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The Museum of the Home, formerly the Geffrye Museum, [1] [2] is a free museum in the 18th-century Grade I-listed former almshouses on Kingsland Road in Hoxton, London. [3] The museum's change of name was announced in 2019. [ 4 ]
Historic house museums are sometimes known as a "memory museum", which is a term used to suggest that the museum contains a collection of the traces of memory of the people who once lived there. It is often made up of the inhabitants' belongings and objects – this approach is mostly concerned with authenticity .
The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. The Clemens family had it designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. [ 3 ]
In 2017, Solicari became Director of Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum of the Home) in Hoxton, east London. She succeeded David Dewing who had run the Museum for 25 years. [2] As Director of the Museum, Solicari has overseen an £18.6 million capital development project [9] to expand and transform the site. The restoration of the ...
The Hunter's Home, formerly known as the George M. Murrell Home, is a historic house museum at 19479 E Murrel Rd in Park Hill, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma in the Cherokee Nation. Built in 1845, it is one of the few buildings to survive in Cherokee lands from the antebellum period between the Trail of Tears relocation of the Cherokee people and the ...
575 Wandsworth Road, London, was the home of Kenyan poet and civil servant Khadambi Asalache until his death in 2006. Following his death he left it to the National Trust , which opened the house as a museum for pre-booked guided tours.
Fort Worth, home to the “Grandmother of Juneteeth” Opal Lee, was chosen as the home for the National Juneteenth Museum in 2021. Lee, a civil rights activist, was nominated for the 2022 Nobel ...
The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA) was a museum in North London, England, housing one of the most comprehensive collections of 19th- and 20th-century decorative arts for the home. The collections included the Silver Studio collection of designs for wallpapers and textiles, the Charles Hasler collection, and the Crown ...