Author: George Arthur StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Borrow House Museum
Author: George Arthur StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
BORROW HOUSE MUSEUM.
Author: StephenBorrow House Museum : a Brief Accountof the Life of George Borrow and His Norwich Home with a Bibliography
Author: G. A. StephenMuseums Journal
Author: Elijah HowarthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909. Comp. by Charles Madeley": v. 9, p. 427-452.
Old House Museum. Guide to the Historical Collections. [With Illustrations.].
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Author: Old House Museum (DURBAN)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Domesticating History
Author: Patricia WestPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588344258
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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.
Old House Museum
Author: Old House MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom
Author: Linda YoungPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442239778
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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).
The Librarian and Book World
Author: Libraries, Museums and Art Galleries Year Book
Author: Thomas GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description