Journey
to the Beginnings
The project is Co-funded by the
Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Project description
Journey to the Beginnings is a collaborative project involving prehistoric cultural heritage sites and museums, contemporary arts and new technologies to rediscover and promote the prehistoric cultural heritage of the ancient civilisations that lived along the river Danube. The main goal of the project is to develop a new interpretive infrastructure for the involved prehistoric sites, their museums and archaeological parks by using cultural heritage as a source of inspiration for contemporary arts and new technologies. The project will examine new ways of heritage interpretation to help enhance public appreciation of prehistoric cultures in all their forms and diversity.
In the framework of the project we are fostering a cross-sectoral collaboration between archaeologists, museum professionals, contemporary artists and IT experts which will result in live performances and a complex Augmented and Virtual Reality based application.
The live performances will be celebrations of the prehistoric cultural heritage taking the form of festivals at each site, and the application will offer a sustainable interpretive infrastructure that will develop the visitor experience.
The Journey to the Beginnings project takes on the challenge to tear down the walls between modern and ancient civilizations and connects them with the participation of art and science bringing the audience closer both to archaeology, contemporary art and modern technology.
The involved archeological sites are Lepenski Vir in Serbia, the Iron Gates Region Museum in Romania, the Vucedol Culture Museum in Croatia and the Matrica Museum in Hungary, embracing the history of 9500-6000BC, 3000-2500BC and 2000-1400BC.
Locations
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MATRICA MUSEUM AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK
Százhalombatta, Hungary
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VUČEDOL CULTURE MUSEUM
Vukovar, Croatia
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LEPENSKI VIR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE AND MUSEUM
Boljetin, Serbia
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IRON GATES MUSEUM
Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania
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See Also
Zsuzsa Berecz & Árpád Bőczén: INTERPRETIVE VALUATION AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE - Download PDF
As heritage managers and interpretation experts, we increasingly have the opportunity to contribute to projects focusing on showcasing heritage values and audience development. [...] Helping to establish a bond between heritage and the people is among our most important missions, thus preserving heritage. However, we also have to ‘value’ heritage, not simply ‘evaluate’, or ‘assess’. As unusual as the interpretive practice seems in the Hungarian heritage scene, the more necessary it is. Why? This is what we are trying to highlight in regard to a particular project.
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