ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses children's learning about industrial heritage in a small, post-industrialized town in South-East Norway. By referring to a particular case, this text shows how local heritage may give local school children a sensory experience of the past. Furthermore, it explores how local World Heritage may serve as a learning or educational resource in classroom education and during excursions. Thus, local heritage ideology may be seen as providing a specific narrative that in turn instructs a particular social choreography in which the local children may be seen as both experiencing and performing the past. The desired end result, as desired by local and regional government, is that future generations will care for, protect, preserve, and conserve the local World Heritage.
