Please help us complete the Henry Darger Room Collection. We need funds to cover contractor's expenses, to complete conservation of fragile objects and room interpretation, and to create facsimiles of scrapbooks and other objects. We not only wish to complete this room as a unique place to experience Henry Darger's working process, but we want Intuit's Henry Darger Room Collection to be a leader in the genre of room installations in the 21st century.

Working through the issues of reinstalling a room that could not be preserved in situ or to its original floor plan, we studied historic rooms recreated in new locations, such as Marianne Moore’s Greenwich Village living room, relocated and recreated in the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s living room from the Francis W. Little house, relocated and recreated in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

We looked to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York as a model for preserving the authentic patina of time and use, rather than sanitizing artifacts for a museum environment. A remarkable, contemporary model was found in Francis Bacon’s studio, which was deconstructed from its original location in London using archaeological methods, and reinstalled at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery in Dublin. Both Bacon’s and Darger’s studios were dense and chaotic manifestations of their artistic processes; the remains of their studios provide tangible links to the gestation of highly original and significant bodies of art.

Help us preserve this installation and join Darger's Army today.

Enlist at the following levels: $250 : Private Framing of original paper artifacts. $300 - $500 : Specialist Conservation and preservation of artifacts.   $500 - $1000 : Corporal Creation of interpretive materials.   $1000 - $2500 : Sergeant Creation of facsimiles of Darger's scrapbooks and source materials.     $2500 + : Sergeant Major Creation of an illustrated educational brochure about the Henry Darger Room Collection.