Recent history and its untold stories in open-air museums
Recent history and its untold stories in open-air museums

Summary/Abstract: Conference Recent history and its untold stories in open-air museums, Tallinn, 19–21 October 2022. On 19-21 October 2022, the Open Air Museum in Tallinn organised a conference to celebrate its 65th birthday. Open air museum professionals from the region came to discuss the best practices and issues in their work. The two-day conference included representatives from museums in Denmark, Hungary, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The conference revolved around the topics of changes and novel approaches in open air museums, best practices and challenges. All the museums represented in the conference draw on the Skansen tradition; yet, as the conference reports show, there is a new approach to this tradition going on: displaying a village landscape not only visually, well known to all of us, but also using the method of habitat recreation to include diverse groups and time frames, which allows museums to touch upon marginalised topics and get closer to their communities. The conference was also inspired by the opening of the award-winning Kolkhoz house exhibition: a good illustration of the effort to shed light on the untold stories of everyday life.

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