Juliets House Verona Opera, Myths & Tourists in Love No rock gigs in Verona.But something even better.Arena Verona.Bizet’s Carmen.Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Twelve thousand people.No microphones. No speakers.Every castanet strike soft and clear.Costumes,...
Emery Walker’s House, London Where socialism met wallpaper. Hands down — one of my favourite house museums ever.Not because it’s flashy. It’s not.Not because I knew who Emery Walker was. I didn’t. It’s because of how this house feels.Warm. Honest. Lived-in.And because...
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Art, adolescence & a stuffed crocodile. Kids grow up fast.We took our daughter to Amsterdam when she was still in that sweet teenage window — old enough to enjoy the trip, but young enough that she still wanted to...
Tito’s house museums, Podsreda & Bistrica ob Sotli, Slovenia & Kumrovec, Croatia The future still dances to the old tunes of Yugoslavia I was born in Yugoslavia.Not the Yugoslavia of Tito himself — he died three years before I was born —but the one that still...
Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum, Thal, Austria The Austrian Dream in muscle form — where a Terminator once shared a toilet. December. My first year as director of an institution managing four house museums in Žirovnica, Slovenia. To build team spirit, I proposed a small...
Open Talks 2025, Icom Demhist Parallel Narratives and One-Night Stands How do you fit a hundred stories into one house museum?Easy. You don’t. But you try anyway.And then you join a bunch of other house museum professionals who are also trying. This year’s Demhist...
