GILDED AGE TEA PARTY
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December 9, 2023 l 12:00 – 2:00 PM
The Indianna Room, Gallery 53, 53 Colony St., Meriden, CT Christina Volpe, MA, Curator, The Barnes Museum, presenter $30/person ages 14+ |
"There’s a chill in the air, and the holiday season will be here before you know it! Celebrate with us at "A Gilded Age Holiday Tea," our signature holiday event! Be transported back to a slower, gentler time in Gallery 53’s Indianna Room, located in our historic Romanesque and Renaissance Revival Style Building built in 1894!
Sit and sip tea around beautifully decorated tables as you sample a selection of savory treats. As you enjoy the refreshments, Christina Volpe, Curator of The Barnes Museum will enlighten us on Victorian Era Holiday Tea customs and etiquette.
Our Gilded Age Holiday Tea promises to be a fun, relaxing, AND interesting event. Don’t miss this respite from the hustle and bustle of the holidays – reserve your space now!
Space is limited, purchase your ticket NOW!
Sit and sip tea around beautifully decorated tables as you sample a selection of savory treats. As you enjoy the refreshments, Christina Volpe, Curator of The Barnes Museum will enlighten us on Victorian Era Holiday Tea customs and etiquette.
Our Gilded Age Holiday Tea promises to be a fun, relaxing, AND interesting event. Don’t miss this respite from the hustle and bustle of the holidays – reserve your space now!
Space is limited, purchase your ticket NOW!
PRESENTED BY CHRISTINA VOLPE, MA, Curator, The Barnes Museum
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Christina Volpe is an esteemed historian and curator specializing in the captivating era of the Gilded Age. With a focus on Connecticut's role in the second industrial revolution and the material culture of the time, Volpe's expertise stems from her degrees in archaeology and classics from the American University of Rome and an MA in public history from Central Connecticut State University. Her previous roles include serving as an assistant curator and archivist for prominent family archives, and she has contributed her knowledge to esteemed institutions such as the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Barnes Museum, where she assumed the role of curator in 2021.
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ABOUT THE BARNES MUSEUM
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Southington’s Barnes Museum is a historic house museum and center for the study of 19th-century material culture and decorative arts, complete with fifteen rooms set in the early 1900s full of original family artifacts and over 1,000 early American pressed glass goblets on display in the conservatory.
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