3,000 years ago – The first woman to live in Geesthacht

What did possibly the first woman in Geesthacht look like? This is presumably the question archaeologist Karl Kersten asked himself over 80 years ago when he made a sensational discovery: a Bronze Age burial site, 3,000 years old, containing a woman and child, near Geesthacht. In 2016, the Museum Geesthacht responded with a temporary exhibition which exhibition design guides visitors through an exciting reconstruction of her life situation using items such as traditional utensils, clothing, hairstyle, and hair ornaments, as well as tactile and graphic presentations, leading to a possible portrait of this woman. A painstakingly piece-by-piece completion of the puzzle and solving of the riddle.

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