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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• living history
• newest era
• usa
• book
• review