A Cultural Assets Consulting Group
Folk artist Joe Minter stands beside his memorial to African-American soldiers.
Joe and Hilda Minter’s house and garden in Birmingham, AL.
The interior of the Minter House. It is Joe’s wish for the house to become a house museum.
Joe Minter states that the job of an artist is to “preserve life”. The interior of his house is dedicated to preserving life objects.
How about displaying museum collections by color? forget the narrative?
“museum anarchist” tags were begun as a way to engage a wider community in soliciting comments and ideas about the present state of museums and historic house museums. Many people have taken this idea and tweeted pictures back to me showing their “anarchist” tags in situ ( @franklinvagnone ). What do you find annoying about historic house museums? What would you like to see, do, and touch? Let me know!
“I am a museum anarchist and I think this is the most inviting bedroom ever – I would never leave. ” (but I will never know because there is a glass wall between me and the bed!)
Rumor has it that I snuck in to one of the Period Rooms at the MET – sat down with my typewriter and started to use the room as it was meant to be used – I was writing for my new blog – MUSEUM ANARCHIST. Shortly after this – I was arrested for mis-representing a museum professional and removed from the museum. Photo by Emma Louise Vagnone — at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Twisted Preservation