The most important factor of culture heritage conservation is the national and public conscience and interest. However, archaeological heritage has a weakness that they are buried on the ground and people are hard to be aware of. This weakness decreases the value of archaeological heritages on a national level and also lead to lack of public education for students. Although public conscience and interest for archaeological heritage plays a pertinent role, the strategies used are not demonstrating efficient results.
Festival, however, which contains popularity and publicness itself can be a very reasonable contents to enhance public interest and awareness of archaeological heritage. Local festivals also gives appropriate prominence to the festivals in that it contains the contents of symbolism, representativeness, historical and educational factors of archaeological heritages.
One of the significant characteristics of festivals in the archaeological sites is hands-on experiences education program. Heritages education in festivals plays the most important role for their conservation.
In Korea, experience education programs in archaeological sites have gone through three-stages of development following public conscience and interest and social change for over 20years. In the future, experience education programs in archaeological sites will be more specialized and expected to change to the direction of globalization.