events
FEBRUARY
Reimagining Historic House Museums
Book Talk by Kenneth Turino
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
6:00 reception, 6:30 program
$12 members, $15 non-members
Learn how historic house museums across the country are reimagining themselves at this engaging talk by Kenneth C. Turino, co-editor of the new book, Reimagining Historic House Museums. Drawing from innovative organizations across the United States, Reimagining Historic House Museums is an indispensable source of field-tested tools and techniques. It profiles historic sites that are using new models to engage with their communities, adopt creative forms of interpretation and programming, and become more financially sustainable.
Ken Turino is Manager of Community Partnerships and Resource Development at Historic New England; a member of the faculty of Tufts University's Museum Studies Program; Chair of the Leadership in History Awards Program of the American Association for State and Local History, as well as a member of its Historic House Museums Committee; and a member of the advisory council for the American Association of Museums' Museum magazine. He also serves on the Gibson House Museum’s Advisory Council.
Pre-registration is required.
Book Talk by Kenneth Turino
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
6:00 reception, 6:30 program
$12 members, $15 non-members
Learn how historic house museums across the country are reimagining themselves at this engaging talk by Kenneth C. Turino, co-editor of the new book, Reimagining Historic House Museums. Drawing from innovative organizations across the United States, Reimagining Historic House Museums is an indispensable source of field-tested tools and techniques. It profiles historic sites that are using new models to engage with their communities, adopt creative forms of interpretation and programming, and become more financially sustainable.
Ken Turino is Manager of Community Partnerships and Resource Development at Historic New England; a member of the faculty of Tufts University's Museum Studies Program; Chair of the Leadership in History Awards Program of the American Association for State and Local History, as well as a member of its Historic House Museums Committee; and a member of the advisory council for the American Association of Museums' Museum magazine. He also serves on the Gibson House Museum’s Advisory Council.
Pre-registration is required.
Charlie Gibson’s Queer Boston
Friday, February 28, 2020
4:00 p.m.
$10, $8 students & seniors
Explore the Gibson House and early-twentieth-century Boston through Charlie Gibson's eyes! The story of the museum's founder is one of legacy and family history; of the fading grandeur of Victorian-era Boston; and of the role gay men, like Charlie, had in the historic preservation movement. This unique specialty house tour is not to be missed!
This tour is first-come, first-served. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Regular and specialty tours are also available for private groups by appointment. For more information and to arrange a tour, contact info@thegibsonhouse.org.
MARCH
Jan Turnquist as Louisa May Alcott at the Gibson House
Back by popular demand!
A Conversation with Louisa May Alcott
Jan Turnquist, Executive Director, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
6:00 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. program
$12 members, $15 non-members
The Gibson House Museum is honored to receive a return visit from Louisa May Alcott! Portrayed by Jan Turnquist, Alcott will discuss her family life and how she came to write the beloved 1868 novel.
Jan Turnquist has portrayed Miss Alcott across the U.S. and in Japan, where she was invited to the Imperial Palace on the Empress's birthday. She has also performed as Miss Alcott for First Lady Laura Bush. She has been Executive Director of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House for twenty years. Open year-round, the Alcott family home in Concord, Mass., is where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set Little Women. (For more information about Orchard House, visit
louisamayalcott.org/)
Pre-registration is required.
A Conversation with Louisa May Alcott
Jan Turnquist, Executive Director, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
6:00 p.m. reception, 6:30 p.m. program
$12 members, $15 non-members
The Gibson House Museum is honored to receive a return visit from Louisa May Alcott! Portrayed by Jan Turnquist, Alcott will discuss her family life and how she came to write the beloved 1868 novel.
Jan Turnquist has portrayed Miss Alcott across the U.S. and in Japan, where she was invited to the Imperial Palace on the Empress's birthday. She has also performed as Miss Alcott for First Lady Laura Bush. She has been Executive Director of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House for twenty years. Open year-round, the Alcott family home in Concord, Mass., is where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set Little Women. (For more information about Orchard House, visit
louisamayalcott.org/)
Pre-registration is required.
The World of Little Women at the Gibson House
Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
March 11, 18, and 25
$15 general admission/ $12 members
*Pre-registration required
What do Jo March, Louisa May Alcott, and Charlie Gibson have in common? They were all nineteenth-century Massachusetts writers. Learn more about the similarities--and the many differences--in their experiences on this lively tour. In addition to exploring the shared worlds of these real and imagined characters, visitors will hear behind-the-scenes details about the recent filming of Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women here at the Gibson House. The tour visits areas of the house not usually on view.
*Tour is one hour and involves walking up and down five flights of stairs.
*Tours require a minimum of four guests to run. Ticket price will be refunded or transferred to a subsequent tour if a tour is cancelled due to low registration.
Charlie Gibson’s Queer Boston
March 27, 2020
5:30 p.m.
$10, $8 students & seniors
*Pre-registration required
Explore the Gibson House and early-twentieth-century Boston through Charlie Gibson's eyes! The story of the museum's founder is one of legacy and family history; of the fading grandeur of Victorian-era Boston; and of the role gay men, like Charlie, had in the historic preservation movement. This unique specialty house tour is not to be missed!
*Tours require a minimum of four pre-registered guests to run. Ticket price will be refunded or transferred to a subsequent tour if a tour is cancelled due to low registration.
Regular and specialty tours are also available for private groups by appointment. For more information and to arrange a tour, contact info@thegibsonhouse.org.
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