New Solutions for House Museums
Donna’s recent book New Solutions for House Museums: Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation of America’s Historic Houses is viewed as a “must read” in the house museum and historic preservation field.
The book is being used in graduate school classes in museum studies, historic preservation and public history programs across the country. Published by AltaMira Press in 2007, Donna’s book is part of a joint publishing agreement between AltaMira Press and the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) to identify important books in the field.
Donna has published articles about reuse of historic house museums in History News (the quarterly magazine of the American Association for State and Local History) and Forum Journal (the quarterly journal from the National Trust for Historic Preservation) from her research for the book.
Since 2007 Donna has been asked to speak at more than 30 national, regional and statewide conferences about her house museum research and consulting work. Find out about why the house museum model for preserving older homes no longer works and Donna’s take on a broad range of alternatives to save these landmarks for future generations. Order your copy today from Amazon.com. http://wp.me/Pcvdf-6
The reviews of New Solutions for House Museums in professional journals around the world has been outstanding.
Here are all the reviews I have found of the book–note New Zealand and Austria both offered glowing remarks in their professional journals
Review New Solutions CRM Winter 2009
Review New Solutions NERO NTHP 8-07
Review New Solutions Public Historian Summer 2008
Review New Solitions MAMReviewFeb08Bravery
Review New Solutions Australia
Review New Solutions New Zealand Museums
Below are two articles I wrote about the subject of the book. One appeared in the National Trust for Historic Preservation Forum Journal and the other in History News of the American Association for State and Local History
I am quoted as an expert in the following articles. My favorite is this one from The New York Times.
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If you want more information about how I can help you, please contact me at donna@heritageconsultinginc.com