Curating dirt & dirty underwear – 10.26.13

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Published by twistedpreservation - F. Vagnone

Museum Anarchist, preservationist, sculptor, author of "The Anarchist Guide to Historic House Museums" (Left Coast Press, 2015)

2 thoughts on “Curating dirt & dirty underwear – 10.26.13

  1. The George Etienne Cartier Museum in Montreal used to do a wonderful theatrical program that took visitors through the house as if they were being interviewed for a maid’s job. They were given cleaning supplies in each room and told what task they were expected to do–carrying weighted buckets up the stairs, cleaning the carpets, dusting, tying the mistress into a corset. At each stop they practiced the task with brushes, feather dusters, baking soda, rags. It was a marvelous program and great fun.

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