Building in Open-Air Museums (Ulysse Douillon & Nathan Schneider)
Channel: EXARC
Date: 2020-03-26

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Abstract: Experiments conducted by open-air museums produce a substantial amount of knowledge. Why are these data seldom shared between the numerous French entities involved? We can witness the conditions that are detrimental to such sharing. To cite only the main ones: the lack of an established network able to create links between the diverse actors, the lack of will to thoroughly study, conserve and share these data, the lack of skills within some open-air museums, especially when private, or the impracticality of allocating time to a task that is not directly profitable or useful to an open-air museum’s operations. Randa Ardesca faces this last situation. In order to solve this issue, it seems important to us to list analysis criteria which are synthetic, accessible and useful to all, and adaptable to different skill levels. With this aim, we will suggest a template based upon an already existing building from the open-air museum. Once completed, the diffusion of this template could offer an opportunity for communication between EXARC and the French open-air museums, hopefully providing a better incentive for them to join an international network.
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