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116 TEHIC Towards a European Heritage Interpretation Curriculum 7.1.1. Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding 3. Heritage values provoke thinking or identity storytelling or media The Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding is the story of a disappearing local identity (small, family-owned shipyards) which is saved and supported by heritage actions such as the opening of the Museum and through heritage interpretation. It has a strong in- ter-sectoral perspective, since museum and interpretation promote shipbuilders, who still have orders for new boats: local people and visitors make new orders of traditional wooden boats, not plastic ones. Cross-cutting perspective and respect of diversity is reached by temporary activities (workshops etc.) where local people and guests or tour - ists of all ages participate and share their perspectives. Actually, the Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding is, in its core, an eco-museum (al - though this word is not part of its name), where synergy of a traditional way of life (shipbuilding, fishing, agriculture) is meeting the new reality (over dominance of tourism) where tourists are welcoming guest to have an insider’s look into how life before mass tourism was, and how it could continue to be. 4. Heritage Interpretation strategies applied: use of the Tore model / use of immersive techniques. The Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding and its permanent exhibition is a quite youngmuseum (opened in 2015). However, in eight years it has grown, and thanks to the full support by the local community now it is managing the oldest part of Betina’s harbour, where only small wooden boats, locally made, can be moored. The harbour became, thus, an open gallery of not musealised items, but of things which still are in daily use, representing tradition and heritage at the same time. Furthermore, the Museum is working on es- tablishing agricultural interpretation routes, both on land, and sea. The Museum initiated many activities connected with its main theme, including the Festival of the Betina Gajeta (a kind of local small wooden boat, 5 to 8 meters long, 2 to 2,60 meters wide) together with the Betina Gajeta 1740 Association. One of the main attractions of the Festival is the traditional wooden boats race “Za dušu i tilo” (For Body and Soul). Workshop at the Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding. Photo © Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding