ABSTRACT
During the 1970s and 1980s there was a remarkable expansion in sites which purported to be representations of the past. This might be termed the ‘heritage boom’. For our purposes the ‘heritage boom’ includes openair museums, heritage centres which often employed new technologies to produce multi-media experiences, and certain established museums which decided to adopt some of the representational techniques developed by heritage attractions. This chapter will consider some examples of such representations, as well as their origins.
