As part of The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s What’s Out There Weekend in Cleveland, Chris Merritt led attendees on a tour of the Dunham Tavern Museum and Gardens with museum Director Lauren Murray. The Cultural Landscape Foundation What’s Out There Weekend program brings together thousands of attendees in cities across the country offering two days of free, expert-led tours, encouraging participants to discover the little-known history of a region’s parks, gardens, plazas, cemeteries, memorials, and neighborhoods.

The tour of the Dunham Tavern Museum and Gardens focused on the recently completed master plan with LAND Studio and ongoing implementation with the museum. The themes of the master plan and discussion with tour attendees centered on historic landscape preservation and adaptation with the evolving mission of the museum’s interpretation and programming, inclusive community engagement during master planning and implementation and equitable outcomes for public accessibility on the museum campus, and translating cultural heritage and neighborhood identity into landscape design and programming.