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Recent Exhibitions Music of the Federal Period
How does the staff at a historic house museum determine how to accurately reflect the house as it was really lived in by its early residents? Which room was the master bed chamber? How did the family place their furniture? What did they likely choose to hang on their walls? Did they use carpet, rugs, or hardwood? Did they choose paint or wallpaper? This museum-wide exhibition will show how these and other such questions are answered through a discovery of the house's own interior clues, in concert with images and resources from the past that show custom and practice in similar homes of the period, as well as primary resources such as residents' letters and possessions. Please join us to view how the house, with its longtime collection and display of lovely 1790s-1830s decorative arts in a grand space, is being changed -- reinterpreted -- to reflect actual use by its ca. 1800 first residents as a fine, practical and simplified Federal period home. Fran, Have You Supplied the Table? An exhibition that presented the upper middle-class perspective on dining in the context of preparation, presentation, and manners as discovered through a unique collection of silver, porcelain, serving wares, and letters.
Preparing for the Ball: The exhibition featured objects from the collections of Dumbarton House, The Wyck Foundation, A National Historic Landmark House & Garden in Philadelphia, and the private collection of exhibition co-curator, Mary D. Doering. The exhibition was co-curated by Mary D. Doering, Collector/Independent Scholar, and Scott Scholz, Museum Curator at Dumbarton House.
Check out FOX-5 TV at Dumbarton House, January 8, 2009
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