Clare Woolsey, Intern
- Aug 13, 2019
- 1 min
Interning at the Lippitt House
During the summer of 2019, I worked as an intern in the archives at the Lippitt House. I quite enjoyed the experience; through reading older documents and files about the museum, I gained a better understanding of how small house museums work. Lippitt House Museum was formed when the descendants of Henry Lippitt donated the house to Preserve Rhode Island. Lippitt House achieved financial sustainability to become a museum by creating and selling a condo and leasing two apartm
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Jackie Delamatre, Curator of Education
- Jun 8, 2017
- 4 min
Mapping a New Vision for Docent Tours
Lippitt House is pretty much as new as museums get. It opened its doors as a museum in 1993 and only hired its first director in 2013. One of the first things we had to tackle is the program most traditionally associated with any historic site: the docent-led tour. As a staff, we began by talking about our vision for tours. We wanted to develop an historic house tour that kept people listening, asking questions, and sharing their knowledge and views. We wanted to create exper
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