In the early 1960s, a motorway was constructed near Skopje in the Municipality of Gazi Baba. Here, the most significant Neolithic site was discovered of the Skopje valley. Main excavations were executed by the Museum of Macedonia at the end of the 1970s and in the 1980s with beautiful pottery and other Neolithic artefacts coming to light.

Kanzach is a small village north of the Federsee in Southern Germany, counting about 500 inhabitants. In the years 2000-2004, a LEADER+ EU project was taking place here, resulting in a tourist attraction at the country side: a reconstruction of a small stronghold of the lower nobility as it could have been in the 14th century. The village’s own original “Bachritterburg” has not been excavated, therefore, main sources came from the region. It has cost about 2 million Euro to build the wooden tower and adjacent buildings, but the museum has attracted many more visitors than planned.

The workgroup for archaeology of the “Heimatverein” association in Greven initiated the plan for the start of a museum. The municipality paid for the land and the construction of the museum buildings, the local archaeology department provided the archaeological backgrounds and the “Heimatverein” runs the museum with volunteers only, the work group “Sachsenhof”. The longhouse is built after archaeological finds at Münster Gitrup.

In the area what now is Berlin, defensive settlements were inhabited in the 12th century. The region was sometimes inhabited by Slavonic people, sometimes by Germanic – enough debate is still continuing about this.