The forged sky - the wide world in the heart of Europe 3600 years ago

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Exhibition poster at the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle
The Nebra Sky Disc
The Trundholm Sun Chariot

The forged sky - the wide world in the heart of Europe 3600 years ago was the fifth Saxony-Anhalt state exhibition . Between 2004 and 2006 she could be seen in Halle , Copenhagen and Mannheim .

Theme and concept

In the center were the Nebra Sky Disc and the Trundholm Sun Chariot . Inspired by the representation on the sky disc, the center of the exhibition was designed as a boat in the night sky, on which both the sky disc and the sun chariot were presented. Around 1,600 other finds from Germany, Denmark , France , Greece , Great Britain , Ireland , Italy , Lebanon , the Netherlands , Austria , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , the Czech Republic and Hungary were shown in the exhibition. With a focus on the Aunjetitz culture , from which the Nebra sky disc comes from, the exhibition was devoted to questions of European exchange and trade in the early Bronze Age, myths and rituals, Bronze Age metallurgy and archaeoastronomy . Part of the exhibition dealt with the history of the discovery of the sky disc (see Nebra sky disc # find history ) and its restoration and archaeometric investigation.

Organization and scientific support

The exhibition is the result of a cooperation between the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle and the Danish National Museum . Regine Maraszek and Gabriele Zipf designed the exhibition under the scientific direction of the state archaeologist of Saxony-Anhalt, Harald Meller .

The scientific advisory board consisted of François Bertemes , Florian Innerhofer, Flemming Kaul, Christoph Sommerfeld and Bernd Zich. The exhibition was under the patronage of the then Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Wolfgang Böhmer .

The exhibition was from October 15, 2004 to April 24, 2005 in Halle , from July 1 to October 22, 2005 in Copenhagen and from March 4 to July 9, 2006 in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum in Mannheim see. In a slightly modified form, it was shown from November 9, 2005 to February 5, 2006 in the Natural History Museum Vienna and from September 29, 2006 to February 25, 2007 in the Basel Historical Museum .

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