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...By all accounts he kept a tidy house, but his lurid imagination would have appreciated the gritty urban Bronx development that has since enveloped the once isolated cottage in the then separate village of...
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...Although none of the original contents of the house remain, the museum’s exhibition space displays several of Liebermann’s works from its collection and long-term loans....
...Inside the 19th-century wooden house, in place of furniture, display cases, numbered and arranged in order, correspond to some of the 83 chapters in the 750-page novel....
...The museum’s artefacts, manuscripts and portraits illuminate the Romantic drama of his life in the house, where he fell in love with neighbour Fanny Brawne and became terminally ill with tuberculosis....
...He found inspiration there, using found bones and rocks as models and filling the house with natural objects....
...The enchanting stone house, in the Fontainebleau forest south of Paris, feels like the setting of a Charles Perrault fairy tale....
...She and her staff, she says, are constantly balancing “the stewardship of a carefully maintained historical house museum full of authentic Alcott belongings” with the “joy and vitality visitors bring every...
...“But also the way they work together with each other, and the way they interact with the architecture of the house.”...
...The design brief stated that the house should intermingle “work and play, concentration [and] relaxation”....
...Her advocacy continues today in the form of Pearl S Buck International, which supports humanitarian aid projects around the world and operates the museum....
...His name is hardly known outside New York, despite his work’s beauty and success: he participated in exhibitions at the Whitney, Metropolitan Museum, Jewish Museum, Smithsonian and many more....
...It has been meticulously restored and now houses the American College Dublin....
...When the building was redesigned to accommodate a museum — which opened in 2017 — it was the more recent parts that were appropriated along with the old basement, now housing a refined shop....
...The house became a symbol of American ideals, almost continuously depicted on the back of 5-cent coins since 1938....
...The museum also boasts an exceptional collection of Joyce’s belongings....
...The Schindler House was reunited with Vienna when it was taken on by a branch of that city’s MAK architecture museum, which opens it to the public....
...The style is exemplified in Frederick C Robie House (1908-10) in Chicago — which, along with New York’s spiral-shaped Guggenheim museum, is among eight Wright designs in the US that now form a Unesco World...
...It was only in 2016 that it embarked on a three-year project to turn it into a museum, and today guests are invited to wander self-guided through the house’s Georgian — and Jamesian — splendour....
...This is a museum full of fascinating stories, often told through familiar objects, from the whisky paraphernalia used to market the city’s most famous product to a doll’s house made by a German prisoner...
...But her life and preserved lodgings have become part of a distinctive New York house museum that showcases the conditions of thousands who fled domestic and international turmoil from the mid 19th century...
...Kate Randall, an assistant in the 1990s, describes innocently asking for a vacuum cleaner to clean the master’s house. Takaezu handed her a rag and ordered her to her knees....
...The modern extension to the museum houses the real relics: manuscripts, first editions and little souvenirs like gloves, brooches, pens and other items cherished for their connection to the Brontës....
...A planning committee of the City of London Corporation on Wednesday voted to grant the local authority permission to knock down the 1970s museum and next door Bastion House tower on the edge of the Barbican...
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