Reimagining Historic House Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reimagining Historic House Museums write by Kenneth C. Turino. This book was released on 2019-09-13. Reimagining Historic House Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums
Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums write by Franklin D Vagnone. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums
Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums write by Jane Merritt. This book was released on 2010-01-16. Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums
Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums write by Rebekah Beaulieu. This book was released on 2017-08-08. Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Domesticating History
Domesticating History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Domesticating History write by Patricia West. This book was released on 2013-09-03. Domesticating History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
