Beleef Het Verleden
Martine Teunissen
Netherlands
Beleef Het Verleden /Experience the Past: to make history matter for a general public!
It is my mission to educate people through costumed live interpretation, an exciting and interactive way to experience history as it might have been. I work with a team of professional freelancers who perform both in first and third person interpretation. We are working for schools, museums, castles, universities, conferences, municipals and not only through the live medium, but also via film and media projections.
Bristol City Museums, Galleries and Archives
Rita Youseph, Learning Administrator
United Kingdom
Catholic University of Linz
Glueckler, Ingo R.
Austria
Ingo is specialised in professional costumed first and third person interpretation and storytelling in historic houses, museums, castles, outdoor environments and other historic venues with experience of playing everyday characters from the Medieval period through to Southern Germany and Austria in the Napoleonic Wars. Most roles have been unscripted, drawing on research and improvisation. His work has include freelance contracts at the State-Owned "Castles and Gardens in Baden-Württemberg" (Heidelberg Castle, Bruchsal Palace, Mannheim Palace, Schwetzingen Palace, UNESCO-World Heritage Site Cistercian Abbey Maulbronn, Benedictine Abbey Alpirsbach/Black Forest, Rastatt Palace), the German Pharmacy Museum, the Youth Hostel Association and the Speyer City Council.
Chance Encounters Heritage Interpretation Theatre Company
Val Williams, Artistic Director
United Kingdom
Fotevikens Museum
Buttler Jakobsen, Björn M.
Sweden
The Museum of Foteviken in Sweden is an Archeological Open Air Museums and has apart from working with living history and live interpretation three main spheres of activities:
* The maritime archaeology and history is the important base of the museum activities.
* The task of making the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages resurrect.
* The spreading out of knowledge of history via modern IT-techniques.
The Museum of Foteviken owns some 70.000 square metres of meadowland at The Bay of Höllviken. Most of this area is a plateau. This land is divided into different areas of activities.
The reconstructed Viking Age village, The Viking Reserve is situated upon the plateau. 24 reconstructed houses. working with live interpretation Located in the lowland area are the administration, IT and research buildings.
Georgian State Museum of Theatre, Music, Cinema & Choreography
Kalandia, George
Georgia
Gillian Brownson - The Home of Astonishing Adventures
Gill Brownson
United Kingdom
Storyteller, performer and writer working in Arts & Heritage sites across North Wales and other areas.
Guernsey 'History in Action' Company
John Gaisford
United Kingdom
The Guernsey 'History in Action' Company runs a programme of Live Interpretation at a number of historic sites throughout the summer season and for special events. It also supports the Education programme.
Members research,write, costume and prepare stories largely relating to Guernsey's local history but often within the wider context of world affairs.
Presentations range from single handed first person storytelling to short plays and pageants.
Guernsey Museum & Art Gallery
Jo Dowding, Access & Learning Manager
United Kingdom
Hello there, I am Josephine Dowding and I am the Access & Learning Manager for Guernsey Museums.
Guernsey Museums are funded by the local government (the States of Guernsey) and we have 3 main venues and over 70 historic sites in our care. The 3 paying venues are Guernsey Museum & Art Gallery, Castle Cornet and Fort Grey Shipwreck Museum. Our website is www.museum.gov.gg
There is only one member of staff in the education department (me) and I rely on the skills of my colleagues and many other experts to deliver the education service. My predecessor Lynne Ashton is the founder and driving force behind GHIAC (Guernsey History in Action Company). Originally set up as part of museum education, it has grown and flourished and is now its own Company. I am forever grateful to Lynne for setting up such a worthwhile and valuable service! I still work closely with Lynne and GHIAC members, who perform regularly at our sites, in schools and other venues.
Halve Maen 1609 - Westfries Museum
Pothaar, Annemarie
Netherlands
Ms. drs. Annemarie Pothaar (1977) Master of Arts in Heritage Education & Interpretation.
After studying a bachelor degree of Leisure Studies in Rotterdam NL, Annemarie finished her Master of Arts degree (2001) in the UK at Newcastle University and was supervised by Dr. Peter Stone, one of the UKs leading specialists in heritage education.
