Evolving House Museum

Margaret Iacono Wertz, (MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York) specializes in northern art and the history of collecting. She was formerly Associate Research Curator at The Frick Collection, New York (2000–2019).Esmée Quodbach (MA, Utrecht University) is a specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting as well as the history of collecting. She was formerly Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection, New York (2007–2020).

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and NowMargaret Iacono Wertz and Esmée QuodbachPart 1: Early Beginnings1 Cleveland House as Art Museum? The Short Life of the ‘Louvre of London’Anne Nellis Richter2 Art, Science, and Empire: Contextualizing the Collections at Frederic Church’s OlanaAllegra K. Davis3 Historical Challenges and Future Perspectives for Collection Museums: The Case of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, AntwerpUlrike Müller4 In the Heart of Florentine Collections: Frederick Stibbert and His MuseumEnrico CollePart 2: The Gilded Age and Beyond5 The Divergent Legacies of Parisian Collectors Isaac and Moïse de CamondoMia Laufer6 The Frick Collection: From Private Home to Public MuseumInge Reist7 The Ringling’s Ca’ d’Zan: Its Evolution from Winter Residence to Historic House MuseumMarissa S. Hershon8 An Infinite Reverie: A History of Cairo’s Mr. & Mrs. Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil MuseumNadine Nour el DinPart 3: Looking Back, Looking Forward9 Black Voices and Modern Art: The Problem of “Inclusiveness” at The Phillips CollectionEliza Butler10 Between Exclusivity and Public Access: The Kazys Varnelis House-Museum in Vilnius, LithuaniaAistė Bimbirytė11 A House Museum as a House Temple: Sequenced Ritual Spaces in Hung’s Art Gallery in TaipeiChih-En Chen12 A New Type of House Museum: Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne (2009)Georgina S. WalkerIndex