In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970124091154.12206E-
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>I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon in Arts Management.
>I have been participating in this listserv for a few weeks and hope that
>some of you can help me, too.
>
>I am trying to locate organizations that use performance to illustrate
>historical people and events.  I am reluctant to use the phrase "living
>history" because I do not want to limit my search to military
>battle reenactment activities. So far I have three organizations identified:
>(2) BLISTS HILL OPEN AIR MUSEUM, which is part of the Welsh National
>Gallery and Museum system.  Their website suggests celebration and
>reenactment type activities which illustrate the traditional Welsh life,
>utilizing historic buildings as the setting.
Well, you have four identified, because Blists Hill is far from being
part of the National Museum of Wales ... the museum you describe is St.
Fagans.  Blists Hill is part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum (other sites
at Ironbridge also use first-person interpretation.  Others include the
Black Country Museum and Beamish (the North of England Open Air Museum).

In addition there are a great number of voluntary, semi-professional and
professional groups which are itenerant, working in museums and on
sites.  English Heritage has the widest variety of these.

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Pat Reynolds
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Keeper of Social History, Buckinghamshire County Museum
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