens for cooking food. 43 34 northerly region of Schleswig-Holstein, The public is often invited to witness these 4 has been working on a project to recre- activities. 7 ate 40 hectares of natural and agricultural landscape as similar as possible to that 4 - BAD Homburg 29 Frankfurt 39 which existed here during the Neolithic Römerkastell Saalburg period, some 5,000 years ago. In 1999, the 10 project found concrete expression in the P R M V A reconstruction of a Neolithic village, whose Saalburg 1 8 30 17 24 wood and clay dwellings were built next to 61350 Bad Homburg Stuttgart 21 33 original prehistoric funerary monuments, Tel +49 (0)61759374-0 13 which can be visited during your excursion [email protected] 16 19 to the AÖZA. Demonstrations for families are www.saalburgmuseum.de 14 3 organised by staff in prehistoric costume. open from March to October, Mon - Sun, 9 - 9 Munich 37 There is also a museum at Albersdorf that 18; from November to February, Tue - Sun, 1 18 houses finds from archaeological excavations 9 - 16 (during school holidays, Mon - Sun). conducted in the surrounding area (Museum Closed 24 and 31 December. für Archäologie und Ökologie Dithmarschen, Tel +49 04835971974). P Römerkastell Saalburg, an archaeology 3 - BAD Buchau museum quite unlike any other, is situated 1 - Uhldingen-MÜhlhofen 17 - Kelheim 33 - Ringelai 2 - Albersdorf 18 - Kempten 34 - Sachsenburg Federseemuseum Bad Buchau just a few km North West of Frankfurt, at 3 - BAD Buchau 19 - Kirchheim 35 - SALZWedel Bad Homburg. An ancient Roman fortress 4 - BAD Homburg 20 - Klein KÖris 36 - SchlesWIG P R M V A has been entirely reconstructed there, and 5 - Berlin 21 - KÖngen 37 - Seebruck August Gröber Platz vestiges of the original can be seen next to 6 - Berlin - Hermsdorf 22 - KussoW 38 - Stadland 88422 Bad Buchau the main visitors’ entrance.