wat is living history museum?

Answer 1

Rather than a display of exibits in cases, living history museums have people looking and acting like people might have done in the past.

I worked several years at this living history museum:
http://www.osv.org/

People there wear period clothes and do period kinds of work, while explaining what they are doing to the visitors. While there, I did pottery making, printing, and farming as we believe they were done in the 1830's in rural New England.

OSV doesn't do role playing, we were just "typical" people. Some museums, like Plymouth Plantation, do role playing, each person has a historical person who they interpret.

Answer 2

A living History Museum is a environment where all the staff and volunteers interact with the visitors in period dress. One the best examples of this the Plimount Plantation in Massachusetts. The intent is to depict in real life action the way people lived at that period of time. They are enacting life in 1620-ish so the speak the English they spoke in 1620. Dress in the exact same manner and behave as people would in 1620.

Answer 3

A living museum is a museum where people that become those from the past. Like at Conner Prairie near Indianapolis. There people "act" out parts of those that lived during a certain time period. They even play an older version of baseball at Conner Prairie too. The way it was originally played before gloves. At Cooperstown, NY, there is the Farmers Museum. There people do orginal works like quilting and metal working, just like they did in the past. It is quite interesting how these people learned these older trades.

Answer 4

Along with Plymouth Plantation there is also the Mayflower, on the waterfront in downtown Plymouth Mass. It is staffed the same way, with character actors portraying both ship's crew and Pilgrims. I believe they represent the situation in November 1620, after the Pilgrims had gone ashore, but the Mayflower was standing by for support. Similarly, Plimoth Plantation is specifically set in 1627, after the colony was well established. There is also an Indian encampment.

Also in Mass. is Old Sturbridge Village, which I believe represents a rural community of the early 1700s, but I don't think the staff represent particular individuals the way Plimoth Plantation does.