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Home Sweet Museum : investigating the overlap between museum and residence at The Lindfield Victorian House Museum
Mini Dissertation (MSocSci (Tangible Heritage Conservation)--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/89494 Home Sweet Museum : investigating the overlap between museum and residence at The Lindfield Victorian House Museum McGinn, Isabelle nmcollett@gmail.com Lindeque, Melissa Collett, Nancy Mae Site museum Period house museum Home-museum hybrid Lived-in museum Preventive conservation UCTD Mini Dissertation (MSocSci (Tangible Heritage Conservation)--University of Pretoria, 2022. The role of conservation within museums is well-established and can be viewed as straightforward due to the ability to control and regulate environments, access, and use of objects. It is far more complex and challenging to reach the same levels of control in open heritage sites, heritage buildings, and period house museums. These spaces combine conservation of the historic structure, as well as furnishings and objects which do not fit neatly within glass display cabinets where light, dust, pollutants, pests, and other so-called agents of deterioration can be kept out or minimized. When a period house is managed as a museum, there are generally controls set in place to mimic the control found in more traditional museum environment: walkways are delineated and carpeted so as to cause minimal damage to original flooring, objects are kept out of reach, furnishings and sensitive areas of a room are cordoned off. Through regular monitoring, maintenance and cleaning, deterioration and damage are kept to a minimum. The Lindfield Victorian House Museum in Auckland Park, Johannesburg is open to the public as a museum – however, it is also home to owner and curator Katherine Love. Love has looked after the beautifully curated home for decades now, maintaining the house and its Victorian and Edwardian contents to blue heritage plaque status. This intersection between home and museum is a complex balancing act. There are certain practices and daily activities performed within the home that are, by their very nature, hazardous to the objects that are within the house. Conversely, it is this day-to-day living, and the very presence of Katherine Love, that brings the museum to life and gives it its quirky edge, making the Victorian past seem present and important. This research offers a chance to examine the house and its contents, identify potential risks to the continued survival of the collection and offer Love some guidance and potential solutions to mitigate these, so she may continue to care for her home-museum hybrid. UP Postgraduate Masters Coursework bursary Department of Sport, Arts and Culture Funding Tangible Heritage Conservation MSocSci (Tangible Heritage Conservation) Unrestricted 2023-02-14T10:35:55Z 2023-02-14T10:35:55Z 2023-04 2022 Mini Dissertation * A2023 https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89494 10.25403/UPresearchdata.22085831 © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Site museum Period house museum Home-museum hybrid Lived-in museum Preventive conservation UCTD Home Sweet Museum : investigating the overlap between museum and residence at The Lindfield Victorian House Museum |
| title | Home Sweet Museum : investigating the overlap between museum and residence at The Lindfield Victorian House Museum |
| title_full | Home Sweet Museum : investigating the overlap between museum and residence at The Lindfield Victorian House Museum |
| title_fullStr | Home Sweet Museum : investigating the overlap between museum and residence at The Lindfield Victorian House Museum |
| title_full_unstemmed | Home Sweet Museum : investigating the overlap between museum and residence at The Lindfield Victorian House Museum |
| title_short | Home Sweet Museum : investigating the overlap between museum and residence at The Lindfield Victorian House Museum |
| title_sort | home sweet museum investigating the overlap between museum and residence at the lindfield victorian house museum |
| topic | Site museum Period house museum Home-museum hybrid Lived-in museum Preventive conservation UCTD |
| url | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/89494 |