Sir John Soane’s Museum: Labyrinths, Sarcophagi & Punk Spirit in a House Museum Why Sir John Soane’s Museum Is Unlike Any Other House Museum Minimalism.That’s the trend now.Smooth concrete. White walls. Hidden doors.Art as a single canvas, floating in...
Janša’s Apiary Breznica – Buzz, Memory & A Different Kind of House Museum World Bee Day Begins in a Small Slovenian Village I know what you’re thinking.An apiary? That’s not a house museum!What’s this doing on House Museum Nerd?? But hey — if a balcony in Verona...
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...
