Living museum

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A living museum is a type of museum that recreates to the fullest extent conditions of a culture, natural 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.

Contents

1 List of cultural living museums
2 List of ecological and environmental living museums
3 List of historical living museums

4 List of living transportation museums
5 See also

List of cultural living museums

Polynesian Cultural Center, Lā'ie, Hawai'i, United States

List of ecological and environmental living museums

Some ecological living museums are zoos

California Living Museum, Bakersfield, California, United States
Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, Virginia, United States
Nonsuch Island Living Museum, Bermuda

List of historical living museums

Interpreters dress in period costume and conduct period crafts and everyday work.

Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto, Ontario
Fort Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta
Fortress Louisbourg, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Midland, Ontario
Upper Canada Village, Morrisburg, Ontario
Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Alberta

Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
Blists Hill Victorian Town, Telford, Shropshire, England

Claude Moore Colonial Farm, McLean, Virginia
Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia
Conner Prairie, Fishers, Indiana
Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hale Farm & Village, Bath, Ohio
Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
Lincoln's New Salem, Menard County, Illinois
Ohio Village, Columbus, Ohio
Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Old Bethpage, New York
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Oliver Miller Homestead, South Park Township, Pennsylvania
Pioneer Living History Village, Phoenix, Arizona
Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Mercer County, Kentucky
Jerusalem Mill, Kingsville, Maryland
National Colonial Farm, Accokeek, Maryland

List of living transportation museums

Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania (heritage railway)
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, New York (aviation museum)
Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire, England (aviation museum)