Living museums

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Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum is an open air museum located in the town of Stanley, County Durham, England. Beamish tries to show what life was like in a typical northern town in the early 20th century — much of the restoration and interpretation is specific to 1913. Aside from the main town however there is also the manor house and the railway which are based on 1825. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beamish Museum"

The Black Country Living Museum is located in Dudley in the West Midlands in England. The museum occupies a 26 acre (105,000 m²) urban heritage park in the shadow of Dudley Castle in the centre of the Black Country conurbation. It was first opened in 1976 and since then more and more exhibits have been added to it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Black Country Living Museum"

Black Creek Pioneer Village is an historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks the Black Creek (Toronto). ...more on Wikipedia about "Black Creek Pioneer Village"

Blists Hill is an industrial open air museum, depicting life as it may have been in Shropshire, England, during the time of the industrial revolution. It is one museum of ten operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blists Hill"

The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal is a converted railroad terminal that houses museums, theaters, and a library. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal"

Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg consists of many of the buildings that formed the original colonial capital of Williamsburg in James City County from 1699 to 1780. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colonial Williamsburg"

Conner Prairie is a living history museum in Fishers, Indiana that preserves the historic Conner farm and recreates part of life in Indiana in the 19th century on the White River. ...more on Wikipedia about "Conner Prairie"

Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street is a living museum in Spitalfields, London, England that was set up by Dennis Severs. The house tells the story of the Jarvis family, Huguenot silk weavers, from 1725 to 1919. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dennis Severs' House, 18 Folgate Street"

Fort Snelling is a former military fortification located at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Lt. Zebulon Pike purchased 100,000 acres (400 km²) of land in the area in 1805, though it was more than a decade before significant settlement took place. The original installation was constructed between 1820 and 1825 as Fort St. Anthony. It received its current name upon its completion in honor of Colonel Josiah Snelling, who commanded the regiment that built it, and oversaw its construction. Snelling was considered to be a reasonable commander—when he was sober. He was susceptible to becoming angry when drunk, and he left the installation in 1827 after a controversy erupted. He died a year later. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fort Snelling, Minnesota"

Fort York is an historic site of military fortifications and related buildings on the west side of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The fort was built by the British Army and Canadian militia troops in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to defend the settlement and the new capital of the Upper Canada region from the threat of a military attack, principally from the newly independent United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fort York"

The Hale Farm & Village is a historical community in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio. It has a variety of historical buildings, many brought in from elsewhere. The timeframe reenacted by the guides at Hale Farm is 1848, but it is changing to 1861. It is considered to be within the boundaries of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park although it belongs to the Western Reserve Historical Society and is run by them as a compatible use site. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hale Farm & Village"

Historic Richmond Town is an open-air live museum located in the Richmondtown neighborhood in Staten Island, New York. It is located near the geographical center of the island, at the junction of Richmond Road and Arthur Kill Avenue. ...more on Wikipedia about "Historic Richmond Town"

Kirkjubøargarður ( Faroese for Yard of Kirkjubøur, also known as King's farm) is one of the oldest still inhabited wooden houses of the world. The farm itself has always been the largest of the Faroe Islands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kirkjubøargarður"

A living museum is a type of museum that recreates to the fullest extent conditions of a various culture, environment or historical period. The objective is total immersion, designing exhibits so that visitors can experience the specific culture, environment or historical period using all the physical senses: sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. Interpreters dress in period costume and conduct period crafts and everyday work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Living museum"

Milestones Museum is a museum located in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK. It is made-up of a network of streets that have been recreated on those found in Victorian and 1930s Hampshire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Milestones Museum"

The Museum of Welsh Life ( Welsh: Amgueddfa Werin Cymru) is an open-air museum chronicling the lifestyle, culture and architecture of the Welsh people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of Welsh Life"

Mystic Seaport is a maritime museum situated along the banks of the Mystic River in Mystic, Connecticut. It is notable both for its collection of sailing ships and boats, and for the re-creation of an entire 19th century seaport, consisting of over 60 original buildings, most of them rare commercial structures, moved to the 37 acre (150,000 m²) site and meticulously restored. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mystic Seaport"

New Fort York was built to replace Toronto's original Fort York at the mouth of Garrison Creek as the primary military base for the settlement. A series of stone buildings were constructed in what is now the Canadian National Exhibition grounds. Today only one of the original buildings survives. The Stanley Barracks was once home to the Marine Museum, which has since been moved to Harbourfront. ...more on Wikipedia about "New Fort York"

New Salem is the name of a former village in Menard County, Illinois in the United States. It was located northwest of Springfield approximately 3 mi (5 km) south of Petersburg. It was the location of the 1831 homestead of future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. It is not the same as the present village of New Salem, Illinois in Pike County. ...more on Wikipedia about "New Salem (Menard County), Illinois"

Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) is a living museum located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts which re-creates life in rural New England during the 1830s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Old Sturbridge Village"

Pioneer Village is located inside of the Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah. It was founded in 1938 by Horace and Ethel Sorensen. Meant to be a “living museum,” Pioneer Village is intended to make the history of Utah come alive. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pioneer Village (Utah)"

Pleasant Hill, Kentucky,, USA, is the site of a Shaker religious community that flourished from 1805 to 1910. Following a preservationist effort that began in 1961, the site, now a National Historic Landmark, has become a popular tourist destination. Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, or Shakertown, as it is known by residents of the area, is located 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Lexington, in Kentucky's Bluegrass region. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pleasant Hill, Kentucky"

Plimoth Plantation is a living museum that re-creates the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in Massachusetts by the Pilgrims in 1620. ...more on Wikipedia about "Plimoth Plantation"

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons ( French: Sainte-Marie-au-pays-des-Hurons) was a 17th century French Jesuit mission in Wendake, the land of the Huron (Wendat) nation, located near modern Midland, Ontario. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sainte-Marie among the Hurons"

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