Historic House Museums

Author : Sherry Butcher-Younghans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195355505

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Historic House Museums by Sherry Butcher-Younghans Pdf

Historic house museums can be found in nearly every city in the United States and Canada. These are the homes of the earliest settlers, statesmen, frontiersmen, great writers, artists, architects, and industrial magnates. These are the places, carefully saved and preserved, that represent a cultural heritage. Despite their popularity, it is not uncommon to find museums that are in poor repair, their collections neglected and their staffs grossly overworked. Many are run by well-meaning and hard-working volunteers who have little or no professional training. Often they survive on shoestring budgets and are able to present only limited programs. Serving both as a hands-on guide and reference, this book examines these problems, offering practical advice and solutions which can be easily implemented. Its useful "lessons" include governance, where to find help, care of collections, conservation, security, and interpretation--all designed to increase the professionalism of the historic house museum.

Author : Franklin D Vagnone,Deborah E Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315435046

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Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums by Franklin D Vagnone,Deborah E Ryan Pdf

In these days of an aging traditional audience, shrinking attendance, tightened budgets, increased competition, and exponential growth in new types of communication methods, America’s house museums need to take bold steps and expand their overall purpose beyond those of the traditional museum. They need not only to engage the communities surrounding them, but also to collaborate with visitors on the type and quality of experience they provide. This book is a groundbreaking manifesto that calls for the establishment of a more inclusive, visitor-centered paradigm based on the shared experience of human habitation. It draws inspiration from film, theater, public art, and urban design to transform historic house museums while providing a how-to guide for making historic house museums sustainable, through five primary themes: communicating with the surrounding community, engaging the community, re-imagining the visitor experience, celebrating the detritus of human habitation, and acknowledging the illusion of the shelter’s authenticity. Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums offers a wry, but informed, rule-breaking perspective from authors with years of experience and gives numerous vivid examples of both good and not-so-good practices from house museums in the U.S.

Author : Donna Ann Harris
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780759113824

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New Solutions for House Museums by Donna Ann Harris Pdf

A generational shift is occurring at historic house museums as board members and volunteers retire while few young people step forward to take their place. These landmarks are also plagued by serious deferred maintenance, and many have no endowment funds. What will happen to these sites in the next ten years, and what can be done to assure their continued preservation for generations to come? In New Solutions for House Museums Harris examines possible options and provides a decision-making methodology as well as a dozen case studies of house museums that have made a successful transition to a new owner or user.

Author : Linda Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442239777

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Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom by Linda Young Pdf

Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. Everyone understands the special nature of an art museum, a national museum, or a science museum, but “house museum” nearly always requires clarification. In the United States the term is almost synonymous with historic preservation; in the United Kingdom, it is simply unfamiliar, the very idea being conflated with stately homes and the National Trust. By analyzing the motivation of the founders, and subsequent keepers, of house museums, Linda Young identifies a typology that casts light on what house museums were intended to represent and their significance (or lack thereof) today. This book examines: • heroes’ houses: once inhabited by great persons (e.g., Shakespeare’s birthplace, Washington’s Mount Vernon); • artwork houses: national identity as specially visible in house design, style, and technique (e.g., Frank Lloyd Wright houses, Modernist houses); • collectors’ houses: a microcosm of collecting in situ domesticu, subsequently presented to the nation as the exemplars of taste (e.g., Sir John Soane’s Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum); • English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained thanks to primogeniture but threatened with redundancy and rescued as museums to be touted as the peak of English national culture; English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained for centuries thanks to primogeniture but threatened by redundancy and strangely rescued as museums, now touted as the peak of English national culture; • Everyman/woman’s social history houses: the modern, demotic response to elite houses, presented as social history but tinged with generic ancestor veneration (e.g., tenement house museums in Glasgow and New York).

Author : Kenneth C. Turino,Max van Balgooy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442272996

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Reimagining Historic House Museums by Kenneth C. Turino,Max van Balgooy Pdf

Creating tours, school programs, and other interpretive activities at historic house museums are among the most effective ways to engage the public in the history of their community and yet many organizations fail to achieve their potential. This guide describes the essential elements of successful interpretation: content, audience, and methods.

Author : Jessica Foy Donnelly
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0759102511

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Interpreting Historic House Museums by Jessica Foy Donnelly Pdf

Respected museum professionals discuss contemporary issues and successful programs, and offer practical guidelines and information, up-to-date references, and lively illustrations in this wide-ranging volume. Interpreting Historic House Museums captures the big picture and important details. Its scope and accessbility will make it useful and relevant for both students and practicing professionals.

