Monday, 25 May 2015
Arrival Day
Whole day Coordinating arrivals from airports. Registration and check-in at the Royal Hotel, 88 St Mary
Street, Cardiff, CF10 1DW ( www.royalhotelcardiff.com
).
19:00 – 21:00 Welcome dinner at Pitch restaurant, 3 Mill Lane, Cardiff, CF10 1FL (www.pitchcardiff.com)
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Venue: National Museum Cardiff, CF10 3NP (www.museumwales.ac.uk/cardiff)
6.30 – 8.30 Breakfast at Royal Hotel, Cardiff
8.45 Bus departs from Westgate Street, at rear of hotel for National Museum Cardiff
9:15 – 13:00 Morning Session, Oriel Suite, National Museum Cardiff
9:15 – 9:20 House keeping
9:20 – 9:35 Conference Welcome
David Anderson, Director General, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum
Wales / President, UK Museums Association.
9:35 – 10:45 Session 1: Roundtable, position statements
Chaired by Martin Schmidt, Lower Saxon State Museum, Hanover / EXARC,
DE / NL
9:45 – 10:45 Papers by report authors.
Luc Eekhout, Heeswijk Castle / EXARC, NL
Margriet Lestraden, Lestraden Museum Consultancy, LV
Martin Schmidt, Lower Saxon State Museum, Hanover / EXARC, DE / NL
10:45 – 11.00 Coffee break
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11:00 – 12:00 Session 2: Roundtable, discussion
Chaired by Martin Schmidt, Lower Saxon State Museum, Hanover / EXARC,
DE / NL
11:00 – 12:00 Position statements from OpenArch partners and discussion
12:00 – 13:00 Session 3: Museum management (strategic approaches)
Chaired by Beth Thomas, St Fagans National History Museum, UK
12:00 – 12:30 “It aint what you do it’s the way that you do it!”
Mike Benson, Bede's World, South Tyneside, UK
12:30 – 13:00 “Towards a master plan – consultation and considerations?”
David Eveleigh, Black Country Living Museum, UK
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch in Oriel Suite and time to visit the galleries
14:00 – 17.00 Afternoon Session, Oriel Suite, National Museum Cardiff
14:00 – 15:30 Session 4: Museum management (case studies)
Chaired by Linda Hurcombe, Exeter University, UK
14:00 – 14:30 “Methods for mapping and developing universal accessibility at museums and cultural institutions, including archaeological open-air museums."
Linda Nilsen Ask, Rogaland County Council, NO
14:30 – 15:00 "A Viking Residential Experience. Combining Fundamental Learning with the Reality of Generating Income."
Luke Winter, Ancient Technology Centre, UK
15:00 – 15:30 “The Scottish Crannog Centre: sustainability in a self-funded archaeological open-air museum.”
Barrie Andrian, Scottish Crannog Centre, UK
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
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15:45 – 17:00 Session 5: Museum management (case studies)
Chaired by Beth Thomas, St Fagans National History Museum, UK
15:45 – 16:05 “The Journey to the Park in the Past.”
Paul Harston, Park in the Past, UK
16:05 – 16:25 “Fairy tale or Scary-tale? Making ends meet at The Irish National
Heritage Park …”
Maura Bell, Irish National Heritage Park, IE
16:25 – 16:55 “Towards a Best Practise of Volunteer use within Archaeological
Open-Air Museums: an overview with recommendations for future sustainability and growth.”
Andy Spencer, Ironbridge Institute, UK
17.30 – 18.30 Tour of Cardiff Castle, CF10 3RB (www.cardiffcastle.com)
A behind the scenes tour of a 19 th -century recreation of a medieval castle
18.30 – 20.00 Bus to Cardiff Bay
A guided walk around Cardiff Bay, David Jenkins, St Fagans National History
Museum, UK
20:00 Dinner in Ffresh, Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay restaurant, CF10 5AL
(www.wmc.org.uk/EatDrinkShop/ffresh)
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Venue: St Fagans National History Museum, CF5 6XB (www.museumwales.ac.uk/stfagans)
6.30 – 8.30 Breakfast at Royal Hotel, Cardiff
8.45 Bus departs from Westgate Street, at rear of hotel for St Fagans National History Museum
9.15 – 12.20 Morning Session, Oakdale Workmen’s Institute, St Fagans National History Museum.
Chaired by Manel Gomez, La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell, CT
9:30 – 10:00 Introductory lecture: St Fagans past and present
Beth Thomas, St Fagans National History Museum, UK
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10:00 – 11:00 Session 1: Presentation of the results of OpenArch project work packages
(part 1)
10:00 – 10:20 The dialogue with museum management (WP2).
