As a follow-up to my recent review of the  Anarchist’s Guide to Historic House Museums (Left Coast Press, 2016) today I had the privilege of speaking with authors Frank Vagnone and Deb Ryan. The two have been teaching university classes together for much of their distinguished careers, and the focus of today’s conversation is on how that teaching helps them to achieve a granular understanding of historic house visitor experience.

Museum Anarchist methods were largely pioneered by students documenting and analyzing their own experience in increasingly sophisticated ways. Video and sound mapping, movement studies, and Imagination/Energy/Excitement Graphs are just some of the techniques developed in the authors’ classes.

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