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“Who cares? Museums, wellbeing and resilience” - Horsens (Denmark), 26-28 October 2025. More than 300 museum and cultural sector professionals from 37 countries all over Europe and beyond gathered over three intense days in Horsens for NEMO European Museum Conference. This year's conference asked a fundamental question: Who cares? Turns out that 327 people do, including EXARC delegates Dr. Roeland Paardekooper, Jannie Marie Christensen, and Vittoria Faga....

LANCE, the Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event, was hosted on 5 February 2026 in the main hall of the Leiden University Faculty of Archaeology. The event was intended as a means by which students could discover more about the professional world of archaeology by interacting with several companies, research institutions, and museums...

The Digital Storytelling Festival 2026, organized by Europeana and held online on May 19–20, took place between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. (Lisbon time/GMT). It brought together professionals, researchers, and creators connected to digital cultural heritage, with the aim of exploring innovative storytelling practices and the impact of emerging technologies on cultural mediation...

The CIMA 2026 Conference brought together museum professionals, researchers, practitioners, and heritage specialists from across the world for four days of intensive exchange on agricultural and intangible cultural heritage. Hosted in Lorsch, with key venues including the Museumszentrum Lorsch and the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory, the conference was characterized by a warm and collegial atmosphere, encouraging open dialogue and active participation across disciplines and national traditions.

This book is the result of a seminar with the same title, hosted in Sagnlandet Lejre. It contains a repository of articles focussed on hands-on experiments and experiences covering a range of periods from the Neolithic to the modern era. In addition to this some articles address timeless subjects, dealing with more theoretical frameworks and cooperation such as the second article by Lucas Garbrecht Overvad, and high-tech solutions such as the fourth article by Sofie Louise Andersen. A rough summary and commentary are presented below...

The 7th International Congress of Experimental Archaeology was held by the members of the TracéoLab (Liège, Belgium), between 22 and 25 October 2025. The organising committee was composed of Veerle Rots, Dries Cnuts, Justin Coppe and Sonja Tomasso (See Figure 1). This meeting, which takes place every three years, was eagerly awaited by the experimental archaeology community. It fulfilled all expectations and was a great success...

As a craft specialist with little experience in experimental archeology (EA), I found that with the first reading of this volume the editor and article authors gave me a masterclass in not only understanding Lithuania's craft reconstruction, but also how to write EA articles or papers...

Sally Pointer, an EXARC member, is an experimental archaeologist and heritage educator, and has authored the first nalbinding book in English, which is published by major publishing house (Herbert Press, Bloomsbury Publishing). This crafting book is aimed for textile crafters, as expressed on the sub-tittle, and it has gathered quite a lot of enthusiasm and anticipation during the months leading up to its publication, much due the lack of available printed materials around nalbinding. Does it meet expectations?

This handbook provides a gateway into Roman Experimental Archaeology. Echoing the foreword, Experimental Archaeology is often viewed by those outside the field as the realm of prehistory, where experimentation can be conducted to, and theorise about what is not known. At the same time, due to their historical sources and physical remains, Rome and later periods are perceived as not requiring experimentation. This handbook quells this idea, instead collating the work of skilled and inventive individuals and providing both a framework and inspiration for future work.

On Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October 2025, Montevarchi (Tuscany, province of Arezzo) hosted PaleoFest, the Prehistory Festival. The event was organized by the Montevarchi Paleontological Museum and the Accademia Valdarnese del Poggio, the institution that owns the museum.