Sadly totally lacks any soul. I want to love it and I've been grappling with this feeling ever since visiting it.

Normally I'd want to support something like this in some way, but, it seems to lack any sort of purpose or soul. I can't say I have any desire or need to ever go back and that I find that disturbing.

It's a cool old building and has a lot of really cool architectural elements, old tech that led to how we all live today, great land and location (all of which frankly are better than the building), but, has the feel of a corporate museum and lacks any sort of home feel to it that many others in the world have maintained.

For instance there's no feel the rooms were actually lived in. Rooms are sparsely filled with random furniture, but absolutely nothing of the family and generations that lived here seems to remain. How does that happen? There is zero chance anyone actually lived there they way it's furnished and there is zero feel the propety was actually ever used as a home.

It's hard to not feel a sadness and sense of loss for some reason when walking it and while beautiful, it's cold/heartless and could just as easily been a Disney attraction or Smithsonian built for purpose building. The whole experience felt like a cash grab.

Idk what exactly it's missing but, my sense is if it was the family as the docents welcoming you in, instead of the security staff which seems to be all that's there it would have a MUCH better feel and create a sense of connection to that time period which the home utterly lacks.

For instance what makes the Whitehouse cool, aside from being the whitehouse is it's actually used, it's pretty obvious ppl live(d) there, it's actually used for something more than just ticket sales. If you want to see something generic, sadly this is it. The family should have done better for this poor old building and left it in better hands.