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Archaeological Open-Air Museum Swifterkamp

Archaeological Open-Air Museum Swifterkamp

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Archaeological Open-Air Museum Swifterkamp

Name: Archaeological Open-Air Museum Swifterkamp
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Location: Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands

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Jeroen Geradts

September 8, 2024

Archaeological Open Air Museum Swifterkamp

A small village called Swifterkamp is located in a beautiful location in Lelystad Nature Park. The village, currently two farms, a hunter-gatherer hut and three outbuildings, exudes the atmosphere of times long past. Every now and then it is inhabited by groups of adults and children who want to experience for a short or longer period what it would be like to live in the New Stone Age; the time when hunter-gatherers gradually switched to farming (in the middle of the Netherlands from around 6300 years ago).

Especially in spring and summer, the temporary residents work hard at the settlement; they bake bread, make jewellery and tools, collect wood, spin, weave, cook on an open fire, etc. Of course, there is also time to relax by a crackling campfire.

It is not uncommon for groups to decide to spend one or even several nights in the Stone Age. Under the watchful eye of Org, the statue of the god that oversees the entire Swifter camp, people sleep on straw mattresses in the farms that are based on excavations done on site P14 near Schokland. Sleeping in the recently built Middle Stone Age hut is also possible.

In the late season and on days when the settlement is not rented out, volunteers and employees of the Stichting Prehistorische Nederzetting Flevoland (SPNF) regularly move into the village to carry out construction and maintenance work.

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Archaeological Open-Air Museum Swifterkamp

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