Recommendations for Historic House Museums

To help house museum professionnals, dedicated to preserving and interpreting these unique spaces, DEMHIST suggests looking at the following resources as a starting point, offering essential knowledge and resources.

• ICOM

Running a museum : a practical handbook. / Comment gérer un musée : manuel pratique (fre). /  Como administrar un museo: manual práctico (spa) 

• National Trust 

 Cultural Heritage Publishing | National Trust

Programmes – The International National Trusts Organisation (INTO) | The International National Trusts Organisation (INTO)

• EPICO program 

Preventive Conservation in Historic-Houses and Palace-Museums: Assesment Methodologies and Applications

Centre de recherche du château de Versailles – EPICO – Preventive Conservation in Historic Houses and Palace-museums (2014-2018) (chateauversailles-recherche.fr)

• Linda Young

Is There a Museum in the House? Historic Houses as a Species of Museum

House museums are not all the same! Understanding motivation to guide conservation

‘House Museology: Houses as museums in the age of heritage’, Paper given at the conference of Demeures Historiques (ICOM), in Valletta, Malta, 2006

• Irit Dekel & Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi

A living place: On the sociology of atmosphere in home museums

• Maarten Liefooghe

The Musealization of the Artist’s House as Architectural Project