This open air museum was opened in 1944 thanks to the vision of its founder, Dr Isabel Frances Grant.
Fruit of the vision of the founder, the museum was opened in 1944.
Blists Hill Victorian Town is a full scale and functioning replica of life as it was a hundred years ago.
Blists Hill is a complete Victorian age town, recreated in every detail and activity.
The Sosto Open Air Museum hosts original buildings which were selected, demolished and rebuilt to be protected and brought to life again.
The Sosto ethnographic open air museum displays the typical buildings and activities of XIX century Eastern Hungarian village life.
I have been involved in reproduction of ancient textiles since childhood. I learned to spin on my great-grandmother's spinning wheel over 40 years ago, and have always been fascinated by pre-industrial textiles.
The point of my interest is Northeast Greenlandic archaeology: Independence, Saqqaq (a settlement in Western Greenland), Dorset culture (a Paleo-Inuit culture, lasting from 500 BC to between 1000 and 1500 AD).
For many years, the public has become increasingly aware of historical and archaeological topics, a phenomenon to which large-scale and well-attended exhibitions, so-called ‘medievalmarkets’, the continual success of historical TV-documentaries, and a booming market in specialized books and magazines may attest. Living history formats on television or historical docu-soaps also attract millions of viewers (see, for example, Schwarzwaldhaus 1902, SWR 2002; Steinzeit– DasExperiment, SWR 2007).
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the Netherlands
Phone: +(31) 6 40263273
Website: EXARC.net
Email: info@exarc.net
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