03-25-2008, 06:24 PM
Salvete Omnes!
When we we’re hosting our event at the National Museum one of the curators made an interesting suggestion to us ‘with all of this equipment, why don’t you open your own museum?’. We thought she was joking, but she was being serious. We talked a little about this. She told me there were many ‘part-time’ private museums operating in the UK and in Europe, and we had the extra dimension of being able to offer various activities to the public.
This gave us food for thought. Would it be possible for a group of enthusiastic re-enactors to set-up and run a museum? We have done a bit of research, spoken with the National museum, the Cork city museum and with UCC and the Corporation. All have promised support for such a project. With their encouragement we have decided to give it a go!
We have decided to open an Ancient Warfare museum. This museum will display original and replica artefacts, military equipment and clothing based around several themes such as life in a fort, life on campaign, life of civilians etc. Apart from equipment there will be history and story boards and many small exhibits. We will add to the displays as we purchase more items.
The museum will initially focus on Greek and Roman history and be part time, opening one week-end per month, but we hope to extend this to two week-ends per month eventually, in time who knows! We would like this to be used by other groups to run historical events from other periods. There is a huge amount of work involved in this and no doubt we’ll probably make all kinds of cock-ups at the start, but we hope the idea of a museum run by enthusiastic re-enactors will work out.
In time we intend to extend the museum to other periods and actively seek your co-operation to stage events and displays because we believe we, the re-enactment community, know how it should be done…or that’s what you all keep telling us!
We are looking at two premises, one near the city centre and one in the ‘burbs’. All going well we will have secured the preemies by mid May and open at the end of May. We intend to have a free space to host displays from guest groups (you) who want to use the venue to stage a display of your historical period and focus.
When we we’re hosting our event at the National Museum one of the curators made an interesting suggestion to us ‘with all of this equipment, why don’t you open your own museum?’. We thought she was joking, but she was being serious. We talked a little about this. She told me there were many ‘part-time’ private museums operating in the UK and in Europe, and we had the extra dimension of being able to offer various activities to the public.
This gave us food for thought. Would it be possible for a group of enthusiastic re-enactors to set-up and run a museum? We have done a bit of research, spoken with the National museum, the Cork city museum and with UCC and the Corporation. All have promised support for such a project. With their encouragement we have decided to give it a go!
We have decided to open an Ancient Warfare museum. This museum will display original and replica artefacts, military equipment and clothing based around several themes such as life in a fort, life on campaign, life of civilians etc. Apart from equipment there will be history and story boards and many small exhibits. We will add to the displays as we purchase more items.
The museum will initially focus on Greek and Roman history and be part time, opening one week-end per month, but we hope to extend this to two week-ends per month eventually, in time who knows! We would like this to be used by other groups to run historical events from other periods. There is a huge amount of work involved in this and no doubt we’ll probably make all kinds of cock-ups at the start, but we hope the idea of a museum run by enthusiastic re-enactors will work out.
In time we intend to extend the museum to other periods and actively seek your co-operation to stage events and displays because we believe we, the re-enactment community, know how it should be done…or that’s what you all keep telling us!
We are looking at two premises, one near the city centre and one in the ‘burbs’. All going well we will have secured the preemies by mid May and open at the end of May. We intend to have a free space to host displays from guest groups (you) who want to use the venue to stage a display of your historical period and focus.
MARCVS VLPIVS NERVA (aka Martin McAree)
www.romanarmy.ie
Legion Ireland - Roman Military Society of Ireland
Legionis XX Valeria Victrix Cohors VIII
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.romanarmy.ie
Legion Ireland - Roman Military Society of Ireland
Legionis XX Valeria Victrix Cohors VIII
[email protected]
[email protected]
