International Learning Partnership: Living History and Adult Education in the Museum

Many archaeological open-air museums and museums with indoor reconstructions choose to interpret history using the method of ‘living history’, or re-enactments. If one only counts the German references, there is wide variety of terms used by museums when they talk of ‘living history’. The phrase ‘li...

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Main Author: Susanne Wiermann
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Language:English
Published: EXARC 2012-05-01
Series:EXARC Journal
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Online Access:https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10062
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description Many archaeological open-air museums and museums with indoor reconstructions choose to interpret history using the method of ‘living history’, or re-enactments. If one only counts the German references, there is wide variety of terms used by museums when they talk of ‘living history’. The phrase ‘living history’ is often used synonymously with ‘lived history’, ‘played history’, ‘museum theatre’, ‘history theatre’, ‘staged-managed history’, et cetera.
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title International Learning Partnership: Living History and Adult Education in the Museum
title_full International Learning Partnership: Living History and Adult Education in the Museum
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title_full_unstemmed International Learning Partnership: Living History and Adult Education in the Museum
title_short International Learning Partnership: Living History and Adult Education in the Museum
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early middle ages
late middle ages
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