Overview

Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to this book. These respected museum professionals consider the history of house museums and the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. If your site isn't using a comprehensive interpretive plan, how can you create one? While doing so, how do you address contemporary issues like race and gender? Don't forget the physical either - does your property need a landscape plan as well as a furnishings plan? And, when you visitors arrive to see all your hard work, how accessible is your property? If the answer is not very, what and should you be doing to address that? Once inside, how good are your tours and guides, and does you furnishings plan allow visitors to maximise their experiences in areas without guides? This book captures the big picture and the important details. Its discussion of contemporary issues and successful programmes, its practical guidelines and information, up-to-date references and illustrations should make it useful and relevant for both students and practicing professionals.

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9780759102507

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Reviews

Rich in case studies, this book like the symposia that spawned it targets 'the small, understaffed, and underfunded' institution. It holds useful information for house museums of all types, however, while its integrative approach to interpretation renders many of its lessons pertinent to an assortment of historic sites.--Mary Munsell Abroe Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society

Author Information

Jessica Foy Donnelly was curator of collections at the McFaddin-Ward House for twelve years.

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