Jubilee Exhibition: 10,000 Years of Stories Around the Fire

Jubilee Exhibition: 10,000 Years of Stories Around the Fire

10/06/2026

Jubilee Exhibition: 10,000 Years of Stories Around the Fire

20 December 2024 – 4 May 2025

From 20 December 2024 until 4 May 2025, the jubilee exhibition 10,000 Years of Stories Around the Fire was on display at Archeon Museum Park. This exhibition took visitors back to the earliest chapters of Dutch history, where storytelling played a central role as a way of passing on knowledge, beliefs, and traditions.

The exhibition showed how people have gathered around the fire for thousands of years to share myths, legends, and personal stories. From hunter-gatherers and the first farmers to Romans, Vikings, and medieval townspeople: each period contributed its own stories and symbolism to the whole.

Using archaeological finds from the region, the exhibition revealed how these stories are connected to real objects from the past. Visitors gained insight not only into the daily lives of earlier societies, but also into the meaning they attached to rituals, art, and beliefs.

An important part of the exhibition was experiencing stories as they were originally intended: told by people, in an atmosphere of firelight and imagination. This created an intimate experience in which history was not only displayed but also felt.

10,000 Years of Stories Around the Fire was part of the ONDER ONS project, in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and VriendenLoterij.

This jubilee exhibition took place from 20 December 2024 until 4 May 2025.

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