- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Living history museums
- Creator:
- Stallings, Patricia
- Date of Original:
- 2008-11-14
- Subject:
- Historical museums--Georgia
Museums--Georgia
Heritage tourism--Georgia
Georgia Agrirama - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Stewart County, Lumpkin, 32.05099, -84.79909
United States, Georgia, Tift County, Tifton, 31.45046, -83.5085 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about living history museums in Georgia. Georgia offers a diverse group of living history museums, which are museums that offer a three-dimensional pilgrimage into a particular historical era. Since Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia opened to the public in the 1930s, living history museums have become a popular and effective means to both educate and entertain the public. Buildings, artifacts, demonstrations, and hands-on activities, along with the assistance of costumed interpreters, combine to re-create for visitors the experience of a historical moment. Although all living history museums operate under a similar premise, each museum presents its own theory of how to bring the past to life.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/living-history-museums/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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