Hitzacker Archaeological Centre, Archaeological museum and open-air site in Hitzacker, Germany.

The Hitzacker Archaeological Centre features three reconstructed Bronze Age houses that combine living spaces and livestock areas under traditional thatched roofs. The site also includes a museum with tools and pottery from local excavations as well as a nature trail and herb garden.

Excavations beside Lake Hitzacker in 1969 uncovered ceramic fragments and building foundations that revealed Bronze Age settlements in the area. The center opened in 1990 to make these findings available to visitors through reconstructions and museum collections.

The reconstructed houses show how families prepared food, made clothing, and stored goods in a single shared space during Bronze Age times. The herb garden and tools on display reveal what crops and plants people used for eating and healing.

The open-air museum covers 15,000 m² with 40 archaeological stations spread across the grounds, so allow time to walk between the longhouses, the burial hut and the pit-house. The site is recognised by the Samtgemeinde Elbtalaue for civil wedding ceremonies, which the museum accompanies with a supporting programme.

One longhouse was deliberately left as a ruin after a fire in 2008. Archaeologists use it to study which traces survive in the ground as nature gradually destroys the remains, mirroring what they find at real excavation sites.