Book Review: Spaces that tell stories: Recreating Historical Environments by Donna R. Braden

Spaces that tell stories: Recreating historical Environments is a textbook and a how-to manual for those setting up a new exhibition or living history site, or for those evaluating existing interpretation on a site. Everybody who works in museum education, exhibition and living history knows how fan...

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Main Author: Thit Birk Petersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EXARC 2021-02-01
Series:EXARC Journal
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Online Access:https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10548
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Summary:Spaces that tell stories: Recreating historical Environments is a textbook and a how-to manual for those setting up a new exhibition or living history site, or for those evaluating existing interpretation on a site. Everybody who works in museum education, exhibition and living history knows how fantastic it is when an historical environment engages a visitor in the topic. We also know how difficult it can be to achieve this. The road to a finished historical space is long and we often skip a step or two, because we “know” what works and how things would have looked.
ISSN:2212-8956