Time Travels is an educational method where the participants research and take part in the life of another historical time period in order to learn about themselves and their society. Historic Environment Education uses local historic sites and nearby history as an active way of learning and inspiring today’s people and communities about the past.

Methods

• Focus is on the local history and the local environment.
• The students do the research according to their questions and interest.
• A museum or university helps out with source-material and archives.
• The local history is compared with the national and international history.
• t’s about man and their lives. Compare now and then.
• Time is "frozen" to a certain year at a special site.
• All senses are used in a Time Travel or a Role-play.

Why Time Travels?

• It gives you a historical perspective
• It gives knowledge and understanding
• It helps in building local identity
• It’s fun

Kalmar Country Museum in Sweden which is our partner in the scope of Tusenet, project has been supporting schools in Time Travels and Historical Environment Education since the 1980s. The museum does research about historical sites close to the schools and train the teachers. The education in school is focused on the chosen historical site and time period. The students explore the archives and other sources. Then the students, led by museum staff and teachers, make a time travel to a chosen year at the historic site they have studied in school. They dress up in historical costumes and for one day become the people who once lived at the site. Time travels give a deep knowledge and understanding of past in a comparison with society of today. It’s also a way of looking at the past from the bottom to the top, from servants, workers and farmhands to nobles and masters at the top.

Time Travels have been implemented by Kalmar Country Museum in variety countries as Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Iceland, England, Italy, USA Minnesota and New Mexico, Kenya, South Africa and Sweden. It is thought that Time Travel will be implemented in Bayraklı Smryna Mound, Bornova Yeşilova Mound, Manisa Spil Mountain this year in April.