Since then she has worked for a national park, historical museums, archaeological open-air museums and the Dutch Royal Armouries. She is currently working as the projectccordinator of the 1609 replica Dutch East Indiaship Halve Maen in the city of Hoorn, as a freelance research professional and for the Batavia in Lelystad.
Annemarie is a visitor experience and interpretation developer, specialised in engaging visitors through a variety of interpretive techniques and encouraging learning in informal and formal heritage encounters.
Historic Royal Palaces
Gidlow, Chris
United Kingdom
Live Interpretation Manager Historic Royal Palaces. Ground-breaking state of the art immersive learning and entertainment.
History's Maid
Kate Vigurs
United Kingdom
For hire: Sword fighters, highwaymen, pirates, jousters, princesses, executioners, side saddle ladies, men in shining armour, fallen women and so much more.
History's Maid is a historical interpretation and research company with a passion for history and bringing it to life in a variety of creative, authentic and engaging ways through workshops and presentations designed for a variety of venues and audiences across the UK. The team is made of professional actors/interpreters, combat experts, horsemen and historians and we can turn our hand to anything from monologues to plays, from lectures to jousts.
Company director Dr Kate Vigurs is an experienced and engaging historical interpreter with twelve years professional experience in research, live historical interpretation and re-enactment having worked for Royal Armouries, Imperial War Museum North and English Heritage to name but a few.
Iceland Saga & Heritage Association
Rognvaldur Gudmundsson
Iceland
Icelandic Saga & Heritage Association
Icelandic Saga & Heritage Association (ISHA) was founded in 2006. Its objective is to be a forum for collaboration for those involved in saga and heritage related tourism in Iceland, especially regarding publicity, quality and professional standards. The members (over 100) are museums, exhibitions, heritage sites, man-made structures, festivals, the sites of certain sagas, professional individuals etc. Take a look at ISHA website: www.sagatrail.is
Milestones Museum
Assistant Community Engagement & Learning Officer
United Kingdom
We invite our visitors to suspend their disbelief while they travel back in time, perhaps to reminisce about their childhood or their parents' childhood.
But by using a mixture of 1st and 3rd person interpretation we are able to give visitors the chance to talk and interact with the past, whether this be through demonstrations, stories, plays or conversations with the interpreter team.
What makes Milestones "Hampshire's Living History Museum" is this opportunity to challenge and ask questions about the past in order to make comparisons with the way we live today, as shown with our Romany Wedding piece which uses history to challenge modern prejudices about the gypsy community today.
Our way of interpreting the people of the past is informative, challenging and entertaining but it is also extremely respectful.
Our team is passionate about history and about breathing life into the past for our visitors.
Museum of Science and Industry
Steve Howe, Gareth Redston, Sally Stevens
United Kingdom
MOSI is the award-winning Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester.
Museum-Theater-Events
Pfenninger, Angela
Germany
My name is Angela Pfenninger, I live in the South-West of Germany and am a historical interpreter. I offer concepts, scripting or scenario draft, as well as actual performance of museum theatre.
This can be delivered first or third person, costumed and non-costumed to professional standard in German and English. My focus is on interactive formats that involve the audience (second person interpretation), and I also use methods of biographical theatre. The most unusual work I did was probably for art galleries, and wrtiting a museum comic book. On behalf of the Rhineland-Palatinate Museums Association, I also teach short courses on live interpretation, together with a specialist on historical dance & movement and a costume historian.
National Museums Liverpool - Liverpool Museum
Jo Connor Theatre Manager
United Kingdom
The Treasure House Theatre is an 80 seater multi functional space housed within World Museum Liverpool. I manage the space, programme the events and line manage two demonstrators.Our aim is to interpret the collections and ethos of Wolrd Museum using a number of diferent methods.The theatre has a number of facilities ranging from a cinema size screen to stage lighting and we hold a diverse range of events such as dance and drumming workshops, films,conferences,Adult talks, live video links for members of the public,school and educationl groups, community groups and corporate events.
Nordic Folkloristics, Åbo Akademi University and The Nordic Museum, Stockholm,
Tora Wall
Sweden
Novitas Heritage, Interpret Europe
Marc Van Hasselt
Netherlands
Marc operates his own heritage business, Novitas Heritage. He is also Live Interpretation coordinator for Interpret Europe.
Reise-Tourismus-Museum
Klaus Hänel
Germany
I am a private Person leading that Museum since 2006
