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Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons To Touch Pain7ngs
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Mount Vernon Estate Virginia Built – 1757 to 1799 Began life as a house museum - 1858
Monticello Virginia Built – 1770- 1826 Began life as a house museum - 1923
Villa Savoye Poissy, France Built – 1928 - 1931 Began life as a house museum - 1997
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Van Cortlandt House New York Built – 1748 Began life as a house museum - 1897
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Olana Historic Site New York Built – 1870 to 1891 Began life as a house museum - 1966
Gamble House California Built – 1909 Began life as a house museum - 1966
Fallingwater Pennsylvania Built – 1937 Began life as a house museum - 1964
Eames House California Built – 1949 Began life as a house museum - 2006
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Landscapes as se;ngs for contemporary concepts
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Architecture as contemporary innovator
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Interiors as site-‐specific installa7ons
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Interiors as se;ngs for contemporary life
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Transcend the object-‐ness of an historic site and seek instead its essence
“the value of a house is the dwelling within it”
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Diagram of fluid historic house management. ( Franklin Vagnone)
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Traditional Artifact-based Placement within context Cerebral
Contemporary Experience-based
Immersive recombination Tactile
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Rules of Civility Virginia Maksymowicz
2007 Powel House Museum
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS, 2007
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Anywhere but Now 2015
Wilton Historic House Museum, Richmond, VI National Society of the Colonial Dames, Think-tank with Chipstone Foundation
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Karen Kilimnik 2007
Powel House Museum PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS, 2007
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Various Contemporary installations 2006-2015
Merchants House Museum, NYC
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The Machine Project, installation and performances 2014
Gamble House, Pasadena, CA Friends of the Gamble House, MAK, AXS Curiosity Festival
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Touch History Kathleen Granados
2014-2015 Morris Jumel Mansion
Historic House Trust of New York City & Morris Jumel Mansion
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Part of Fiber Philadelphia, 2008 International Fiber Biennial
Marie H. Elcin, Water, Water, Everywhere, Physick House Museum Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, Keeping it Under Wraps, Phuong X. Pham, Stasis, Extended, Powel House
Curated by Robert Wuilfe PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
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Unpacked Peter Hoffmeister
2014 Morris Jumel Mansion
Historic House Trust of New York City & Morris Jumel Mansion
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Between Worlds Candy Depew:
2006 Physick House Museum Curated by Robert Wuilfe
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
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The past unravels 2012
Merchants House House, New Jersey Jersey Heritage
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La Declaración Roxana Perez-Mendez
2007 Powel House Museum
Curated by Robert Wuilfe PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
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Philagrafika presents Megawords Powel House Museum
September, 2006 Curated by Robert Wuilfe
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
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Fred Wilson: Mining the museums Yinka Shonibare: Brooklyn Museum Period Rooms
Richard Saja: Historically Incorrect
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Party Time Yinka Shonibare
2009 The Ballantine Historic House of the Newark Museum
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He named her Amber 2008-2009
The Grange Historic House Museum, Ontario, Canada Art Gallery of Ontario, The Grange Historic House
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“From 1837 to 1841 Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed
shared this bed, not by necessity, but by choice.”
The Lincoln Bedroom 2013
Skylar Fein C24 Gallery, NYC
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Playing Telephone With Ghosts Caitlin Emma Perkins
Various locations throughout 2007 Curated by Robert Wuilfe
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
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LOOK PIMA Dance Group
2007 The Powel House, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks
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The Loves of Aaron Burr: Contemporary art exhibition & CORSETED an immersive theater experience
Percentage changes as compared to same period previous year 420 rsvp to the opening event (compared to 75 average)
increase of %560 House attendance increased 30%
Gift shop + Attendance revenue increased 60%
CORSETED Immersive theater event, Morris Jumel Mansion, 2012, Carol Ward Exec. Director
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE: A TRUE ACCOUNT IN NINE PARTS
David Gatten Powel House Museum
November 2006 PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LANDMARKS
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Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museum Media artist projects 2011-2014
MET Period Rooms, Rosedale Historic House Museums, NC University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museum Media artist projects 2011-2014
Rosedale Historic House Museums, NC University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Powel House Ballroom 2009
Powel House, Philadelphia The Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks
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Art- this- House 2015
Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island New York Historic House Trust of New York City & Staten Island Historical Society (HRT)
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Site-specific installation at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum 2009
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, NYC Dyckman Farmhouse Alliance
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Lewis H. Latimer House LatimerNOW project 2015
Latimer House Museum Historic House Trust of New York City
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Menokin Historic House Site 2015
Menokin, VI.
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OPEN HOUSE: Matthew Mazzotta; Community Art Project: Daniel Eller 2013-2014
Coleman Center for the Arts (York, AL)
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Writing on it all 2015
Lewis H. Latimer House Historic House Trust of New York City , Queens College, and Writing on it All
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“If I ran the house museum” 2012-2015
Various historic house museums Historic House Trust of New York City
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Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museum Community artist MOBILE KIOSK MET period rooms; Lewis H. Latimer LatimerNOW project
2011-2014 Historic House Trust of New York City
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2009, THE ETHICS OF DUST.
In a two-week performance, Preservationist , Otero-Pailos and his team of architectural conservators scientifically transferred the pollution onto latex casts.
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Gaasbeek Castle, Brussels Dennis Severs’ House, London
Mikhail Bulgakov House, Kiev
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Preliminary results for site-specific art happenings
Percent change as compared to same period previous year 420 rsvp to the opening event (compared to 75 average) increase of %560 House attendance increased 30% Gift shop + attendance revenue increased 60%
CORSETED Immersive theater event, Morris Jumel Mansion, 2012, Carol Ward Exec. Director
Landmarks Contemporary Projects Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks Powel House, Physick House 2006-2008
Percent change as compared to same period previous year Karen Klimnik Exhibit (Powel House – Philadelphia) House attendance increased 210% Gift shop + Attendance revenue increased 268%
Neon light Merchants House Museum 2006, Pi Grdiner Exec. Director
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TwistedPRESERVATION.wordpress.com (blog) @franklinvagnone (twitter)
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The Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museums Thoughts on Other People’s Houses
Deborah E. Ryan and Franklin D. Vagnone
Left Coast Publishers, Fall 2015