{"product_id":"reimagining-historic-house-museums-9781442272989","title":"Reimagining Historic House Museums","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing from innovative organizations across the United States, Reimagining Historic House Museums is an indispensable source of field-tested tools and techniques drawn from such wide-ranging sources as non-profit management, business strategy, and software development. It also profiles historic sites that are using new models to engage with their communities to become more relevant, are adopting creative forms of interpretation and programming, and earning income to become more financially sustainable. The book is a combination of a museum conference, a hands-on workshop, and toolbox. It contains five main parts:1.Fundamentals and Essentials2.Audiences3.Different Approaches to Familiar Topics4.Methods5.Imagining New Kinds of House MuseumsThis authoritative guide from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) will help house museum boards, directors, and staff seeking a path forward in rapidly changing times. Graduate programs in public history, museum studies, curat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurino and van Balgooy have translated their acclaimed one-day workshop, Reimagining Historic House Museums, into a provocative and eminently actionable volume that should be required reading anyone in or out of the field who cares about the future of our country's historic places. -- Sean Sawyer, Ph.D., Washburn \u0026amp; Susan Oberwager President, The Olana Partnership\u003cbr\u003eAt times practical, at times thought provoking, Reimagining Historic House Museums: New Approaches and Proven Solutions is both a checklist for the basic operation of your museum, and a bundle of wildly divergent ideas to take your organization to the next level. Editors Turino and Van Balgooy set out on an ambitious journey, bringing the expertise of multiple scholars and practitioners in the field together in one volume. The result is an utterly readable book that addresses fundamentals and essentials, audiences and different approaches, methods and imaginations. Together with the list of resources after each of its 26 chapters, in combination with the extensive bibliography at the end of the book, Reimagining Historic House Museums may well make this volume the go-to resource par excellence, for staff, board and volunteers in historic house museums, at every level of their career or engagement. -- Remko W.T. Jansonius, Deputy Director, Collections and Curatorial Affairs, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL, Board Secretary, DEMHIST (ICOM’s International Committee for Historic House Museums)\u003cbr\u003eCan historic house museums, long a staple of sanitized pasts, be repurposed for new audiences?  Could they even `enliven participatory democracy?’ Turino and van Balgooy, in Reimagining Historic House Museums, make the case that they already have.  Both prescription and provocation, this guide is especially for readers who know that educating visitors sometimes means re-educating boards. -- Seth C. Bruggeman, Director, Temple University Center for Public History\u003cbr\u003eEvery chapter of Reimagining Historic House Museums pulls from the best in the field. From the chapter authors to the research, writings, and model sites, each facet of running a historic house and making it relevant to the community it serves is well covered. This title will become indispensable as a resource for any sized museum. -- Andrea Malcomb, Director, Molly Brown House Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents  Introduction by Kenneth Turino and Max A. van Balgooy  Part I Fundamentals and Essentials   Chapter 1Imagining a Reimagining Process for House Museums by Max A. van Balgooy  Chapter 2 Enterprising House Museums by Lawrence J. Yerdon   Chapter 3 Evaluation is Not Just Nice, It is Necessary by Conny C. Graft   Chapter 4 The Essential Role of Boards in Reimaging House Museums by Donna Ann Harris   Chapter 5 Reaching New Heights with Volunteers in Historic House Museums by Alexandra Rasic   Chapter 6 Surviving a Capital Campaign: A Slightly Irreverent Guide to Fundraising by Nina Zannieri  Chapter 7 Success Factors for Small Historic House Museums by Monta Lee Dakin and Steve Friesen   Chapter 8 Reimagine House Museums: Loosen Up but Don’t Let Go! By Thomas A. Woods   Chapter 9 Value of History Statement by History Relevance   Part II Audiences   Chapter 10 Using Historic House Museum Audiences to Drive Change by Katherine Kane   Chapter 11 Cultural Heritage Travelers and Historic House Museums by Amy Jordan Webb   Chapter 12 Finding Numen at Historical Sites by Ron M. Potvin  Chapter 13 Community Engagement: Radical Renewal for Historic House Museums by Dawn DiPrince    Part III Different Approaches to Familiar Topics   Chapter 14 “Do Something Transformative” by Callie Hawkins and Erin Carlson Mast   Chapter 15 Listening for the Silences: Stories of Enslaved and Free Domestic Workers by Jennifer Pustz   Chapter 16 Interpreting Women’s Lives at Historic House Museums by Mary A. van Balgooy   Chapter 17 Where the Magic Happened by Susan Ferentinos  Chapter 18 Reflecting Race and Ethnicity in House Museums by Jane M. Eliasof and Claudia Ocello   Chapter 19 Why Do Furnishings Matter?: The Power of Furnishings in Historic House Museums by Laura C. Keim  Chapter 20 Rethinking Architecture in the Realm of House Museum Interpretation by Cheryl A. Bachand  Chapter 21 Looking Beyond the Front Door to Find Spirit of Place by Lucinda A. Brockway   Part IV Methods   Chapter 22 The Historic House Museum Tour: A Matter of Life and Death by Patricia West   Chapter 23 Everyone’s History Matters: School Programs at Historic New England by Carolin Collins   Chapter 24 Creating Minds-On Exhibitions in Historic House Museums by Robert Kiihne  Part V Imagining New Kinds of House Museums   Chapter 25 Reinventing the Historic House Museum: Three Potential Futures by Elizabeth Merritt with responses by Carol B. Stapp, Susie Wilkening, Brian Joyner, Jorge A. Hernandez, Emiliano ‘Nano’ Calderon, Nathan Ritchie, Barbara Silberman, and Joe McGill  Chapter 26 Yes, America, You Need Another House Museum (But Read This Book First) by Kenneth Turino     Bibliography   National and Regional Organizations  About the Editors and the Contributors","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040000016727,"sku":"9781442272989","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442272989.jpg?v=1750945479","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reimagining-historic-house-museums-9781442272989","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}