Heurich Happenings
On Thursday, August 29, 2024 from 6-8pm, celebrate the unique botanicals in beer and craft cocktails at History & Hops: Botanical Edition. Your evening at the historic home of brewmaster Christian Heurich includes a brewery history tour with flora and fauna craftsmanship highlights, an exploration of beverage botany with the U.S. Botanic Garden, and samples from DC’s newest brewery-in-planning, Henceforth, craft cocktail maker BOTL’D, and the museum’s newest historic revival in partnership with Right Proper Brewing Co., Maerzen!
Preservation of an old house entails keeping as much of the original “fabric” as possible. Restoration of an old house entails replacing the “broken” bits of a house so that it still functions as a house. How much restoration is too much?
You know what pairs well? Craft Beer + Garden Crafts. Get Crafty! at 1921, a Biergarten, grab a local craft beverage and join us for free crafting every third Wednesday from 4-8pm.
On Friday, August 2nd from 5:00 - 8:00 pm during First Friday Dupont, join us for Heurich (Open) House: Our Favorite Things! With thousands of incredible details to focus on, the Museum staff are always finding new favorite aspects of the historic Heurich home (built 1892-4)! We’ve chosen some favorite things and favorite stories to share with you!
Happy Heurich “Christmas in July!” On Thursday, July 25th from 5-8pm, celebrate DC’s craftspeople - past and present - in the museum’s biergarten.
Researched by Lost Lagers, brewed by Right Proper Brewing Co. in partnership with the Heurich House, with a can design by Mike Van Hall, this century old beer will be available in August.
Heurich House Museum is preparing for Civic Season with Made By Us, a celebration of self-discovery and civics co-created by Gen Z and cultural institutions that unleashes access to history and showcases the power of democracy.
This Summer the Coming to Washington Project wants to help D.C.’s tourists and residents to get to know each other. What do you want visitors to know? And what do you want to know about them? Become part of the Visitor: Information? installation that will be shared with visitors to DC at several Humanities Truck pop-up events over the course of the Summer tourist season.
Get a rare view inside the collection with Kim Totten, Heurich House Museum’s Collections Manager, on Thursday, July 11th from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm at “A Cup of History.”
One urgent project that topped the list was the original cast iron stairs and porch in the rear of the house. The cast iron work dates from 1914 when the North wing addition was added. Over the decades there were several temporary attempts to stabilize them. But the structure holding everything up was beginning to fail. Pieces of steel added here and some floor jacks add there. With the financial help of a grant, it was time to bring this porch and stairs back their original beauty and functionality.
KAMA DC and the Heurich Urban Manufacturing Incubator present the 3rd annual Im/migrant-Owned Mini Markt on Saturday, June 22nd, 2024 from 3-8 pm in the Heurich House Museum’s biergarten, 1921. The Markt falls during National Immigrant Heritage Month, Civic Season, and the National Week of Making; by commemorating these communities, we are collectively engaging in a civic action. Many of the local small-scale manufacturers the incubator works with are immigrants.
Historic houses have limited opportunities to expand their collections. Sometimes the memory of what belonged to the house was lost to time. Tracking an object's provenance, the record of who has owned an object throughout its lifetime, can be difficult or even impossible. Nonetheless, the Museum's collection is ever changing.
The mission of the Heurich Urban Manufacturing Incubator is to provide economic opportunities to our local small-scale manufacturing communities through: appropriate interventions in business life cycles, collective action, and social enterprises
On Monday, June 10th, the Heurich House Museum and the Picnic Theatre Company invite you to enjoy a picnic and garden party theater in the museum’s biergarten, 1921!
This year each meet-up will focus on a different topic and be hosted by a member of the group! The host will pose a series of discussion questions and share their experience on the topic. Of course, all discussions are welcome and encouraged even if they are not on topic!
We are always trying to learn more about how people would have actually experienced life and work in the home. In general, people’s reactions to Amelia's role often varies, but sometimes visitors express negative comments about her management style. In these cases, I encourage people to think of her role in a more nuanced way and consider the implications this has for the memory of women in power. At the symposium, it was exciting to hear other scholars’ research. There were so many different approaches to looking at food spaces and how people act (and interact) in them. Their reactions and questions about our work at the museum were thought provoking - only emphasizing my feeling that there’s always more research to do!
This May, during AAPI Heritage month, artist Xena Ni will transform the Heurich House Museum into a portal to the future with her interactive art installation, Good Fortunes. Travel to the future with visionary Asian Americans and return with reasons for hope in the present. Good Fortunes is the second installment of the We Should Talk series, a participatory installation that invites you to join visionary Asian American womxn in imagining and shaping the future, created by Philippa Pham Hughes, Adele Yiseol Kenworthy, and Xena Ni.