A country makes history. Archeology in North Rhine-Westphalia

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A country makes history. Archeology in North Rhine-Westphalia was one of several places in 1995 and 1996 in North Rhine-Westphalia conducted national exhibition .

The National Exhibition A country makes history was by a team under Hans Gerd Hellenkemper and Heinz Günter Horn conceived and from 18 March to 24 September 1995 in the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne and from November 1995 to March 1996 in the Westphalian Museum of Archeology in Münster performed . After the state exhibition on archeology in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1990, the exhibition was the second exhibition on the subject, followed by 2000 million years of history and 2005 from the beginning . Mainly new finds since 1990 were shown in the exhibition. The range of topics ranged from geological finds to prehistoric , Roman , medieval and modern artifacts.

The exhibition was funded by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry for Urban Development and Transport, and the Rhineland Office for Monument Preservation of the Rhineland Regional Council as well as the museums that presented the exhibition and their associated monument preservation institutions were involved. In addition to the two exhibition venues, lenders included the Westphalian Museum of Natural History , the Xanten Archaeological Park , the Museum of Art and Cultural History Dortmund , the Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold , the cities of Soest , Moers , Neuss , Höxter , Gelsenkirchen , the Museum Burg Linn and the City Museum Düsseldorf , the city Museum Siegburg , the city History Museum Jülich and private lenders.

In an accompanying catalog published by Verlag Philipp von Zabern , individual finds as well as locations and contexts were described. The volume was edited by Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Heinz Günter Horn, Harald Koschik and Bendix Trier . Other authors include Gundolf Precht , Johann-Sebastian Kühlborn , Hans-Joachim Schalles , Bernd Päffgen and Renate Thomas .

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