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Lädt ... Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museumsvon Franklin D Vagnone, Deborah E. Ryan
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Part workbook, part slightly irreverent working treatise; this was a fun one. Some bits are sort of obvious - house museum tours are all generally the same, you can’t touch anything or take pictures, and thus they aren’t that interesting unless you are seriously interested in period furniture. So a lot covers what I would say are obvious fixes for museums to gain new visitorship - engage with the neighborhood and it’s potentially changing demographic profiles, have more engaging programming not just static tour guide led events, if pieces are recreations let people sit on them, don’t feel the need to be so fixated on a time period, etc.
But I found a few choice bits in here the most interesting of which was thinking about what time of day it is supposed to be. Most museums spend tons of research time on which time period to restore to or recreate and interpret but little to what is supposed to be “happening” in these rooms at whatever time of day. Enjoyable but very focused so not for the casual reader. ( )