Presented by AIM Trimark Investments

Throughout large parts of Europe, wet landscape features such as rivers, brooks, wells and especially bogs had a particular meaning for people in the past. Since ancient times, people were attracted yet frightened by the misty environment of the bogs. They sacrificed their most valuable items in sacred bogs, rituals that are still mysterious to us today. Numerous artefacts discovered over the last two centuries in various parts of North-western Europe bear witness to the special significance of the bogs for the ancestors of many Europeans and North Americans. Pottery, flint tools, axes, jewellery, coins, and human bodies were sacrificed in the bogs to honour pagan gods.

This exhibition will be the most comprehensive ever produced on the rituals of people living in North-western Europe in prehistoric times. It will present the latest research on the mysterious bog people who are little known to most of us.

A joint project of the Drents Museum (Assen, Netherlands), the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum (Hanover, Germany), the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Glenbow Museum (Calgary).


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Virtual exhibition