Real Rooms
Creating, Recreating and Visiting Home
$70.10
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
13 November 2026
Summary
There are many opportunities for tourists and cultural explorers to encounter homes that are open to the public. This book questions why we are so fascinated with these real and imagined spaces of domesticity and what it means to recreate home as a museum experience. It examines what desires are met when we walk through the door of a house museum or stumble across a room set in a gallery environment and reveals how these experiences tap into feelings of nostalgia, aspiration, inspiration, cur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848227309 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848227302 |
| Author: | Sonia Solicari |
| Publisher: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 13 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 280mm |
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Sonia Solicari
Sonia Solicari is a British curator, writer, and museum leader driving cultural transformation. Since 2017, she has served as CEO of Museum of the Home, heading a landmark redevelopment that doubled public space, launching new galleries, and expanding bold, issues-led public programmes. She led the institution’s full reinvention from the Geffrye Museum and has embedded a vision that champions creative practice as a force for social change.
Previously, Sonia was Head of Guildhall Art Gallery and London’s Roman Amphitheatre, and Curator at the V&A. She serves on the National Museum Directors’ Council, the Museum Association’s Ethics Committee, and is a Trustee of Bethlem Gallery.
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