House-Museums – Selected recent bibliography

Only books, conference proceedings, or magazine issues entirely dedicated to the topic are indexed.

Sherry Butcher Younghans, Historic House Museums, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993.

Luca Leoncini – Farida Simonetti (eds.), Abitare la storia: le dimore storiche-museo: restauro, sicurezza, didattica, comunicazione, Atti del Convegno internazionale Genova 20–22 novembre 1997, Allemandi, Torino, 1998.

Patricia West, Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America’s House Museums. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.

Melissa M. Heaver, Housekeeping for historic homes and house museums, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington DC, 2000.

Jessica Foy Donnelly (ed.), Interpreting Historic House Museums, Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek CA, 2002.

Gianluca Kannés (ed.), Case museo ed allestimenti d’epoca. Interventi di recupero museografico a confronto, Atti del convegno a Saluzzo 13-14 settembre 1996, Centro studi piemontesi, Torino 2003.

Aldo De Poli – Marco Piccinelli – Nicola Poggi (eds.), Dalla casa-atelier al museo. La valorizzazione museografica dei luoghi dell’artista e del collezionista, Lybra Immagine, Milano, 2006.

Trevor Keeble – Brenda Martin – Penny Sparke (eds.), The Modern Period Room: The Construction of the Exhibited Interior 1870 to 1950, Routledge, London, 2006.

Nicola Jane Watson, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006.

Alison Blunt – Robyn Dowling, Home, Routledge, London, 2006.

María Luisa Menéndez Robles, El Marqués de la Vega Inclán y los orígenes del turismo en España, Madrid, Ministerio de Industria Turismo y Comercio, 2006.

Jean Gribenski – Véronique Meyer – Solange Vernois (eds.), La maison de l’artiste. Construction d’un espace de représentations entre réalité et imaginaire (XVIIe-XXe siècles), Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2007.

Harald Hendrix (ed.), Writers’ Houses and the Making of Memory, Routledge, London, 2008.

Rosanna Pavoni, Case museo in Italia: Nuovi percorsi di cultura: poesia, storia, arte, architettura, musica, artigianato, gusto, tradizioni, Gangemi, Roma, 2009.

José Ignacio Gil Pinero (coord.), Museos y mecenazgo: nuevas aportaciones, Actas de las Jornadas 17-19 octubre de 2007, Museo Sorolla, Madrid, 2009.

Jane Merritt – Julie A. Reilly, Preventive conservation for historic house museums, American Association for State and Local History, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2010.

Jennifer Pustz, Voices from the Back Stairs: Interpreting Servants’ Lives at Historic House Museums. Northern Illinois University Press, 2010.

Gianna A. Mina, Sylvie Wuhrmann (eds.), Tra universo privato e spazio pubblico: case di artisti adibite a museo, Atti del convegno annuale ASSSA (Associazione svizzera degli storici e delle storiche dell’arte), Ligornetto, Museo Vincenzo Vela, 9-11 ottobre 2009; Ufficio Federale per la Cultura, Berna, 2011.

Elizabeth Emery, Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881- 1914). Privacy, Publicity, and Personality, Ashgate, Farnham, 2012.

Nuala Hancock, Charleston and Monk’s House: The Intimate House Museums of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Margot Th. Brandhuber – Michael Buhrs (eds.), In the Temple of The Self. The Artist’s Residence as a total Work of Art – Europe and America 1800 – 1948, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Villa Stuck November 2013 – March 2014, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2013.

Begoña Torres González (dir.), Casas museo: museología y gestión: Actas de los Congresos sobre Casas Museo (2006, 2007, 2008), Museo Nacional del Romanticismo / Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 2013.

María Dolores García Ramos, Casas Museo de recreación de ambientes. Una aproximación al caso español, UNED, Córdoba, 2013.

Ruggero Ranieri (ed.), Case museo, famiglie proprietarie e loro collezioni d’arte, esperienze a confronto: Atti del convegno a Perugia, Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello18 – 20 aprile 2012, Pendragon, Bologna, 2014.

Franklin D. Vagnone – Deborah E. Ryan, Anarchist’s Guide to Historic House Museums, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek CA, 2015.

James F. Brooks (ed), Open house: reimagining the historic house museum, «The Public Historian», Vol 37, Issue 2, 2015.

Anne Bohnenkamp et al. (eds.), Häuser der Erinnerung: zur Geschichte der Personengedenkenstätte in Deutschland, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2015.

Paul Kahl, Die Erfindung des Dichterhauses. Das Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2015.

Sandra Costa – Dominique Poulot – Mercedes Volait (eds.), The period rooms, allestimenti storici tra arte, collezionismo e museologia, Bononia University Press, Bologna, 2016.

Linda Young, Historic house museums in the United States and the United Kingdom : a history, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2016.

Marks Walz (Hg.), Handbuch Museum: Geschichte, Aufgaben, Perspektiven, J.B. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2016

Kenneth C. Turino – Max A. van Balgooy (eds.), Reimagining historic house museums : new approaches and proven solutions, American Association for State and Local History, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2019.

10 anos de reflexão sobre casas-museu em Portugal, Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte, Porto, 2019.

Donna Ann Harris, New solutions for house museums : ensuring the long-term preservation of America’s historic houses, American Association for State and Local History, 2° ed. revised, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2020.

Jill M. Gradwell – Kathrin H. Leacock (eds.) Finding history where you least expect it: site-based strategies for teaching about the past, American Alliance of Museums, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2020.

Nicola Jane Watson, The author’s effect: on writer’s house museums, Oxford University press, Oxford, 2020.

Maria Giuseppina Di Monte, Giuseppe Carci, Emilia Ludovici, Valentina Filamingo (eds.), Case museo tra consonanze e differenze, De Luca, Roma, 2021.

Tripp Evans, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2024.

Soledad Pérez Mateo, Cartografías de lo cotidiano: la comunicación en la casa museoMurcia, Editum, 2025.