The Library of Congress > Linked Data Service > LC Subject Headings (LCSH)

Historic house museums


  • URI(s)

  • Variants

    • House museums
    • Museum homes
  • Broader Terms

  • Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Conservation in context : finding a balance for the historic house museum, 1995.
    • found: A richer heritage : historic preservation in the twenty-first century, 2003:p. 17 (the historic house museums and outdoor museum villages that pioneered the historic preservation movement in the United States enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s) p. 400 (the efforts of Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, and a growing number of historic house museums and outdoor historic villages)
    • found: Biography of a tenement house in New York City, c2006:p. 114 (the opening of Washington's Revolutionary War headquarters in Newburg, N.Y, and his Virginia home, Mt. Vernon, in the mid-nineteenth century marked the beginning of Americans' fascination with historic house museums; the few house museums that celebrate ordinary people include farmhouses or log cabins in rural locations)
    • found: Keeping time : the history and theory of preservation in America, 1997:p. 80 (the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities developed a network of historic house museums throughout New England, centrally administered from Boston)
    • found: Museum international, v. 53, no. 2 (2001):Towards a definition and typology of historic house museums, p. 16 (the house museum, a specific museological typology, captures the educational qualities of museums, and also the cognitve and emotional connotations of the house, qualities that do not cancel each other out, but rather reinforce and validate each other) p. 17 (museum-homes which are open to the public as such, that is with their furnishings and collections, and which have never been used to display collections of a different provenance, constitute a museological category in every particular) p. 18 (it is a pre-requisite of house museums, as with all museological buildings, that they protect, conserve, display to the public, and foster education)
    • found: Directory of historic house museums in the United States, c2000.
    • found: Keeping time : the history and theory of preservation in America, 1997:p. 80 (the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities developed a network of historic house museums throughout New England, centrally administered from Boston)
    • found: Middlesex Borough Heritage Committee. Middlesex Borough, 2003:p. 7 (Wayne Townwhip maintains and operates 3 18th-century Dutch colonial farmhouses as historic house museums)
    • found: Museum provision and professionalism, 1994:p. 76 (the nostalgia that often seems to be a part of historic house museums, with their butter churns and provision of home-baked cookies to visitors)
  • Instance Of

  • Scheme Membership(s)

  • Collection Membership(s)

  • Change Notes

    • 2006-11-16: new
    • 2006-11-17: revised
  • Alternate Formats