VICTORIAN GARDEN TEA & PLANT SALE
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May 25, 2024 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+ |
Join us as we explore the enchanting world of Victorian gardens with Southington's Barnes Museum curator, Christina Volpe. Her presentation, "Beyond the Walls: Victorian Gardens and Landscapes," will cover how Victorian gardens served as expressions of wealth and status, offering spaces for leisure and socializing. Learn about key design elements, plant selections, and ornamental features that defined Victorian landscapes, and uncover the social significance of these gardens as hubs for entertainment and well-being. We will discuss the historic Barnes Estate gardens and gain insight into the legacy and preservation of Victorian garden design.
Come and celebrate Spring with us! Sit and sip tea around beautifully decorated tables as you sample a selection of savory treats. And take home a little bit of Spring from our Plant Sale featuring beautiful annuals, perennials and house plants!
Space is limited, purchase your ticket NOW!
Come and celebrate Spring with us! Sit and sip tea around beautifully decorated tables as you sample a selection of savory treats. And take home a little bit of Spring from our Plant Sale featuring beautiful annuals, perennials and house plants!
Space is limited, purchase your ticket NOW!
PRESENTED BY CHRISTINA VOLPE, MA, Curator, The Barnes Museum
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
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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