Keeping up Appearances: heritage values in house museums

Bravery, Suzanne (2008) Keeping up Appearances: heritage values in house museums. In: 16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’, 29 sept – 4 oct 2008, Quebec, Canada. [Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier]

Prévisualisation

PDF 77-sXMR-152.pdf Download (114kB)

Résumé (en anglais)

Determining and valuing the intangible spirit of place has been a complex and varied exercise for cultural heritage curators. Using historic house museums Elizabeth Farm, Meroogal and Vaucluse House, all properties of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW, as examples, this paper examines the effects that physical methods of conservation and restoration have in the transmission of the spirit of the place. It looks at the role of the statement of significance as a guide to the spirit of the place. The pivotal roles and influences of individual curators, and their use of consultants, including educators, as mediators and determinants of the significance of the intangible elements of the spirit of the place are addressed, with a focus on the role that research-based decision-making plays in interpretation. The paper concludes that the uniqueness of a place can be captured in part by diverse approaches, and that it is valued and continuous.

Type:	Document issu d'une conférence ou d'un atelier (Article)
Auteurs:	Auteurs E-mail Bravery, Suzanne NON SPECIFIÉ
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés libres:	historic house museum; spirit of place; interpretation
Sujets:	L.PRESENTATION ET TRANSMISSION DU PATRIMOINE > 06. Muséalisation L.PRESENTATION ET TRANSMISSION DU PATRIMOINE > 02. Interprétation O.PATRIMOINE IMMATERIEL > 01. Généralités L.PRESENTATION ET TRANSMISSION DU PATRIMOINE > 01. Généralités H.TYPES DE PATRIMOINE > 09. Monuments historiques
Nom du monument, ville, site, musée:	Elizabeth Farm, NSW, Australia; Meroogal, NSW, Australia; Vaucluse House, NSW, Australia
Collections spéciales:	Scientific Symposium (ICOMOS General Assemblies)
Volume de la collection spéciale:	2008, 16th
Déposé par:	Jose Garcia
Date de dépôt:	13 septembre 2010 11:50
Dernière modification:	13 janvier 2011 19:12
Références:	Davison, Graeme and McConville, Chris (ed.). 1991. A Heritage Handbook Australia: Allen and Unwin. Donnelly, Jessica Foy (ed.). 2002. Interpreting Historic House Museums. California: Alta Mira. Peter Marquis-Kyle and Meredith Walker. 2004 The Illustrated Burra Charter. ICOMOS Australia. Watts, Peter. 1986 Vaucluse House Conservation Plan including stables and outbuildings.HHT Sydney.
URI:	https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/120

Actions (login required)

Fiche du document

Metadata

• HTML Citation
• ASCII Citation
• Full
• OpenURL ContextObject
• EndNote
• BibTeX
• MODS
• MPEG-21 DIDL
• EP3 XML
• Dublin Core
• Reference Manager
• Eprints Application Profile
• Simple Metadata
• Refer
• METS

Downloads