Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 8-18-2014 12:00 AM Making Ourselves at Home: Representation, Preservation & Interpretation at Canada's House Museums Stephanie Karen Radu The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Dr. Bridget Elliott The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Art and Visual Culture A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy © Stephanie Karen Radu 2014 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Radu, Stephanie Karen, "Making Ourselves at Home: Representation, Preservation & Interpretation at Canada's House Museums" (2014). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 2361. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2361 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. REPRESENTATION, PRESERVATION & INTERPRETATION AT CANADA’S HOUSE MUSEUMS (THESIS FORMAT: Monograph) by Stephanie Karen Radu Graduate Program in Art & Visual Culture A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada © Stephanie Karen Radu, 2014 ABSTRACT Historic house museums are a common, if often overlooked, feature of the Canadian heritage landscape. As national historic sites, and community museums, they address cultural, social, historical and political facets of the past. Pursuing the idea of the house/museum hybrid, this study examines the house museum as a distinct museological type.