Gadgets Galore! Transforming the American Household

Description

Designed just for historic houses! Ready-to-install traveling exhibit Gadgets Galore! Transforming the American Household invites visitors to engage with history and explore your historic house through the lenses of gadgets and technology.

Gadgets are an integral part of our everyday lives, and, often, objects that we take for granted. Gadgets Galore! encourages visitors to take a closer look at the historic gadgets in your historic house, and to consider how the gadgets of yesteryear informed our modern technology. From light bulbs to coffee makers, and from Velcro to mp3s, your visitors will connect the past with the present and engage with history through the scavenger hunt-style Gadgets Galore!

The 17 easy-to-install text panels focus on the Victorian-era homes so prevalent in California. However, historic homes from other eras will be able to easily re-tool this exhibit to fit their interpreted time period as well! The panels are designed to help interpret the living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, laundry, bathroom, library, and carriage house/garage, but can be comfortably displayed in various locations within the house or grounds.

Gadgets Galore! is a traveling exhibition for historic houses from Exhibit Envoy and Heather Farquhar. This exhibition is based on the initial iterations at the Hayward Area Historical Society and Los Altos History Museum.