Archeological Open-Air Museum near Bielefeld.
The museum depicts buildings, plants, and animals from Prehistoric to the Early Middle Ages. It also offers various courses and activities for children and adults, and it hosts Roman, Celtic and Viking events. http://www.afm-oerlinghausen.de/ (Website in German only)
A new open-air museum near Munich which was opened in May 2005. A complete bavarian manor from the 6th to 7th century are planned and currently re-constructed at the museum site. http://www.bajuwarenhof.de/ (Website in German only)
The German National Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven displays an enormously large collection of ships, including a number of Middle age ships. http://www.dsm.de/
The Helms-Museum concentrates on pre-historic and early Northern Germany with a focus on the Hamburg / Harburg area. It owns one of the biggest collections of archeological finds from this region dating from as early as 36000 BC to the middle ages. http://www.helmsmuseum.de/ (Website in German only)
Historical theme park in South Germany with reconstructions of medi-eval buildings. The park also hosts various events. http://www.adventon.de/ (Website in German only.)
The museum was founded in the late 1930s and consists of various historic buildings. The exhibition features the history of the region from Stone Age to the High Middle Ages. http://www.kreismuseum-diepholz.de/ (Website in German only.)
Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf
This foundation consists of a number of museums in the northernmost federal state of Germany, such as museums of ethnography, of anthropology, and of archaelogy.
Gottorf castle itself is home to the Nydam boat, the Viking exhibition can be found in Haddeby (Haithabu). http://www.schloss-gottorf.de/ (Website in German only)
In its collection the museum presents the eventful history of the Danewerk ramparts from the Iron Age through the Viking period and the Middle Ages up to the present. http://www.museen-sh.de/ml/inst.php?inst=11
The museum Düppel in Berlin is the attempt to reconstruct a whole village and its environment as it existed about 800 years ago. This also includes ancient domestic animal species, plants that have been long forgotten, and old handicrafts. Results from the experimental archeological research are regularly published. The museum web site also features a nice database for old crafts. http://www.dueppel.de/ (Website in German only)
The “Oldenburger Wall” - former "Starigard" - was an important settlement and a significant residence of Slavonic Counts for a couple of centuries.
Visitors to today’s “Wall Museum” and the mighty “Ringwall” walk on historical ground and on one of the most important archaeological monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. A stroll on the reconstructed ring fortress gives you an impression of its dimensions and size. The Slawonic settlement once was connected to the “Oldenburger Graben” (an estuary), but the area has silted up and almost been completely drained since Slavonic times. http://www.oldenburger-wallmuseum.de/
The museum focuses on regional history - geographic and social aspects of the Ruhr region from the very beginning to today. http://www.ruhrlandmuseum.de/ (Website in German only)
The Roman-German Central Museum is an archaeological museum as well as a research institute for archaeology. At four locations in Rhineland-Palatinate the visitor gets information about the different aspects of archaeological research from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. http://www.rgzm.de/ (Website in German only)
A small museum in Lüdenscheid displaying various aspects of the history of iron working (forging and file making). The museum is opened from May to October. During the last weekends of June and Augustm, shows are scheduled in which all equipment of the exhibition is actually used. http://www.bremecker-hammer.de/ (Website in German only)
An installation of 1.4 acres with reconstructions of cottages, shelter, and a slav ship, the offer to do early medieval craft itself, like pots, smiths, carving, weaving, felts, candles pull or turn, lard stone to work. http://www.slawendorf-neustrelitz.de/
The Lütjenburg motte-and-bailey castle is an authentic reconstruction of a 12th century fortification from the Wagrien region (the land between the Bay of Kiel and the Bay of Lübeck). Around the castle, a homestead with 5 buildings is presently being built in close consultation with the archeological authority of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein.
The Lütjenburg (registered) association wants to fill the castle with life. Each year, three markets/camps are organised for this purpose, each with their own unique focus.
The motte's timeline is from about AD 1,000 to AD 1,300 and is considered a link between the Vikings in Haithabu and the Slavs in the Oldenburg region. http://www.turmhuegelburg.de/ (Website in German only)
Reconstructions of slavic settlements and ships from the early Middle ages near Torgelow (Germany). http://www.ukranenland.de/ (Website in German only)
The Viking Museum of Haithabu is dedicated to the archeology and history of the Haithabu settlement and is located right next to the original site which used to be one of the most important settlements in Northern Europe during the Viking Age.
The museum illustrates various aspects of daily life, clothing, defence systems, religion, trade, crafts, and city development through finds, reconstructions, models, and texts.
In the shiphall, the longship found in the harbour of Haithabu during the 1979/1980 excavations is restored under the visitors' eyes. http://www.schloss-gottorf.de/haithabu/frameset.htm (Website in German only)
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