Everybody Else is doing It, so Why Can’t We? Low-tech and High-tech Approaches in Archaeological Open-Air Museums

Abstract

Some people believe that an open-air museum is a place where you leave your modern technique behind and go ‘low tech’. Other than the museums which act like digital free zones, many others experiment with going digital. Where experience and storytelling have always been the central concepts of archaeological open-air museums, exactly these ideas are behind many digital techniques. We have to pick up the public where they are and approach them as they are. We should use all the means at our audience hands to reach them, and not only in the open air, also in the digital world.

Keywords

• archaeological open-air museum
• interpretation
• story telling
• virtual reconstruction
• newest era