Where Two Worlds Meet - Living History and Heritage Locations

The Netherlands have an abundance of heritage locations: museums, monuments, windmills. A favorite pastime of many senior citizens is to take responsibility for this heritage as volunteer guides, amateur historians, and so on. Their traditional contribution to the Dutch heritage sector is tremendous...

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Main Author: Luc Eekhout
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Language:English
Published: EXARC 2024-02-01
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Online Access:https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10728
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description The Netherlands have an abundance of heritage locations: museums, monuments, windmills. A favorite pastime of many senior citizens is to take responsibility for this heritage as volunteer guides, amateur historians, and so on. Their traditional contribution to the Dutch heritage sector is tremendous. But at the same time there is a trend of aging in this kind of volunteering. The provincial ‘Heritage Houses’ – a professional platform for archives, museums, windmills etc. – are alarmed at the potential threat of a shortage of volunteers.
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Where Two Worlds Meet - Living History and Heritage Locations
EXARC Journal
education
newest era
the netherlands
museum
living history
title Where Two Worlds Meet - Living History and Heritage Locations
title_full Where Two Worlds Meet - Living History and Heritage Locations
title_fullStr Where Two Worlds Meet - Living History and Heritage Locations
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newest era
the netherlands
museum
living history
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