Author : Rosanna Pavoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521481511

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Reviving the Renaissance by Rosanna Pavoni Pdf

This book offers an account of neo-Renaissance taste and style in Italy during the second half of the nineteenth century. By the time Italy had developed its obsession with the neo-Renaissance in the 1870s, collectors and scholars in the rest of Europe had been excited by Renaissance taste and style for several decades. In Italy the Renaissance was promptly reconceptualised, in a forced alignment with the accepted historical version of its birth and development, and its help enlisted in the search for an Italian national identity. But what represented this neo-Renaissance in Italy, and what aided its diffusion? In an attempt to answer these questions this book explores the many areas marked by neo-Renaissance taste. It traces its diffusion and development from the institutions which instructed its chief exponents, to architecture and exhibitions and the publications which disseminated neo-Renaissance designs so effectively.

Author : Jane Merritt,Julie A. Reilly
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780759119413

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Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums by Jane Merritt,Julie A. Reilly Pdf

Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums describes the care routines that a historic house should practice to protect the site and its collections from damage, wear, deterioration, and catastrophic loss.

Author : Laurence Vail Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000019739939

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Historic House Museums by Laurence Vail Coleman Pdf

Author : Rebekah Beaulieu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781538100325

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Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums by Rebekah Beaulieu Pdf

The first of its kind to offer a discussion of financial management particular to historic house museums, this book is a vital resource to preservationists, staff, volunteers, and board members of historic houses. A reference tool that is accessible in approach yet comprehensive in scope, this book takes you step by step through securing and managing a historic house museum for years to come. In straightforward language, utilizing case studies from historic house museums, and providing sample documents to get you started, Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums guides you on how to: Incorporate as a tax-exempt organization Find historic property designation options and successfully apply Understand contributed income opportunities and raise money Create sustainable earned income opportunities Understand basic accounting and financial planning to ensure the future of your historic house museum.

Author : Patricia West
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588344250

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Domesticating History by Patricia West Pdf

Celebrating the lives of famous men and women, historic house museums showcase restored rooms and period furnishings, and portray in detail their former occupants' daily lives. But behind the gilded molding and curtain brocade lie the largely unknown, politically charged stories of how the homes were first established as museums. Focusing on George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums.

Author : Franklin D Vagnone,Deborah E Ryan
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781629581712

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Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums by Franklin D Vagnone,Deborah E Ryan Pdf

This book offers a step-by-step guide to historic house museums to make them more informative and sustainable through an inclusive, visitor-centered paradigm of the shared experience of human habitation.

Author : Roger W. Moss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0812234383

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Historic Houses of Philadelphia by Roger W. Moss Pdf

"Historic Houses of Philadelphia" brings the region's most impressive museum homes to life with maps, touring information, and historical notes on 50 distinctive homes. 160 photos, 150 in color.

Author : Jennifer Pustz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133018643

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Voices from the Back Stairs by Jennifer Pustz Pdf

Historic house museums--one of the most prevalent types of history museums in the country--have long depicted the owners of the house and their families, but representing the servants has introduced a unique set of challenges. While museum professionals have increasingly incorporated women, immigrants, African Americans, and other minorities into portrayals of the past, these portrayals often show an idealistic world without class antagonisms or ethnic conflict. Exploring the domestic conflicts that may have existed between mistress and servant often creates a more vivid and believable experience for guests. Through her examination of the pitfalls of interpretation, Pustz offers advice for museum professionals on programming accurate and compelling depictions of those who lived their lives in the back stairs and kitchen rather than in the parlor. Based on extensive surveys of historians at historic house museums, this informative study presents examples of successful interpretation programs, including those that have made the kitchen and servants' quarters the most popular stops on the tour. Pustz encourages museum curators to look beyond the archives of their own institution and explore other era-appropriate sources, including advertising and housekeeping guides, when trying to create a complete picture of the house's servants, who often left behind few records.

Author : Patricia Chambers Walker,Thomas Graham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0742503445

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Directory of Historic House Museums in the United States by Patricia Chambers Walker,Thomas Graham Pdf

The first comprehensive guide to America's historic house museums, this directory moves beyond merely listing institutions to providing information about interpretive themes, historical and architectural significance, collections, and cultural and social importance, along with programming events and facility information. Useful cross-reference guides provide quick and easy ways of locating information on almost 2500 museums. A multi-functional reference for museum professionals, local historians, historic preservationists or anyone interested in America's historic house museums.