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Living history is an educational medium used by living history museums, historic sites, heritage interpreters, schools and historical reenactment groups to educate the public or their own members in particular areas of history, such as clothing styles, pastimes and handicrafts, or to simply convey a sense of the everyday life of a certain ...
A living museum, also known as a living history museum, is a type of museum which recreates historical settings to simulate a past time period, providing visitors with an experiential interpretation of history. [1]
Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums; Revista Digital Nueva Museologia Archived 2016-04-22 at the Wayback Machine Latin American Theory; European Open-air Museums Archived 2016-11-01 at the Wayback Machine An extensive list of Open-air museums in Europe. America's Outdoor History Museums
The North American open-air museum, more commonly called a living-history museum, had a different, slightly later origin than the European, and the visitor experience is different. The first was Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan (1928), where Ford intended his collection to be "a pocket edition of America".
A living history reenactment of Native American life in East Germany, 1970. Native Americans were romanticized in Germany, making them popular reenactment subjects. The term "living history" describes the performance of bringing history to life for the general public in a manner that in most cases is not following a planned script.
Cultural property includes the physical, or "tangible" cultural heritage, such as artworks. These are generally split into two groups of movable and immovable heritage. Immovable heritage includes buildings (which themselves may include installed art such as organs, stained glass windows, and frescos), large industrial installations, residential projects, or other historic places and monum
He went on to put together a decorated amateur career, becoming the youngest co-medalist in U.S. Amateur history at 16 -- breaking a 103-year-old record held by Bobby Jones.
An Evergreen Protective Association volunteer recording an oral history at Greater Rosemont History Day. Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.