Spaces that Tell Stories: Recreating Historical Environments - Paperback

by Donna R. Braden (Author)

This book is a unique and insightful resource for those planning to re-create a historic environment, other museum and history professionals, graduate students, and interested non-professionals. Detailed case studies appear throughout, along with practical tips, checklists, and source lists.

Author Biography

Donna R. Braden, Senior Curator and Curator of Public Life at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, has spent more than four decades in the museum field. Both at The Henry Ford and as an independent consultant, her career has cut across numerous aspects of museum practice, including material culture expertise, collections development and analysis, historical research, interpretive planning, exhibition development, and visitor studies. Her creation of rigorously researched, story-based environments in both museum exhibitions and historic structures stands out as a benchmark of the integration between these disciplines.