Living history
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Living history is an activity that incorporates historical tools, activities and dress into an interactive presentation that seeks to give observers and participants a sense of stepping back in time. Although it does not necessarily seek to reenact a specific event in history, living history is similar to, and sometimes incorporates, historical reenactment. Living history is an educational medium used by living history museums, historic sites, heritage interpreters, schools and historical reenactment groups to educate the public or their own members in particular areas of history, such as clothing styles, pastimes and handicrafts, or to simply convey a sense of the everyday life of a certain period in history.
See also
- Historical reenactment
- List of historical reenactment events
- List of historical reenactment groups
- List of open-air and living history museums in the United States
- List of tourist attractions providing reenactment
- Open-air museum
- The 1900 House
- The 1920s Berlin Project
