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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"House museum"”.
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We Call It Pulling a Thread: Deconstructing Femininity at the Molly Brown House Museum
… women are consistently underrepresented in museums. Where women's experiences are present in exhibitions and programming, they are often misrepresented within an entrenched heteronormative and patriarchal framework. Through this thesis, I show how Denver's Molly Brown House Museum works to …
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Uncovering Queer Domesticity: Intuition and Possibility as Methods of Intervention Into the Historic House Museum and Archive
… queer possibility and intuitionin historic house museums. It develops a methodological framework intended to intervene in archival, research, interpretive and institutional practices at these sites. Using the Elfreth’s Alley Museum’s podcast The Alley Cast as a case study, I examine how …
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The New House Museum: How the Development of Modern House Museums are Changing the Philosophies and Standards of Interpretation and Preservation
… emergence of architecturally significant modern house museums has necessitated implementation of new philosophies guiding interpretation and preservation distinct from those governing historic house museums. Traditionally, many historic house museums' significance is the history that took place …
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Curating the composer : preserving and interpreting our musical heritage through composer house museums.
Although historic house museums, especially those in which political or community leaders once lived, are quite common and have been analyzed by museum scholars, the sub-genre of historic houses in which European classical composers lived has not been explored in as great a depth. The purpose of …
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Dead Men Tell No Tales: How Can Creative Approaches to Communication Keep Historic Sites From Going Silent
… that there was a crisis looming for historic house museums came in 1988, when an informal study commissioned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation revealed that of 5,000 historic property museums in the United States, 54% of them received less than 5,000 visitors annually. This was …
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Friends of Franklin: Conflicted transatlantic interpretation of Benjamin Franklin in London
In 2006 Benjamin Franklin House opened in London just in time for Franklin's 300th birthday. The opening represented decades of work by interested parties in England and the United States determined to "save" Franklin's only extant home. Individuals on both sides of the Atlantic raised interest, …
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Reconnecting the Physical and Cultural Landscapes At the Hampton-Preston Mansion In Columbia, South Carolina
… in Columbia, South Carolina is a historic house museum where scores of visitors tour every year. The museum illustrates the property's history dating back to the early Antebellum South. However, what is portrayed to visitors is in part a fabrication due to a systematic disconnection between …
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PLANTING SEEDS OF CHANGE: GARDEN SPACES AND THE SURVIVAL OF HISTORIC HOUSE MUSEUMS IN CRISIS
… of gardens and agricultural spaces at historic house museums, and the potential these spaces have for supporting positive change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, house museums grappled with a crisis of limited funding and ever shrinking visitor capacity, which continues to affect the …
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For the old, rich, and cultured? : historic house museums and their relationship with young adults.
… adults are not active participants in historic house museums. This is a concern because if it is true, it means that historic house museums are not fulfilling their responsibility to educate the public as they are not reaching a particular demographic. Also, by failing to attract young adults, …
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Bridging the Gap: Bringing Preservation to the People
… at a local preservation advocacy organization, a house museum, community development corporations, and the city’s planning and preservation commissions.
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The Larz and Isabel Anderson House, Washington, D. C., by Little and Browne (1902-1905)
… Beaux-Arts mansion now serves as an historic house museum and as the national headquarters for the Society of the Cincinnati, a patriotic organization established by Revolutionary War officers in 1783. Larz Anderson was a member and a descendant of one of the founders of the Society. The fact …
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Collaborating with Chicago Urban Communities: The Unforeseen Challenges of Better Museum Practices
<p>This thesis focuses on better museum practices, social justice museums, and the unforeseen challenges that museums encounter when collaborating and consulting with communities. More specifically, this project looks at the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) and the exhibit <em>Report to the …
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The Leadership Practice of Museum Educators
… conditions and competencies of a set of six museum educators from a large city in the United States. Participants were education department leaders from a variety of museum types, including: A science museum, an ethnic arts museum, a settlement house museum, a children‘s museum, an aquarium, …
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Designing for Dream Spaces: Exploring digitally enhanced space for children’s engagement with museum objects
… engagement of children within family groups with museum objects on display, i.e. where physical contact is prohibited. The main focus is on the influence of digital enhancement on visitors’ engagement with artefacts and not on the digital elements themselves. This study has taken the mixed methods …
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eBhish' - articulations of Black Oceanic presence eThekwini
… to white people. The beach pictorial archives housed at the Old Court House Museum eThekwini reflects this bias, as we find that in it, the predominance of white beachgoers is depicted throughout the beach's history. Since the 1990s, demarcations of those previously white beach areas changed …
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House Legends and Perceptions of the Civil War: a Multiple Case Study on the Civil War Legends Told About Antebellum Homes in the New River Valley, Roanoke Valley, and Nearby Counties of Virginia
… sample of 12 participants who lived in these houses, previously lived in an historic house, or worked in an historic house museum. Each house was chosen as a site of inquiry because it has some significance for those interested in the Civil War or because it represents typical houses in …
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"A Democracy of Goods": An Archaeology of Commodity Landscapes in Columbia, South Carolina, 1870-1930
… final story is one of heritage. I suggest that museums are social-material hybrids that mediate visitors' conceptions of authenticity, knowledge, and history. At the Mann-Simons site, this hybridity shaped the meaning and significance of this site-turned-house museum over the past forty-years. I …
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