Is There a Museum in the House? Historic Houses as a Species of Museum

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ID5905937
AuthorsLinda Young (0000-0002-6004-3374, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume22
Issue1
Pages59-77
Publication date2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMuseum Management and Curatorship (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-7775 • E-ISSN: 1872-9185
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09647770701264952
OpenAlexW2008545985
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited3

n\t\t\t\t\tThe historic house museum exemplifies the enormous power of the museum idea to make specimens out of the material world. In fact, houses are an old museum form, very numerous and globally spread. This paper surveys the diverse inspirations of the species, its peculiar expressions, and its formative/deformative relationship to the English country house, via case studies in the UK, the US, and Australia. The paper identifies a characteristic museology that has developed to manage the conditions of house museums and suggests that the contemporary practice of heritage management derives an important strand of its direction from the traditions of house museology. Lastly, it considers the challenge, 'who wants house museums?' \n\t\t\t\t

Archaeology · Geography · Museum education · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Museology · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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