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From March 22 to 26 2021 a good practice workshop on site strengthening through living history and virtual reality incentives took place online. The workshop was meant to bring together international experts and museum specialists from the whole Danube Region and beyond in the archaeological park Carnuntum in Austria, but had to be held online due to the Covid19 travel restrictions.
The restrictions however did not stand in the way of a fruitful and informative workshop, which resulted in a number of brilliant ideas that are going to be part of the Living Danube Limes project achievements.
A video message from the general manger and the scientific director of Carnuntum, both associated strategic partners of our project, kicked off the workshop. It included a behind the scenes tour in the archaeological depot and visits to the museum and the archaeological park. The first day of the workshop was dedicated to the story and history of Carnuntum and the broad topic of living history and re-enactment, including challenges and possibilities both hold.
Day two focused on site strengthening through Roman festivals, with valuable inputs from our colleagues from the Hadrian’s Wall in Great Britain as well as a number of former and ongoing EU projects dealing with archaeology and its presentation.
Day three was dedicated to interpretation of archaeological finds and historical knowledge and transfer to museums and visitors. A special focus on the possibility of engaging broad audiences with reconstructed Roman ships was added with a paper on the reconstructed Zwammerdamm ships in the Netherlands and their value for entrepreneurship and tourism on local, regional and (inter)national levels.
After three immensely interesting days of theoretical input the participants of the workshop started to develop their very own ideas for our project in three syndicate working groups on communication and museum clusters, living history, virtual reality and interpretation as well as Covid19 challenges and possibilities. 92 participants from literally all around the globe (Japan to Great Britain) were thrilled to directly contribute to the achievements of Living Danube Limes, a feedback that clearly shows in the questionnaire following the workshop.
Programme of the Workshop
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