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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thit Birk Petersen
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: EXARC 2021
Subjects:
usa
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/768c50cb77cc4ef59b8d4be58df62ff7
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
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.