#Victorian House Museum

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[resplendentoutfit]

It's getting chilly, so let's crank up the Fashion History Time Machine and savor a few lovely jackets and a cape from the Victorian era.

Silk velvet jacket with jet beads • c. 1895 • Cohasset Historical Society, Cohasset, Massachusetts, U.S.

House of Worth • silk, jet beads, linen • c. 1890 • Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is an excellent example of late 19th-century dress imitating men's wear of the late 18th century. This Worth jacket eloquently imitates the silhouette and the ostentatious quality of court costume of the previous century. The extraordinary jet beadwork embroidery is stylized to represent the elaborate silk floss embroidery of the past to great effect. – Metropolitan Museum of Art

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[museeeuuuum]

Here is a more detailed breakdown of my museum closure. It's a bit different than my usual content but I think it's important to discuss museums closures and their impact on staff, communities, and the sector.

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[marzipanandminutiae]

I love your poll about the house museums, i have been to many because it was an interest of my mother's growing up. I wanted to share about tour-able mansions in Rhode Island, USA. They are full of history and feel incredibly haunted.

Oh, in Newport? Yeah, those are really cool!

They were summer homes for the hyper-wealthy of (mostly) New York City, and really functioned more as event venues than family houses. The scale and grandeur of most of them boggles the mind:

(The Breakers, built in 1893-95 for the Vanderbilt family. This is the grandest of them all, but the one I've visited- Rosecliff -wasn't far behind.)

One of my friends used to work at the mansions- one organization runs all of them, as museums -and she says some are haunted. I'm not going to tell you which ones, though; that seems like it would spoil the fun.

Happy touring!

[curatorsday]

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Today, I presented "There's No Place Like Home: Household Hazards from Victorian Times to Now" for our Out to Lunch series along with Toni Gardner from Cornell Cooperative Extension. My section was a speed run through the Your Victorian House is Killing You exhibit while she talked about the disposal of toxic materials today. We had a good turnout and I think everyone enjoyed it.

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[desos-records]

good afternoon and a pleasant what the fuck to the visitors of the historic victorian house I work at who see the big gold ring in the ceiling of one bedroom and immediately think sex swing there's never a dull moment with y'all

[stevegifford]

2/5/23

[luxebeat]

Trod hallowed ground as you immerse yourself in history at Gettysburg, PA

History is everywhere in Gettysburg. You can’t avoid it, but that’s the point. The cannons, monuments, statues, cemeteries…they’re all here as lasting reminders of courage and sorrow. And most importantly, they show us where we’ve come from and just how far we’ve yet to go.  In this quaint south-central Pennsylvania town, eighty miles from our nation’s capital, two armies clashed on three…

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The way that sewing clears my head is uncanny

[villafinale]

Two Minute Reads: Fairings - The "Victorian Memes"

Have you seen Villa Finale’s collection of Fairings? Fairings are small porcelain figures – ranging from three inches to no more than five inches – that depict a variety of political or domestic scenes, usually with humor – they were the “memes” of their era, if you will. The term was used for a variety of prizes awarded mainly at English country fairs but somehow, the name “Fairing” would be…

[museeeuuuum]

So, as promised, I thought I would introduce the museum where I am currently employed as an assistant curator and share a bit of the history. Point Ellice House is one of nearly a dozen provincially owned heritage sites across British Columbia. We have over 12,000 objects, and it is my job to care for not only the artifacts but the historic house as well. I run a strict pest management and cleanliness regimen that helps to preserve the house and all of the neat artifacts on display (and in storage) under its roof.

Like most museums, this place has a very colonial history. Point Ellice House is among the oldest homes in Victoria and was constructed between 1861 and 1862 for Catherine Wallace (daughter of Hudson’s Bay Chief Factor, John Work) and Charles Wentworth Wallace. By 1867, the couple fell on hard times and were forced to sell the home, at which point the O’Reilly family moved in. The O’Reilly’s would live at Point Ellice House until 1975 when they sold the house (and everything in it) to the province. Three generations of the O’Reilly family lived at Point Ellice House over 108 years, and they rarely threw things away, resulting in a massive collection of Victorian, Edwardian, and mid-20th century household ephemera. It is an amazing collection, and I am so lucky to be able to work with it. In my next post I will talk a bit more about the O’Reilly family and how they were able to afford such a luxurious lifestyle (and what that meant not only for the First Nations people of BC, but the Chinese settlers who also called this city their home).

This is primarily an introductory post, but please let me know if you have any questions you would like answered!

If you enjoy these posts, I also have a YouTube channel where I chat “in person” about niche historical topics and museums. If you enjoy my content, you can buy me a coffee or join one of my membership tiers (which have some juicy perks!). Thank you for joining the adventure!

[mythicalltea]

Con of working as a tour guide in a historic museum:

People.

Pro:

I get to touch the stuff 😈

[marzipanandminutiae]

OK this is on me for putting the important clarifying information in the tags: I am not talking about making a house livable

No I am talking about making a house a stark, white, open-concept hellscape with recessed lighting and marble countertops and two kitchen islands or whatever

That stuff? That is also not cheap. I firmly believe that if people have the budget to make a house look like an IKEA showroom, they have the budget for restoration. That’s not something a middle class buyer who just needs to make the house livable does. And if they don’t have the budget for IKEAfication… Well, I’m not talking about them

(Of course the other side of it is that sort of thing is often done by flippers trying to make as much money as possible, not people who want to live in the house at all)

"we bought this Victorian house and opened up the interior, adding lots of overhead lights and pewter walls-"

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