Due to rain today, Amy and I decided to hit the Minnesota History Center. You know me and a good history museum. I was excited to see the George Washington exhibit which was great. And then we checked out the underwear exhibit, also awesome, but in a slightly different way. We meandered through the Minnesota 150 and turned a corner. And that's when we found the best exhibit ever.
It was the history of a house. They traced it back to when it was built in the late 1880s. The history of building was then told as you walked through a replica of the building. The first room of the building was set up like the original owners. You pull open drawers to view more info, or discover a story they uncovered while researching. The next few families were represented by clothing with census records or building data printed on it. So freaking cool. Not like anything I'd seen. It had interactive elements like video screens in a table under glass plates so you sat at the table to watch the video of a family as they narrated their stories. You interacted not only with with building and living space itself, but also with the stories of the actual families that lived there.
If you're ever in the area you should totally check out the exhibit. It was amazing. Absolutely awesome how well constructed and thought out this process was.
It was the history of a house. They traced it back to when it was built in the late 1880s. The history of building was then told as you walked through a replica of the building. The first room of the building was set up like the original owners. You pull open drawers to view more info, or discover a story they uncovered while researching. The next few families were represented by clothing with census records or building data printed on it. So freaking cool. Not like anything I'd seen. It had interactive elements like video screens in a table under glass plates so you sat at the table to watch the video of a family as they narrated their stories. You interacted not only with with building and living space itself, but also with the stories of the actual families that lived there.
If you're ever in the area you should totally check out the exhibit. It was amazing. Absolutely awesome how well constructed and thought out this process was.
There's an exhibit like this in the National Museum of American History in DC.
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Same idea here. Whole house from German immigrant builders in the 1890s to the Hmong refugee families of 2005. Each room you walk through is a different era. !960s-1980s was the dining room and kitchen, when it was the Italian families. Super intelligently set out and designed.
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