We Carry It Within Us: Reinterpretation at Historic Cherry Hill

FAIN: BP-287734-22

Historic Cherry Hill (Albany, NY 12202-1111)
Shawna Reilly (Project Director: January 2022 to present)

Planning for a tour and orientation exhibit that incorporates new research and scholarship on Cherry Hill, a historic home in Albany, New York.

In 2020-2021, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Historic Cherry Hill initiated an interpretive planning process that culminated in the Design Concept for a new visitor experience. The proposed project, We Carry It Within Us: Reinterpretation at Historic Cherry Hill, will build on this work—and on a body of scholarly and audience research performed over 2020-2021—to complete the final planning phases of Schematic Design and Design Development. The new tour and orientation exhibition will be dialogic, immersive, and inclusive, sharing the complex stories of the diverse members of the Cherry Hill household and exploring themes, such as race, privilege, wealth, inequality, and social justice, themes identified in focus groups to be important to our target audiences: heritage tourists, millennials and residents of our immediate community.