This summer, the Emsland Archaeology Museum is showing the Emsländische Landschaft's special exhibition on Dr. Elisabeth Schlicht - on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Emsland Plan. But what does the Emsland Plan have to do with archaeology? The rapid infrastructural and agricultural development of the 1950s presented the first female district archaeologist [...]

“Elisabeth Schlicht”, District archaeologist and finissage of the exhibition Dr. Elisabeth Schlicht - the first female district archaeologist in Emsland. At a time of great change and rapid infrastructural development, she was committed to the protection of many endangered archaeological monuments in Emsland. With few resources and in a strongly male-dominated (specialist) world, she campaigned [...]