events
Wealth & Worldliness: The Gibson Family Paintings Collection
Join Ed Gordon, GHM Programs Director, for a tour focused on select portraits, landscapes, and copies of Old Master European paintings located on the Museum's first and second floors. How did the Gibson family collect these artworks? Why did they choose to display them as they did? Highlighting artists such as Chester Harding, William Morris Hunt, and Samuel T. Coleman, the tour dives deep into the meaning and significance of various paintings in the family's collection.
November 7, 3:00 p.m.
$15 General Admission | $10 Members (Join Here!) | $12 Students and Seniors
Register here!
Join Ed Gordon, GHM Programs Director, for a tour focused on select portraits, landscapes, and copies of Old Master European paintings located on the Museum's first and second floors. How did the Gibson family collect these artworks? Why did they choose to display them as they did? Highlighting artists such as Chester Harding, William Morris Hunt, and Samuel T. Coleman, the tour dives deep into the meaning and significance of various paintings in the family's collection.
November 7, 3:00 p.m.
$15 General Admission | $10 Members (Join Here!) | $12 Students and Seniors
Register here!
Charlie Gibson’s Queer Boston
Explore the Gibson House and the gay subculture of 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 Boston's LGBTQ history. Read more about Charlie here.
This tour is offered on the first Thursday of every month at 6:00 p.m.
November 4, and December 2
$15 General Admission | $10 Members (Join Here!) | $12 Students and Seniors
Register here!
Explore the Gibson House and the gay subculture of 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 Boston's LGBTQ history. Read more about Charlie here.
This tour is offered on the first Thursday of every month at 6:00 p.m.
November 4, and December 2
$15 General Admission | $10 Members (Join Here!) | $12 Students and Seniors
Register here!
A Cultivated Friendship: Based on letters between Louis Bromfield and Edith Wharton
Created and performed by John Dennis Anderson and Karen Vuranch
Two Pulitzer-Prize-winning authors—American expatriates in France in the 1930s—of different generations and different social circles. What topic would bind them in a close friendship? Gardening. “A Cultivated Friendship” is a performance of selected letters of Louis Bromfield (John Dennis Anderson) and Edith Wharton (Karen Vuranch), edited and published by Daniel Bratton in Yrs, Ever Affly: The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield. Despite their thirty-four-year age difference, Wharton and Bromfield shared an intense love of gardens. This mutual passion created a deep friendship, further enhanced by their shared profession of writing and shared frustration at the business of writing. This 50-minute performance will be followed by a Q&A with the actors.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
7:00 p.m.-8:15 p.m., via Zoom
$10 Members (Join Here!) | $12 Non-members
Register here!
Created and performed by John Dennis Anderson and Karen Vuranch
Two Pulitzer-Prize-winning authors—American expatriates in France in the 1930s—of different generations and different social circles. What topic would bind them in a close friendship? Gardening. “A Cultivated Friendship” is a performance of selected letters of Louis Bromfield (John Dennis Anderson) and Edith Wharton (Karen Vuranch), edited and published by Daniel Bratton in Yrs, Ever Affly: The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield. Despite their thirty-four-year age difference, Wharton and Bromfield shared an intense love of gardens. This mutual passion created a deep friendship, further enhanced by their shared profession of writing and shared frustration at the business of writing. This 50-minute performance will be followed by a Q&A with the actors.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
7:00 p.m.-8:15 p.m., via Zoom
$10 Members (Join Here!) | $12 Non-members
Register here!
"Read the Room" Book Club
The Gibson House Museum and the Nichols House Museum are pleased to announce the 2021-22 season of "Read the Room," our book club inspired by the literary salons of the nineteenth century. We welcome both our familiar friends and those new to the museums to join us for group discussion about the Victorian world and its connections to the contemporary moment. Each month’s book selection will reflect some aspect of the museums. Participants will be provided with a list of discussion questions the week prior to the event, and each event will highlight particular objects or spaces at the host museum that connect to the book. Some programs will take place on site; others will happen virtually, so that we can welcome everyone to an experience that feels comfortable for them.
Space is limited, and advanced registration is required. Registration is free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members. For non-members, registration is $12 per meeting or $45 for the entire season.
We’re thrilled to offer a very special joint membership in conjunction with the book club: join both museums for $60 (a savings of $35) and receive free access to the book club as well as member benefits at both museums!
2021-2022 Season
The Gibson House Museum and the Nichols House Museum are pleased to announce the 2021-22 season of "Read the Room," our book club inspired by the literary salons of the nineteenth century. We welcome both our familiar friends and those new to the museums to join us for group discussion about the Victorian world and its connections to the contemporary moment. Each month’s book selection will reflect some aspect of the museums. Participants will be provided with a list of discussion questions the week prior to the event, and each event will highlight particular objects or spaces at the host museum that connect to the book. Some programs will take place on site; others will happen virtually, so that we can welcome everyone to an experience that feels comfortable for them.
Space is limited, and advanced registration is required. Registration is free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members. For non-members, registration is $12 per meeting or $45 for the entire season.
We’re thrilled to offer a very special joint membership in conjunction with the book club: join both museums for $60 (a savings of $35) and receive free access to the book club as well as member benefits at both museums!
2021-2022 Season
- Wed, Dec. 8, 6:00-7:30 p.m., location TBD: North and South (1854) by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Wed, Feb 9, 6:00-7:30 p.m., via Zoom: Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte
- Wed, April 6, 6:00-7:30 p.m., via Zoom: Special "Read the Room" meeting for Poetry Month! Lyrics of Life and Love (1904), William Stanley Braithwaite
- Wed, June 15, 6:00-7:30 p.m., location TBD: Deephaven (1877) by Sarah Orne Jewett