New Solutions for House Museums - Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation of Americas Historic Houses

This substantially enlarged and expanded second edition provides advice for historic site stewards with concerns about the financial sustainability of their historic house museum and its relevance to its audience. Harris adds seven new case studies and updates ten others to showcase a range of alternative uses to safeguard these landmark buildings.

About the author

Donna Ann Harris has worked in the historic preservation field for 35 years. Since 2004, her firm Heritage Consulting Inc. has provided training, research, and consulting services for historic sites and historic commercial districts on volunteer management, fundraising, heritage tourism development, and organizational development activities.

Summary

This substantially enlarged and expanded second edition provides advice for historic site stewards with concerns about the financial sustainability of their historic house museum and its relevance to its audience. Harris adds seven new case studies and updates ten others to showcase a range of alternative uses to safeguard these landmark buildings.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Ann Harris, Harris Donna Ann
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781538120064
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2006-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: American Association for State and Local History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Historic Preservation / General, Conservation of buildings & building materials