Hello,

My question to throw out to the list is concerning open air museums. 

Do you feel that the village setting adds to the visitor experience of 
nostalgia and suspension of time,because it is inherently understood and 
most every visitor can relate to the concept, OR does it relax the visitor 
into a mode of absorbtion, in which they don't differenciate between 
buildings? 

I am working in an open-air museum that has recently gone through a 
significant renovation and has created two distint approaches in the 
village.  There was little changed about the houses, keeping their 
landscaping and way-finding modernized, but still fitting into 
the "neighborhood" feeling. However, the craft areas have been modernized 
to a commercial standard; quaint, almost like a downtown street with 
cobbles and a man-made pond with fountains in it.  There is an immediate 
change of feeling when walking from one to the other and I am wondering if 
it makes the visitor uncomfortable, as it does me?

Cheers, Jan

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