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Approaches to the Documentation of Houses in Open-Air Museums

Houses in open-air museums represent an attempt by researchers and by committed citizens to make the past tangible and experienceable, usually with the help of various didactic concepts for museums. The houses are neither mere backdrops nor mere stages of a historical theatre in open-air museums, but rather, in the sense of experimental archaeology, research objects themselves, on which research questions can be tested and developed.