PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
by Tim Betz (Author)
This book shows the importance of the Maker Movement for museums and historic sites, and presents a roadmap to building, planning, researching, and using a makerspace alongside more traditional museum programming. It calls for a revitalization of living history, which can be done through makerspaces and the maker movement.
Author Biography
Tim Betz is a museum professional, historian, and artist. He is executive director of the Morgan Log House, a historical society in Lansdale, PA. He is an instructor of art history at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and is completing his PhD in history at Lehigh University, in Bethlehem PA.
He is particularly interested in historic processes and historic craft, which he uses as a tool for understanding the past.
