[MassHistPres] Fwd: House Museum Conference--limited space still open

[Dennis De Witt]

For those with house museums this may be of interest.

Dennis De Witt



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> September 28, 2007
>
> 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
>
> The Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
>
> The Nichols House Museum, in partnership with the Art History
> Department and Preservation Studies Program of Boston University and
> The Boston Athenaeum, invite you to attend a symposium which will
> address audience cultivation and development in historic house museums
> and features academics and practitioners from both the US and UK.
> Topics of discussion will include the history of house museum
> interpretation and audience experience, the institutional developments
> that affect and are affected by changing audiences and societal
> demands, and the current and prospective audiences of historic house
> museums in contemporary society.
>
> This event is sponsored in part by grants from The Humanities
> Foundation at Boston University and The National Trust for Historic
> Preservation's Preservation Fund for Eastern Massachusetts .
>
> Speakers:
>
> Cary Carson, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (ret.), US, The End of
> History Museums: What's Plan B?
>
> Reena Suleman, Curator of Collections and Research, Leighton House
> Museum, England, Leighton House Museum and the New Connoisseurship
>
> John Walton, University of Central Lancashire, England, Recovering the
> Popular Past: The Beamish Open-Air Museum in its British Context
>
> Giles Waterfield, Director, Royal Collection Studies, Attingham Trust,
> England, The Country House in Britain - Yesterday and Tomorrow
>
> Patricia West, Curator, National Park Service, US, A Thing of the
> Past: The Beginning of History Museums
>
> Registration Fee: $100; $40 for students.
>
> For more information and to register, please contact the Nichols House
> Museum at  nhm at earthlink.net or 617.227.6993, or visit
> www.nicholshousemuseum.org .
>
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