Ename 974

• Overview

• Team

• Feast of a Thousand Years

• TimeLine

• Archeolab

• Education department

• Garden

In the TimeLine, interactive Virtual Reality is used to place various excavated objects in their historical context and thereby help the visitor to gain an understanding of the living world of Ename over the last thousand years.

In the TimeLine, a traditional, chronologically arranged display of excavated archaeological artifacts is juxtaposed with a Virtual Reality application. On one side of the exhibit room, the artifacts are presented in small exhibit cases. On the other, a computer application places each of these objects in its original spatial and chronological context: Where was it discovered? What culture or activity did it belong to? Through virtual images the object can be placed in the historical milieu in which it was used.


Front view of a Romanesque crozier	Rear view

This system offers an effective means of archaeological presentation: it can be continuously updated and expanded as additional discoveries are made. An additional program is currently available at the museum in which the excavations and restoration work at the nearby Saint Laurentius church are shown and regularly updated.