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Museums are one of the many sites in which people engage with history. Institutionally, they are as diverse as are their audiences, and they employ a range of historical practices. One of these is museum theatre, which has been used increasingly to present history to children to allow them to understand not just content but a subject’s concepts, methods and structures. This constructivist model has arisen in the context of a questioning of the traditional historical canon. Museum theatre, however, has not been without its critics.
a commitment to the idea of public history is a commitment to a concern with audience and an awareness of the relationship between audience, historical practice and institutional context.1
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Tzibazi, V. (2009). Museum Theatre: Children’s Reading of ‘First Person Interpretation’ in Museums. In: Ashton, P., Kean, H. (eds) People and their Pasts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_10
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