The Bean Gilsdorf Living History Museum—a life-sized diorama and the world’s smallest living history museum—was a place for visitors to sense the immediacy of the past. Part site-specific installation, part performance, the project ran from June 2013 to July 2017, and included interpretive tours, MP3 conceptual walking tours, K-12 lesson plans, and a gift shop. Inspired equally by Magritte’s The Human Condition, Craphound’s “Remover Installer,” and Borges’ “On Exactitude In Science,” the BGLHM recreated reality “to the extent that the image becomes the standard by which reality is judged.” The museum was free and open to the public by appointment.