What Travis wrote about sounds very much like the National Museum of
American History's "Within These Walls..."

http://americanhistory.si.edu/house/home.asp

It is an exhibit within a larger museum, and not a stand-alone historic
house.

-Anne Nagrant


-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list On Behalf Of Travis Nygard
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Historic House Re-interpretation

One of the most fascinating house exhibits that I have seen is a
long-term installation at the Minnesota History Center called Open
House: If These Walls Could Talk.  Like your project, they researched
a real house over a long period of time.  What is so innovative is
that they chose to fragment the house into different time periods and
recreate rooms in their museum.  The exhibit starts when the house was
new, and then traces how the household and neighborhood changed.  Each
room is set up as from a different era, with a compelling story
attached. The house thus became a foil for telling the story of
average people negotiating life in Minneapolis / St Paul.  There is a
website for the exhibit, which includes a discussion of the research
process through which it was assembled.

http://www.mnhs.org/exhibits/openhouse/index.htm

All the best,

Travis

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