Theme:
3. Heritage Narratives and Representations
Session format:
Discussion session (with formal abstracts)
Title:
Urban and Underground Archaeology Exposed: 15 Years Cultural Heritage Experience and Public Outreach [Urban Archaeology]
Content:
In 2009 the EU funded initiative Portico started research on how to integrate urban developments with underground archaeological visiting centres. In this project the dissemination of knowledge about building, maintaining, exhibiting an underground visitor center and involving the public stood central. Initiatives had been launched at various locations in Europe, for example in Gent, Cologne and Utrecht. But much has also been done outside this project to make underground archaeological remains visible and experienceable in public spaces.
This main session of the EAA Urban Archaeology Community focusses on what has been done in this area over the past 15 years, what it has achieved, but also what, if anything, could have been done better. We would like to focus on two specific themes:
- Building (underground) visiting centres around archaeological remains;
- Integrating archaeology in public space.
We would like to suggest the following topics:
• Evaluation of 15 years’ experience of developing exhibited (underground) archaeological sites.
• How to build an (underground) visitor center (best practices)
• Managing and monitoring the exhibited archaeological sites
• How to combine in-situ preservation and exhibiting archaeology: site protection versus site exposition
• Impact of climate change on (underground) exhibitions (groundwater tables/ floods)
• Indoor climate and vulnerable remains (fungi, efflorescence; drying out)
• Outdoor climate and vulnerable remains (rain, sun, frost)
• Training guides and volunteers.
• Public outreach
• Making archaeology attractive (stories, VR, apps, websites)
• preserving archaeological remains in relation to the great spatial pressure in cities
In this session we will explicitly not focus on one specific period and region and welcome papers from within and outside Europe.
Keywords:
urban archaeology, public outreach, underground visiting centres, heritage management, in situ preservation, monitoring
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Urban Archaeology community
Main organiser:
Bertil Os (Netherlands) 1
Co-organisers:
Theo M.A. Wijk (Netherlands) 2
Jeroen Bouwmeester (Netherlands) 3
Paul Belford (United Kingdom) 4
Michael Wiehen (Germany) 5
Affiliations:
1. Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
2. Domunder, Utrecht
3. Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
4. Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
5. Stadt Koeln
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