Living History : Effective Costumed Interpretation and Enactment at Museums and Historic Sites 9781442263826, 9781442263802

Interpreting Immigration at Museums and Historic Sites 9781442263253, 9781442263246

Interpreting Immigration at Museums and Historic Sites draws from the collective learning of the forty museums and histo

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Interpreting Food at Museums and Historic Sites 9781442257221, 9781442257207

Food is such a friendly topic that it’s often thought of as a “hook” for engaging visitors – a familiar way into other t

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Doing Women’s History in Public: A Handbook for Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites 9781442264168, 9781442264175, 9781442264182

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Interpreting American Military History at Museums and Historic Sites 9781442239753, 9781442239746

Across the country, museums and historic sites welcome visitors into a world long gone but fundamental to America today.

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Interpreting Anniversaries and Milestones at Museums and Historic Sites 9781442264489, 9781442264465

Interpreting Anniversaries and Milestones at Museums and Historic Sites is an invaluable resource for a wide range of cu

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Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites 2020010318, 2020010319, 9781138888647, 9781138888654, 9781315713274

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Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada 9780773551770

Imagining how prominent national historic sites might confront critical issues in environmental history. Imagining how

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Effective Exhibit Interpretation and Design 9780759121126, 9780759121119

As the American Alliance of Museums’ (AAM) Standing Professional Committees Council tells us “exhibitions are the public

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Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums 9780773584129

How Victorian house museums anchor and transmit mythic interpretations of the past.

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Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums 9780759119413, 9780759112179

Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums is a primer on the preventive care practices that these unique sites

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