Living history museum

For the last 6 days we have been in Williamsburg, Virginia so I was able to visit Colonial Williamsburg (original capital of Virginia founded in 1632), Jamestown (first English settlement in the New World in 1607), and Yorktown (where the last major battle of the Revolutionary War occurred and English General Lord Cornwallis surrendered to American General George Washington and French General Comte de Rochambeau). Here is a young woman cooking in a traditional Colonial era farm kitchen.

Here are 12 living history farms found across the United States.

A unique experience that anyone with a curious mind can get behind would be a living museum, also known as a “living history museum.” At one of these establishments, a scene is recreated to stimulate a specific time period. Thus, you find yourself immersed in living history, helping you understand the natural environment and culture of the time period. Here are the 10 most amazing living history museums in the USA to transport yourself back in time.

Visit farm animals, learn blacksmithing, and more in this trip back in time to 1830s New England.

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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world’s largest living history museum in Williamsburg Virginia, the restored 18th-ce...

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The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

Heritage Farm Museum and Village, near Huntington, West Virginia, opens May 4 during its 23rd-annual Spring Festival, an ideal opportunity for families to explore the history of rural life in the Ohio Valley.