Open air museums
Introduction
An open-air museum, also called open-air museum, is a museum whose exhibitions take place in an open area, that is, outside the confines of a building,[1] on surfaces of different dimensions, from patios and plots to extensive land such as fields or entire towns (historic or designed for this purpose).
Types of open-air museums
Some open-air museums are developed around existing elements, such as historical buildings or archaeological sites, therefore having a fixed position and their main exhibition elements being unalterable and removable.[2].
Other types of open-air museums are those that exhibit large objects, such as vehicles, machinery, ships, sections of railways, tunnels and the like, or large models. In turn, a classical museum may have, beyond its exhibitions in rooms and galleries, also one or more outdoor exhibitions, normally for exhibiting pieces that due to their size or nature require larger space. Some open-air museums have multiple locations.
Many of these museums are "living museums"), and others offer interactive guided tours and recreations. Open-air museums include and display:[2].
• - collections of large objects.
• - buildings and facilities,.
• - closed museum courtyards.
• - gardening exhibitions,.
• - living museums and recreations,.
• - folk museums,.
• - theme parks,[3].
• - miniature populations.
• - sets of murals.
• - large planetariums.
• - archaeological sites.
• - cemeteries.[4].
Some open-air museums can be an integral part of a street, a neighborhood or a municipality, not having any feature that physically separates them from the rest of the population.[5] The white city of Tel Aviv, for example, is a museum space that brings together dozens of Bauhaus-style buildings spread throughout the city. The set of unfinished social housing in the Community of Madrid forms an open-air museum that focuses on the architecture of this type of buildings of the century.[6] There are those who consider open-air museums to emblematic streets, parks and avenues full of historical monuments and cultural reference points, as is the case of La Rambla in Barcelona.[7] The set of urban art murals made in Puerto Rico in the mid-2010s is also considered a museum by artists and experts. outdoors.[8].