Abstract

This study discusses the operating concepts and history of house museums by examining the Giorgio de Chirico House Museum in Rome, Italy. As a house museum pursues the role as a repository of experience and knowledge, how to facilitate interactions between disseminators and recipients of such assets has emerged as an essential issue for the museum’s sustainable development. House museums channel individual and collective memory across different periods and spawns the dialogue between the past and the present. They can generate the cross-network impacts on the communities in that process. The Giorgio de Chirico House Museum has established itself as an effective platform to optimize such impacts. It is built around the archives which are continually expanded through participation of researchers as external stakeholders of the museum. Through exhibitions and education programs utilizing these archives, it has become a central hub of social interactions and discourses and has successfully engendered new narratives.

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