A living museum is a type of museum that recreates to the fullest extent conditions of a culture, natural environment or historical period. The objective is total immersion, designing exhibits so that visitors can experience the specific culture, environment or historical period using all the physical senses: sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.

List of cultural living museums

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• Polynesian Cultural Center, Lā'ie, Hawai'i, United States

List of ecological and environmental living museums

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Some ecological living museums are zoos

• California Living Museum, Bakersfield, California, United States
• Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, Virginia, United States
• Nonsuch Island Living Museum, Bermuda

List of historical living museums

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Interpreters dress in period costume and conduct period crafts and everyday work.

Canada

• Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto, Ontario
• Fort Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta
• Fortress Louisbourg, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
• Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Midland, Ontario
• Upper Canada Village, Morrisburg, Ontario
• Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Alberta

United Kingdom

• Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
• Blists Hill Victorian Town, Telford, Shropshire, England

United States

• Claude Moore Colonial Farm, McLean, Virginia
• Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Conner Prairie, Fishers, Indiana
• Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Hale Farm & Village, Bath, Ohio
• Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
• Lincoln's New Salem, Menard County, Illinois
• Ohio Village, Columbus, Ohio
• Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Old Bethpage, New York
• Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
• Oliver Miller Homestead, South Park Township, Pennsylvania
• Pioneer Living History Village, Phoenix, Arizona
• Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Mercer County, Kentucky
• Jerusalem Mill, Kingsville, Maryland
• National Colonial Farm, Accokeek, Maryland

List of living transportation museums

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• Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania (heritage railway)
• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, New York (aviation museum)
• Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire, England (aviation museum)

See also

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• Historical reenactment

Living museums | Lists of museums