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Welcome to the Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart, I am Anaïs Recken and we are in the Archeology section of the Museum.

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More precisely, in the Prehistory section.

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Behind me is a showcase with stones that at first glance do not seem particularly exciting, but behind which are many very interesting stories.

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These are hand axes, the first tools created by humans from the Paleolithic. To find out what other objects of the same period can be found in the collection, I will take a look at our new Collections platform.

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To find out about the objects we have from the Paleolithic period, I will browse our Collections platform, looking at the "Collections" section.

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Then I click on the subcategory “Archaeology”. The Paleolithic is part of Prehistory, so I click on "Prehistory". Then, I am presented with objects accessible online.

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To limit the results to a specific time frame, I use the slider and look for the time limitation of the Paleolithic. Now all the objects belonging to the Paleolithic are shown to me.

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For example, I would like to look at the different materials objects were made of.

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In this case, I want to look for objects made of bone. To do this, I click on "Filter by" and select the material “Bone”.

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I am shown an array of objects from the Paleolithic period made of bone.

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Now, for example, I can look at the first object "Incised cannon bone of an even-toed ungulate".

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On the left side is displayed information about the object: its age, the era it comes from, and its inventory number.

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I also have the possibility of taking a closer look at the object, for example by clicking on the picture. These are high-resolution pictures that I can download, depicting the front and back of the object.

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If I want to learn more about archaeology, I can view subject-related publications.

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To do this, I click on "Publications" and then select the first category: “Monographs”. Once again, I use the filter function and I click on “Description” and then "Archaeology".

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If I want to narrow down my search even more, I can also search by author.

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For this example, I will look for a publication by Eugénie Wilhelm. Eugénie Wilhelm kept the inventory for the museum from the early 1940s to the 1970s and subsequently published it.

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I use the filter function and look for “Wilhelm, Eugénie”.

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As a result, the three publications currently available are displayed and I can pick one at random. For this example, I click on "Pierres sculptées et inscriptions de l'époque romaine" and a preview of the book appears.

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I also have the option of using the function "Page preview".

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Scrolling down, I see that the end of the publication contains many images. For example, this stone: a couple’s tombstone. Let’s see if I can find this object in our collection.

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This time, I select the Gallo-Roman Period section, and by scrolling down, I discover the tombstone I looked at earlier.

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If I now want to find out where the object is located, I can. In this case, it is here in the museum on floor -1.

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I would like to invite you to see for yourself during your next visit and wish you a lot of fun browsing.