List of tourist attractions providing reenactment
The following is a list of tourist attractions, by country, that regularly use "living history" or historical reenactments either with professional actors or amateur groups.
Most castles which open to the public use reenactment in some form or another, even if not noted on this list. Similarly, anything labeled a Renaissance fair will use reenactment, though the level of authenticity may vary.
Australia
Canada
- Fort Edmonton Park in Edmonton, Alberta
- Fort Henry National Historic Site in Kingston, Ontario
- Fort St. James National Historic Site in Fort St. James, British Columbia
- Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay, Ontario
- Heritage Park Historical Village in Calgary, Alberta
- L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland
- Lower Fort Garry in Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Norstead in Newfoundland
- Quebec City, Quebec (Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France)
- Tunnels of Moose Jaw in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
- Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village near Lamont, Alberta
- Upper Canada Village near Morrisburg, Ontario
Denmark
Reenactment jousting at The Middle Ages Center
- The Old Town, Aarhus
- Bork Viking harbour, Ringkøbing
- The Middle Ages Center Falster
Germany
- Satzvey Castle
Japan
Sweden
United Kingdom
- Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire, England
- Cosmeston Medieval Village, Wales
- Many English Heritage sites
- Festival of History, the largest historical festival in Europe
- Hampton Court
- Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England
- Llancaiach Fawr, Wales
- Kentwell Hall
- Little Woodham, Hampshire, England
- Murton Park / Yorkshire Museum of Farming in Murton, York, England
- Many National Trust sites
United States
View of the Center Village section of Old Sturbridge Village
- Ardenwood Historic Farm in Fremont, California
- Battle of the Little Bighorn reenactment, Big Horn County, Montana
- Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation [1] in Ridley Creek State Park, Media, Pennsylvania
- Colonial Spanish Quarter Living History Museum, St. Augustine, Florida
- Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
- Conner Prairie in Fishers, Indiana
- Ethan Allen Homestead Museum in Burlington, VT
- Fort at Number 4, New Hampshire
- Fort Meigs, Perrysburg, Ohio
- Fort Snelling, Minnesota
- Fort Tejon, California
- Fort Ticonderoga, New York
- Frazier History Museum, Kentucky
- Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia in Staunton, Virginia
- Grand Ledge, Michigan
- Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan
- Historic Cold Spring Village in Cape May, New Jersey
- Historic Richmond Town, New York
- Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California
- Little Bighorn National Monument-Reenactment is known as Custer's Last Stand Reenactment in Crow Agency Montana.
- Living History Farms, Urbandale, Iowa
- Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts
- Missouri Town 1855, Blue Springs, Missouri
- Mystic Seaport, Connecticut
- Old Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts
- Old World Wisconsin, Wisconsin Ethnic Heritage, Working Farms, 600-acre (2.4 km2) site in Eagle, Wisconsin
- Pilgrim's Progress in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Riley's Farm, Oak Glen, California
- The Spanish Military Hospital Museum, Saint Augustine, Florida
- Strawbery Banke, New Hampshire
- Westville, Georgia
See also
- List of open-air and living history museums in the United States
- List of historical reenactment events
- List of Renaissance fairs
- Open-air museum
- List of tourist attractions worldwide
References
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