OT 2025 Video Archive
Thank you to all speakers and participants who joined us for DEMHIST Open Talks 2025!
This year, we explored Parallel Narratives—how multiple, sometimes conflicting, stories coexist within the same historic house museum.
We are delighted to share the recorded presentations with you, so you can revisit the discussions or discover them at your own pace.
May these reflections on complexity, dialogue, and inclusive storytelling continue to inspire new ways of interpreting historic houses and engaging with their communities around the world.
Day 1
Keynote speaker : Franklin “Frankie” Vagnone, Stepping Stones Museum for Children, United States of America, When Houses Roam Go directly to the presentation
Grabriela Steinitz. Trude Sojka House Museum, Ecuador, The Trude Sojka House Museum: from the story of three generations, to a story of regeneration. Go directly to the presentation
Paulo de Freitas Costa. Ema Klabin House Museum, Brazil, The multiple memories of a house. Go directly to the presentation
Joanna Sieracka. Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek, Poland, Between National and Local, Public and Private, Universal and Gendered: Parallel Narratives at the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówe. Go directly to the presentation
Mario Nascimento. Museu de Lisboa – Palácio Pimenta, Portugal, Casa Veva de Lima: a case study. Go directly to the presentation
Maria Gravovscaia. A. Pushkin House-Museum, Moldova, “Genius loci” in the golden triangle of old Chisinau. Go directly to the presentation
Day 2
Angelica Policeno Fabbri. Casa di Portinari Museum, Brazil. Heritage Education Project of the Casa de Portinari Museum in Brodowski (Brazil) Schools: Strengthening Narratives for Cultural Identity Formation Go directly to the presentation
Iñaki Urricelqui Pacho & Silvia Lizarraga Pérez de Zabalza. Gobierno de Navarra, Spain.Carlism Museum: new stories in a history museum. Go directly to the presentation
Elena Sánchez Cortina. Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas, Mexico. The House of Chaplains in the School of Saint Ignatius Loyola Vizcaínas, an Eighteenth century building in Mexico City. Go directly to the presentation
Belén Navazo Hourcade & Ingrid Sandell Bull-Njaa. Museum Stavanger, Norway. Contextualizing Stavanger’s Past. A New Narrative Approach to the three house museums: Ledaal, Breidablikk and Holmeegenes. Go directly to the presentation
Matjaž Koman, Žirovnica Institute for Tourism and Culture, Slovenia, Parallel Narratives in Prešeren’s Birth House in Vrba. Go directly to the presentation
Hillary Walker. Toronto History Museum, Canada. A look at Historic New England’s evolving queer interpretation at Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House. Go directly to the presentation
Jenny Seeman & Jennifer Wise. Craigdarroch Castle Historical Museum Society, Canada. Whose History is it Anyway? The challenge of bringing a Syilx woman’s memoirs to life inside a colonial castle Go directly to the presentation
Bonus