Petäjävisi, Finland

Hygge  and Heritage - World Heritage and Local Services Seminar

In 2018 AWHC advised the organizers of the Hygge & Heritage – World Heritage and Local Services Seminar about their Seminar program and themes, and was responsible for the moderation. This international Seminar brought together 100 participants with an interest in developing lesser-known World Heritage Sites and their impact on local communities, organizations and businesses.

http://hygge-and-heritage-seminar.humak.fi/

Spakenburg,

the Netherlands

AWHC was commissioned by the Municipality of Bunschoten, the Netherlands, to map the funding opportunities on the local, national and international level for the activities related to the realization of the mission as formulated in the Master plan Preservation Museum Harbor Spakenburg: the sustainable conservation and preservation of Museum Harbor Spakenburg. AWHC also consulted on the design of the organization for the implementation of the Master plan.

Rotterdam,

the Netherlands

Visitor survey,  Markthal Rotterdam

AWHC participated in a visitor survey at the ‘time stairs’ that are located in the Market Hal in Rotterdam. The project was initiated by Leiden University, faculty of Archaeology and conducted with Dr. M. van den Dries and  drs. A. van Rhijn from Leiden University and students from the  research group Archaeological Heritage Management from the Archaeology Faculty (Leiden University ).

Zwammerdam,

the Netherlands

Heritage and quality of life

AWHC participated in a study that goes into the value of social utilisation of archeological heritage and heritage and quality of life. The study is done at the care facility for mentally handicapped people, Ipse de Bruggen, where recently the Limes Visitor Centre NIGRVM PVLLVM was opened that displays the Roman heritage that was excavated on their grounds. The integration of the archaeological heritage in the daily life of people with a mental handicap makes this a unique project. The longitudinal monitoring study to measure the effects was initiated by Dr. M. van den Dries (Leiden University) and also conducted by students (Leiden University) and  Tom Hazenberg from Advise Agency Hazenberg Archaeology.

Montalbano Elicona, Sicily Italy

2018 ICAHM Annual Meeting: Discover Sicily’s Argimusco – a Holistic Approach to Heritage Management

On behalf of the International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), FoI organized the 2018 ICAHM Annual Meeting. The  focus if the meeting was on the overriding need to develop a holistic and integrated approach to heritage management.

Bagamoyo, Tanzania

2017 ICAHM Annual Meeting: Sub-Saharan Africa And International Trade Routes

On behalf of the International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), FoI organized the 2017 ICAHM Annual Meeting in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. The emphasis of this meeting was on trade routes to and from Sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of the world, the Africa Initiative, and conservation and sustainable use of paleoanthropological sites.

Salalah, Oman

2016 ICAHM Annual Meeting: Archaeological Park as World Heritage Site - Management Strategy for the Future

On behalf of the International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), FoI organized the 2016 ICAHM Annual Meeting in Salalah, Oman, 2-5 May, in cooperation with ICOMOS Oman. The focus of this conference was on the  sustainable management of archaeological World Heritage Sites.

Switzerland

Site of the Month

ArchaeoConcept and the association ArchaeoToursim decided to promote Swiss archaeology, landscapes and treasures through a unique and original sustainable tourism project. The particularity of this project is the strong collaboration between archaeologists, palaeontologists and tourism professionals, as well as local historical associations. From June 2015 each month one site in one canton of Switzerland is put in the spotlight.

www.site-of-the-month.ch/en/

Glasgow, Scotland

Roundtable discussion EAA Annual Conference

Together with Dr. Ben Thomas from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), ArchaeoConcept and ArchaeoTourism2012 organized a roundtable, ‘Archaeotourism on the Move: Developing Guidelines for Europe’ at the EAA annual conference in Glasgow in 2015. The primary goal for this roundtable was to establish a framework for a set of European guidelines on archaeological tourism. The most important outcome of the roundtable discussion was the foundation of an EAA Working Party (WP) ‘Integrating the Management of Archaeological Heritage and Tourism’ and the outcome of this WP would be creating European guidelines for archaeological tourism for Europe and beyond, maintaining and sustaining an information platform and professional network.

Jishou, China

ICAHM Conference 

On behalf of the International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), ArchaeoConcept organised the Annual ICAHM meeting in Jishou (Hunan Province, China), which was held from the 20th to the 23rd of October 2014 in close cooperation with ICOMOS China and Jishou University.

Istanbul, Turkey

Session EAA Annual Conference

Together with Dr. Ben Thomas from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), ArchaeoConcept and ArchaeoTourims012 organised the session ‘Archaeology and Tourism’ at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Conference.

With this session it was our goal to explore the possibilities and best practices of presenting archaeological research and communicating the importance of archaeological heritage to an interested public. We also aimed to explore how archaeologists can work with tourism experts to create public awareness and make the development of archaeological sites profitable in a sustainable way.

Biel, Switzerland

Regatta Biel

The prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps became UNESCO World Heritage in 2011 and consist of 111 sites in 6 countries around the Alps of which 56 are located in Switzerland. For this reason the Nouveau Musée Biennois (NMB) organized the exhibition «Logboat. Prehistory of Navigation» and in connection to this exhibition, on May 18th 2014, the NMB and ArchaeoConcept organized a logboat regatta and festival on the Lake of Biel, Switzerland.

Argentina

Helbling Argentina

The exhibition was focussed on the scientific work of the Swiss geologist, geographer and cartographer Robert Helbling, who explored the mountains and glaciers of the Andes south of the Aconcagua. The exhibition Bivouac#08. Tierra incógnita. The cartographic collection of Argentina of Robert Helbling was shown in the Swiss alpine Museum  (alps), from December 14 2013 to 8th of June 2014.

Thun, Switzerland

Conference

Together with the association Archaeotourism2012 ArchaeoConcept organized the first national “Archaeology and Tourism” conference, at Thun Castle 8-9 November 2012. More than fifty participants, archaeologists as well as tourism specialists, came together to identify their common interests, explore their differences, and to get know each other better with a view to working together more effectively.

Baden, Switzerland

Conference

Together with the association Archaeotourism2012 and the town of Baden (Switzerland), ArchaeoConcept organised this international conference in Baden from the 27th till the 29th of November 2014. This conference brought together archaeologists, historians, built heritage experts, investors as well as tourism and marketing specialists and managers of modern bath and wellness resorts.