#museum guide

One last little gift from the Point Ellice House collection: while looking for something else, I decided to dig through our collection of tour books and museum guides. I am officially obsessed with old museum guides now, they are SO COOl. After looking through so many of the ones in the collection, I started looking online to see if there were museum guides for sale on eBay, and i found so many interesting guides! I may or may not have splurged and purchased a 1923 guide from the Louvre.

How cool would it be to go through one of these institutions with a 100 year old guide to see how much has changed? Or how much has stayed the same?

Guides from the PEH collection:

- (1906) - Guide to the Treasury of the Imperial House of Austria

-(1883) - The Louvre

- (1911) - Two Hours at the Louvre (Painting)

- (1910) - Illustrated Guide of the National Museum of Versailles

- (1900) - York the Castle

that House Museum Tour Guide Feel where a house becomes yours

not yours to own, of course. yours to protect. yours to discover. yours to make real and alive to the world. your responsibility, and therefore something you develop an attachment to

you’re one of the few people who’s still there often enough to learn its everyday quirks: that door sticks, this stair creaks, the room across the hall is always the coldest because it gets no sun. the cordial glasses displayed on the sideboard in the dining room always rattle if you walk quickly past them. for you as for almost nobody else, it’s still a real house, with its own ways and oddities and rhythm like any other

you’re part of its story, and it’s part of yours

3/9/20

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