The Eindhoven Museum was founded in 1982 by a group of teachers from the local teachers academy led by Anneke Boonstra; it was then known as the "prehistoric village". The first ten years were spent slowly and painstakingly building an Iron Age village with help of many volunteers and local unemployed people. In 1995 the museum drew national and international attention with a life experiment. Officially called "For 2 Moons", it involved a small group (including the director Anneke Boonstra) withdrawing from civilization for two months to live life as it was in the Iron Age. Towards the end of the 1990s the museum began receiving European subsidies, allowing it to double in size and add a whole new theme on the new grounds: the Middle Ages. The museum is one of the founding members of EXARC, the international
ICOM affiliated association of
archaeological open-air museums and
experimental archaeology. From 2006 to 2009 the museum was project lead of a European project of 8 archaeological open-air museums,
liveARCH. This project was co-authored by
Roeland Paardekooper. Luc Eekhout became director of the museum in September 2010. ==References==