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. 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.
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. 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. If historic house museums are to thrive and become more meaningful to modern visitors, it is now up to all of us to continue the discussion."-Foreward.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. Vagnone and Ryan have jump started the conversation.
But the creativity in this volume is refreshing, bringing to the conversation some of the only new ideas that have surfaced in some time. You may not agree with all of their conclusions. The authors approach the problem from many different directions. The Anarchist's Guide encourages us to think differently, to challenge conventional procedures, to put visitors first, to take risks. Vagnone, The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committe. But this is, for many historic house museums, a time of crisis, and crises require bold action and creative thinking. Books shelved as anarchist-library: Anarchists Guide to Historic House Museums by Franklin D. In these days of an aging traditional audience. Contents Community markings - Communication markings - Experience markings - Collections/environment markings - Shelter markings Summary "Many of the ideas in this book go against the standard rules of museum practice. Read Anarchists Guide to Historic House Museums by Franklin D Vagnone available from Rakuten Kobo. 1958- Author Cothren, Olivia B NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment.
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