Manzoni House, Milan: Where even the best stories start with a small mistake. Alessandro Manzoni and The Betrothed Imagine this:Your beloved surprises you with two tickets to see Bruce Springsteen in Milan.The little things my baby does… right? You start counting down...
Dr Johnson’s House, London — When Feeding Oysters to a Cat Is a Political Act Samuel Johnson and the Making of the Dictionary London is big. Busy. Loud. And if you’re a house museum nerd, it’s also a bit of a treasure hunt.Keats House, Leighton House, Dennis Severs’...
The Pilon Gallery Ajdovščina — A Gallery Dedicated to the Great Slovenian Artist Veno Pilon Is Pilon Gallery Ajdovščina a True House Museum — or Does Gallery Logic Take Over? Two houses.Blue and yellow.Right in the center of a small Vipava Valley town. One used to be...
When Contemporary Art Enters a House Museum: Andrej Jemec in Čop’s Birth House Andrej Jemec’s exhibition in Čop’s Birth House shows how contemporary art can live inside a historic house museum in Slovenia. This post isn’t really about Čop’s Birth House.You can read...
Forgotten and Living Houses: Villa de Seppi & Rižnar’s House, Hrastnik, Slovenia Villa de Seppi & Rižnar’s House Sometimes puppets take me to places I didn’t plan to visit.And sometimes, even in a small country like Slovenia, you realise how much you still...
The Willet-Holthuysen House Museum, Amsterdam Beautiful things linger — quietly, patiently, endlessly. Amsterdam has it all.Van Gogh. Rembrandt. Red lights. Green smoke.But if you wander off the main routes,away from the crowds and canalside selfies,you find something...
