GILDED AGE TEA PARTY
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July 22, 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+ THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! |
Afternoon Tea was a cherished social ritual during the Gilded Age! Upper Class ladies would gather in a parlor around 4PM, eat delicate sandwiches and sip tea to avoid getting faint before dinner. Besides being a reason to visit friends, it was an opportunity to get “gilded up” in your latest tea gown . . . and probably hear some juicy gossip!
Serving afternoon tea evolved into a complex, formal ritual and the etiquette of this ritual was part of the refined American's indoctrination into Society. Enjoy a fascinating presentation by Christina Volpe, Curator of The Barnes Museum as she guides us through the highly structured social intricacies of Tea Etiquette! The event includes:
Be transported back to a slower, gentler time during this informative afternoon in Gallery 53’s Indianna Room, located in our historic Romanesque and Renaissance Revival Style Building built in 1894! Join us!
Space is limited, purchase your ticket NOW to reserve your seat!
Serving afternoon tea evolved into a complex, formal ritual and the etiquette of this ritual was part of the refined American's indoctrination into Society. Enjoy a fascinating presentation by Christina Volpe, Curator of The Barnes Museum as she guides us through the highly structured social intricacies of Tea Etiquette! The event includes:
- an entertaining and educational program
- a fine assortment of teas and treats
- excellent company and conversation
Be transported back to a slower, gentler time during this informative afternoon in Gallery 53’s Indianna Room, located in our historic Romanesque and Renaissance Revival Style Building built in 1894! Join us!
Space is limited, purchase your ticket NOW to reserve your seat!
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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