Launch of The Digital Burial Mound

Our interactive installation “The Digital Burial Mound” (Den Digitale Gravhøj) was launched in this weekend at the Archeologic Museum in Haderselv, in the southern region of Denmark.

We have developed it as a experience into the excitement and mystery of discovering the ancient stories of our ancestors. Visitors will dig out the mound themselves, with real archeologist’s tools from the museum, in sand and find the items that was burried witht hte Skrydstrup Woman more than 3000 years ago. The items are all digitally projected into the sand and one item – for instance her golden earring – is excavated it will be moved onto a large screen where several different kinds of stories about the item is displayed. The “archaeologists” must then discuss and decide which of the stories they want to choose for their own collection about the Skrydstrup Woman. In that way we activate the imaginative aspect of archaeology and show that our past is also something we decide when we find it – something that is pliable to interpretation.

I hope you will go see the installation. It will be part of the permanent exhibition at The Haderslev Archaeologic Museum.