Björn Jakobsen, Fotevikens Museum, SE
10:20 – 10:40 The dialogue with visitors (WP3).
Jack Veldman, Archeon, NL
10:40 – 11:00 The dialogue with skills (WP4).
Rüdiger Kelm, Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf, DE, and Alessia
Pelillo, Parco Archeologico e Museo all’aperto della Terramara di Montale,
IT
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:20 Session 2: Presentation of the results of OpenArch project work packages
(part 2)
11:20 – 11:40 The dialogue with science (WP5).
Linda Hurcombe, Exeter University, UK, and Leena Lehtinen, Kierikki Stone
Age Centre, FI
11:40 – 12:00 The dialogue with museum organisations (WP6).
Manel Gomez, La Ciutadella Ibérica de Calafell, CT
12:00 – 12:20 Communication and dissemination (WP7).
Hein Klompmaker, Hunebedcentrum, NL
12:20 – 13:20 Buffet lunch provided in Oakdale Workmen’s Institute.
10:00 – 17:00 Parallel activities
10:00 – 16:00 OpenArch face to face meetings, in the Committee Room, St Fagans
12:20 – 17:00 Craft Festival (open to the public from 10:00)
An opportunity to explore a variety of ancient and historic crafts demonstrated by craftspeople from Wales and across Europe
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14:30 – 17:00 Additional guided tours (for conference delegates)
These tours must be pre-booked and will only run if there is sufficient interest.
Please inform Steve or Mared by the end of Tuesday if you would like to attend.
14:30 Running a historic castle garden in an open-air museum, Gardening staff, St
Fagans
Meet at the front door of the castle (no. 54 on your site plan)
15:30 Running a working farm in an open-air museum, Farm staff, St Fagans.
Meet at Llwyn-yr-eos Farm (no. 6 on your site plan)
16:30 Introduction to the Gweithdy gallery construction site, Keir Group –
Construction.
Meet at Gweithdy (letter “A” on your site plan).
14:00 – 17:00 Celebration of OpenArch, in the Oakdale Institute (open to public)
A chance to see a selection of videos produced during the course of the OpenArch project.
14:00 – 17:00 Evaluating St Fagans (for conference delegates)
An opportunity for you to play Director and tell us how we should be running St
Fagans (self-led, evaluation forms)
17:15 – 21:00 Late afternoon and evening activities
17.15 Tour of ongoing work at the Iron Age farm, Steve Burrow, St Fagans
Meet at Llwyn-yr-eos Farm (no. 6 on your site plan)
(The Iron Age Farm is a 10 minute walk, up-hill, from Llwyn-yr-eos)
18:00 Networking event, barbeque and band for conference delegates and craft festival participants
Held near Maentwrog hayshed (no. 43 on your site plan)
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Thursday, 28 May 2015
Venue: Big Pit National Coal Museum, NP4 9XP (www.museumwales.ac.uk/bigpit)
6.30 – 8.30 Breakfast at Royal Hotel, Cardiff
8.45 Bus departs from Westgate Street, at rear of hotel for Big Pit National Coal Museum
10:00 – 13:00 Morning Session, Big Pit National Coal Museum
10.00 – 11:15 Introduction to Big Pit and a 50 minute underground tour for all delegates.
11.15 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel activities
11:30 – 13:00 Steering Group Meeting, part 1 (for OpenArch partners)
11:30 – 13:00 Surface tour of Big Pit with Peter Walker, Keeper, Big Pit and Ceri
Thomson, Coal Curator (for others)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch for steering committee members in the conference room, lunch for all others in the
Big Pit Canteen.
14:00 – 17:00 Afternoon Session, Big Pit National Coal Museum and Blaenafon World Heritage Site
17:00
18:00
14:00 – 17:00 Parallel activities
14:00 – 15:00 Steering Group Meeting, part 2 (for OpenArch partners)
14:00 – 17:00 “Heather and Heritage” walking tour of Blaenafon World Heritage
Site (for others) led by Rebecca Hartley and Steve Rogers.
*Please bring sturdy footwear and waterproofs.
Depart for Llancaiach Fawr, near Nelson, Caerphilly, CF46 6ER
Visit and tour of Llancaiach Fawr and evening meal on site
Llancaiach Fawr is a 16 th -century manor house presented to the public through first person interpretation. It is also the site for the Urdd National Eisteddfod (25-30
May 2015), an annual Welsh-language youth festival of literature, music and performing arts
Friday, 29 May 2015
Departure day
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