Abstract
Recognition of the past as a foreign country now colours our view of antiquity from primeval times down to yesterday. We have partly domesticated that past, where they do things differently, and brought it into the present as a marketable commodity.David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. xxv.Most visitors to open-air museums understand them as places to which buildings having some particular significance have been translocated. However, the term ‘open-air museum’ applies to sites which may also include original buildings preserved in situ; or replicas of buildings which remain in use on, or have disappeared from, their original sites; or ‘hypothetical’ structures created for museum purposes to illustrate well authenticated building traditions; or various combinations of these.
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