Transcending Thresholds will expand Cliveden's interpretation about the lives of people enslaved and in service at the site through developing exhibits and reimagining the tour program to include greater emphasis on the service spaces at Cliveden, specifically the 1767 Kitchen Dependency and pantry with living quarters above and the 1959 Kitchen (formerly the colonnade and later the butler's pantry).

There are two goals for this project: one, to place greater emphasis on the service spaces and on the lives and labor of those enslaved and in service to the Chew family who spent much of their lives preparing and cooking food; and second, to further explore the complex human relationships, power dynamics and social boundaries through the physical and metaphorical doorways at Cliveden.