Museums are one of the many sites in which people engage with history. Institutionally, they are as diverse as are their audiences, and they employ a range of historical practices. One of these is museum theatre, which has been used increasingly to present history to children to allow them to understand not just content but a subject's concepts, methods and structures. This constructivist model has arisen in the context of a questioning of the traditional historical canon. Museum theatre, however, has not been without its critics.