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RETOLD: Vlogging webinar

On May 21 and May 28 the RETOLD webinar “Vlogging in Open-Air Museums” took place online. In the original plan we were hoping to have it live during the conferences, however due to Covid restrictions and difficulties with travels abroad, as well as high need to have it done rather sooner than later - it was decided to go online. The workshop was organized by Museumsdorf Düppel (DE)...

Results of the Project virt:düppel now on Sketchfab!

The project virt:düppel was carried as part of a cooperation between the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin and the Stadtmuseum Berlin and was funded by digiS – the research centre for digitisation Berlin. Projekte 2019 – digiS (digis-berlin.de) The aim of the project was the digitisation of cultural heritage – in this case of the house reconstructions in the medieval open-air museum “Museumsdorf Düppel” ...

RETOLD: Digitisation in Open-Air Museums - Questionnaire

Are you managing an open-air museum? Please tell us about how digital media and tools are used in your organisation. Help us by filling in this short survey online. This survey is part of the EU project RETOLD. Our main goal is to ensure that archaeological open-air museums (AOAM) can continue telling important cultural heritage stories to a diverse public. We aim to develop a useful workflow to collect, digitise, and share data...

RETOLD Visibility

From the beginning of the year 2021, EXARC has been working on creating a clear style for the RETOLD project: the products and communication. So far we have a logo, approved by all partners, and basic styles to use on Social Media (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). These are media EXARC is very present on and will share progress with. First we are going to present our partners and the project itself, later more products will be designed...

Kicking-off RETOLD

Early December, we silently started with the EU Project RETOLD. This is all about open-air museums and the documentation, digitization and sharing of their stories. The start of the project is mainly about ensuring all partners agree with what we promised Brussels, checking what changed since a year ago and where challenges may arise in the start of the 4-year project. We planned several digital meetings with each partner and one general one...

EXARC Lead Partner in EU project RETOLD

Brussels deemed us worthy: the RETOLD Project gets green light!EXARC leads the way in this documentation and digitising endeavour for open-air museums. In four years, with six partners and a budget of over 300,000 EUR we will develop methods of multimodal documentation which will be brought to the public by means of immersive digital storytelling. We will be happy to start by the end of 2020...

Going Digital as part of the Future

While others were celebrating Carnival elsewhere in Europe, a group of EXARC members and volunteers met in Zaandam (NL) to discuss how we can move things forward in a world where ‘going digital’ offers increasingly more options.  It is very clear to EXARC, digital is a means, but not an end in itself. Our goals are to save information and make this available to all people in our professions around the world...

Yes, We Can! Digital Media in Museums

Who thinks of “Xanten”, thinks of “Romans”. At the end of November, international representatives of archaeological museums convened at the LVR-Archaeological Park Xanten in Germany to talk about the use of digital media in museums. The conference focused on the use of digital media for knowledge transfer in museums. It was clear enough that digitizing content enfolds a whole new world of possibilities...

We do it again – EXARC sends in EU Project Application

On November 26, EXARC sent in a project application to Brussels. The idea is to develop a documentation and digitization strategy for open-air museums, to the benefit of the museums themselves and their visitors. The project goes by the name “Retold Stories - Sustaining Cultural Memories in Open-Air Museums”. EXARC and Stadtmuseum Berlin organise a conference by the same theme in Berlin in March 2020...