Roeland Paardekooper offers services in the area of archaeology & public. Paardekooper often gets inspired by things abroad and works very internationally. His expertises are into archaeological open-air museums (AOAM) and experimental archaeology in all its appearances. Paardekooper is archaeologist and organiser and knows what it takes to create a framework for others, to enable, to get the things done which are requested. He likes to make feasibility studies and short term plans. Besides that he often organises international conferences, think tanks and workshops. He has also wide experience in writing and running EU Projects. For years he has been a Community Manager on different Social Media platforms, managing several groups and pages, connecting thousands of people.
 

Latest Projects

Director MC (DK)

From: 
2021 to 2022
Director MC (DK)

In Denmark, about 1.5 hours south of Copenhagen, one will find the Middelaldercentret. Founded in 1992, the founding father Peter Vemming retired in 2021 and I took over. There was a lot to do, partly because of big challenges in the region: a tunnel was being built to Germany and ...

RETOLD

From: 
2020 to 2024
RETOLD

RETOLD is a Creative Europe cooperation project running from 2020 to 2024. With Retold, we intend to provide a tool for professionalisation of open-air museums. It is about documentation, digitisation and sharing: The RETOLD project will ensure that open-air museums can continue telling important cultural heritage stories to...

World Tour

From: 
2020 to 2021
World Tour

Online Conference: a world tour of experimental archaeology. In 2021, EXARC was about to host the biannual conference on experimental archaeology. The previous conference in this series was held in Italy, with 200 participants. But with a worldwide lockdown caused by Corona, we had to do things differently...