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At a time when audiences are craving immersive, meaningful experiences, Donna Braden is ready to help history museums of all sizes share history in ways that meet those audience needs. This audience-focused approach permeates the book, providing expert and explicit guidance on how to develop your immersive experiences with meaning and integrity. -- Susie Wilkening, Principal at Wilkening Consulting This engaging guide by a veteran curator and exhibit developer methodically takes the reader step-by-step through the process of creating immersive historical spaces, replete with several successful, concrete examples from some of America's most innovative museums. -- Tom Kelleher, Historian, and Curator of Mechanical Arts This book reminds us that history doesn't exist outside of the present, that a primary act of thinking historically is to recreate the past in the imagination. In practical, systematic examples and techniques grounded in learning theory, Braden shows how our museums and historic sites can stimulate high levels of engagement and understanding through rich, immersive experiences. -- Daniel Spock, independent museum consultant

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Donna R. Braden, Senior Curator and Curator of Public Life at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, has spent more than four decades in the museum field. Both at The Henry Ford and as an independent consultant, her career has cut across numerous aspects of museum practice, including material culture expertise, collections development and analysis, historical research, interpretive planning, exhibition development, and visitor studies. Her creation of rigorously researched, story-based environments in both museum exhibitions and historic structures stands out as a benchmark of the integration between these disciplines.

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