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Showing posts with label historic house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historic house. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2020
#VisitList Contest!
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Historic Places Day: Show us your Selfies!
This year the national trust for Canada is hosting #HistoricPlaceDay.
However, as many of Canada’s historic places remain closed to the public, and
social distancing measures are put in place they’ve set up new ways for
everyone to celebrate and share in virtual visits online.
From Saturday July 4th to July 31st
you can submit digital selfies via historicplacesday.ca, to get a chance to win
1000$ for yourself and 1000$ for the site you visit!!
There is also a Giveaway, where submitting a photograph and
memory of your favourite Canadian historic place could find you picking up one
of many awesome prizes!!
As more historic sites are opening, we at the Backus-Page House
want to help people get excited and be aware of the museums they are encouraged
to visit. By visiting historicplacesdays.ca you can virtually visit over 550 museums
and heritage sires all over Canada, us included!
So take the time to explore the site and take a digital selfie using the photo of the front of the Backus-Page house and see what other marvelous sites are waiting to be explored!
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Connect, Inspire and Share at Historic House Museums
From an article by George W. Daniel, titled "At Historic Houses and Buildings: Connecting Past, Present and Future" in the Public Programming course I am currently taking.
"We are called to strive to connect people with their history and to help them thereby achieve a sense of belonging to a larger community, of belongonging to those who came before and to those who will come after.
My belief is that historic house museums can play a central role in supporting this effort and can both educate the public about history and inspire them to become engaged in the study and preservation of history. If they set their sights high, house museums can communicate an authentic sense of place about their region and help people develop a sense of connectedness to others and strengthen the sense of worth and responsibility that goes with that.
Historic house museum can do these things because they bring history to people in both tangible and abstract ways and thereby meet a deeply felt human need."
This sums up everything I believe about our beloved Backus-Page House Museum, outbuildings, and gardens. When you visit I'm hoping you make a connection to the land, the house, staff, volunteers, items in the house or the stories we show and tell. I want you to feel that you belong. That the connection you get here inspires you to be closer to past and present generations and become involved in preserving all forms of history for future generations.
A quote I love is "In the end all history is personal." You may visit here and be inspired to pass along an important personal object and its story to a family member or friend, which is just as important as being inspired to donate objects to a museum, volunteer your time, research your family tree, write a book or make a historic documentary.
May what we do here at Backus-Page House Museum and Tyrconnell Heritage Society, give you a sense of belonging and inspire you to pass your personal history on.
Angela Bobier, Cultural Manager
"We are called to strive to connect people with their history and to help them thereby achieve a sense of belonging to a larger community, of belongonging to those who came before and to those who will come after.
My belief is that historic house museums can play a central role in supporting this effort and can both educate the public about history and inspire them to become engaged in the study and preservation of history. If they set their sights high, house museums can communicate an authentic sense of place about their region and help people develop a sense of connectedness to others and strengthen the sense of worth and responsibility that goes with that.
Historic house museum can do these things because they bring history to people in both tangible and abstract ways and thereby meet a deeply felt human need."
This sums up everything I believe about our beloved Backus-Page House Museum, outbuildings, and gardens. When you visit I'm hoping you make a connection to the land, the house, staff, volunteers, items in the house or the stories we show and tell. I want you to feel that you belong. That the connection you get here inspires you to be closer to past and present generations and become involved in preserving all forms of history for future generations.
A quote I love is "In the end all history is personal." You may visit here and be inspired to pass along an important personal object and its story to a family member or friend, which is just as important as being inspired to donate objects to a museum, volunteer your time, research your family tree, write a book or make a historic documentary.
May what we do here at Backus-Page House Museum and Tyrconnell Heritage Society, give you a sense of belonging and inspire you to pass your personal history on.
Angela Bobier, Cultural Manager
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