events
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $5
We’re headed behind the scenes, or rather to-the-scenes, of our favorite Greta Gerwig movie, Little Women! Join us virtually to commemorate the anniversary of the film’s release and the movie-magic role the Gibson House Museum played. We'll reveal some of the behind-the-scenes happenings, speak on the Gibson House’s own history, and answer questions from you, our curious audience! What it was like to turn Back Bay into Victorian New York? Did they really light Jo’s skirt on fire in the house? How historically accurate were the Gibson House scenes? Tune in to find out!
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $5
We’re headed behind the scenes, or rather to-the-scenes, of our favorite Greta Gerwig movie, Little Women! Join us virtually to commemorate the anniversary of the film’s release and the movie-magic role the Gibson House Museum played. We'll reveal some of the behind-the-scenes happenings, speak on the Gibson House’s own history, and answer questions from you, our curious audience! What it was like to turn Back Bay into Victorian New York? Did they really light Jo’s skirt on fire in the house? How historically accurate were the Gibson House scenes? Tune in to find out!
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells (1885)
Wednesday, March 10, 2020
6:00-7:30 p.m.
$12 per meeting; free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members (details below)
Location: Virtual, via Zoom
Host: Meghan Gelardi Holmes, Curator, Gibson House Museum
*Register here!
Would Silas Lapham have been accepted into the “in-crowd,” if the decision were up to the Gibsons? In this book club meeting, we will discuss class and Boston society in the nineteenth century using the book and the interiors of the Gibson House Museum as our guide.
Purchase The Rise of Silas Lapham from your local bookstore or online through the local-bookstore network, Bookshop. An ebook version is free through Project Gutenberg.
Book description from Penguin Random House: In his story of one of the millionaire industrialists who flourished in the post-Civil War years, William Dean Howells probes the moral and social conflicts that confront a self-made man trying to crash Boston’s old-guard aristocracy.
About the Book Club
The Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum co-host this book club inspired by the literary salons hosted in the houses’ parlors. We welcome both those new to the museums and our familiar friends.
The book club will meet twice a season for group discussion followed by a tour of the host museum. Participants can expect to read a mix of Victorian-era and contemporary fiction (and even the occasional volume of poetry), and each month’s book selection will reflect some aspect or theme of the respective museum. Participants will be given 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. Programs will take place virtually for now; participants will be invited to meet on site when it becomes safe to do so.
Space is limited, and advanced registration is required. Registration is free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members and is $12 per meeting for non-members ($22 for two consecutive meetings).
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! Register and sign up for membership here.
Wednesday, March 10, 2020
6:00-7:30 p.m.
$12 per meeting; free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members (details below)
Location: Virtual, via Zoom
Host: Meghan Gelardi Holmes, Curator, Gibson House Museum
*Register here!
Would Silas Lapham have been accepted into the “in-crowd,” if the decision were up to the Gibsons? In this book club meeting, we will discuss class and Boston society in the nineteenth century using the book and the interiors of the Gibson House Museum as our guide.
Purchase The Rise of Silas Lapham from your local bookstore or online through the local-bookstore network, Bookshop. An ebook version is free through Project Gutenberg.
Book description from Penguin Random House: In his story of one of the millionaire industrialists who flourished in the post-Civil War years, William Dean Howells probes the moral and social conflicts that confront a self-made man trying to crash Boston’s old-guard aristocracy.
About the Book Club
The Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum co-host this book club inspired by the literary salons hosted in the houses’ parlors. We welcome both those new to the museums and our familiar friends.
The book club will meet twice a season for group discussion followed by a tour of the host museum. Participants can expect to read a mix of Victorian-era and contemporary fiction (and even the occasional volume of poetry), and each month’s book selection will reflect some aspect or theme of the respective museum. Participants will be given 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. Programs will take place virtually for now; participants will be invited to meet on site when it becomes safe to do so.
Space is limited, and advanced registration is required. Registration is free for Nichols House Museum and Gibson House Museum members and is $12 per meeting for non-members ($22 for two consecutive meetings).
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! Register and sign up for membership here.
Wheel Women on the Page
Image courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, Phillips Library.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
6:30-7:30 p.m.
$8 members, $10 nonmembers
Victorian "wheel women" were a new generation of independent females mobilized by the bicycle. Along with the freedom this new invention brought women came clever sales pitches. Join the Gibson House as we host art-design historian and Peabody Essex Museum Librarian Sarah Bilotta in the exploration of images that ruled bicycle advertising during the Victorian era. Sarah will discuss advertising ephemera, give you a peek at the images she studies, and reveal who is notably missing from these circulated images.
Sarah Bilotta (she/her) is a design historian, collections cataloger, and writer. She serves as Assistant Cataloging Librarian for the Peabody Essex Museum and Library and Research Fellow for the Museum of Russian Icons. Her research focuses on depictions of women in American and British advertising 1890-1945.
Registration coming soon
6:30-7:30 p.m.
$8 members, $10 nonmembers
Victorian "wheel women" were a new generation of independent females mobilized by the bicycle. Along with the freedom this new invention brought women came clever sales pitches. Join the Gibson House as we host art-design historian and Peabody Essex Museum Librarian Sarah Bilotta in the exploration of images that ruled bicycle advertising during the Victorian era. Sarah will discuss advertising ephemera, give you a peek at the images she studies, and reveal who is notably missing from these circulated images.
Sarah Bilotta (she/her) is a design historian, collections cataloger, and writer. She serves as Assistant Cataloging Librarian for the Peabody Essex Museum and Library and Research Fellow for the Museum of Russian Icons. Her research focuses on depictions of women in American and British advertising 1890-1945.
Registration coming soon
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Friday, April 30, 2021
2:00-3:30 p.m.
$15, limited to 15 people
Join us for a walking tour highlighting Victorian Back Bay design, from Beacon Street row houses to the great public buildings of Copley Square. The tour will be led by architectural historian and Gibson House Museum Programs Director Ed Gordon.
Offered in conjunction with Boston Design Week
Tour begins at the Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon St., Boston and will end in Copley Square. Participants are required to wear a mask and practice social distancing.
2:00-3:30 p.m.
$15, limited to 15 people
Join us for a walking tour highlighting Victorian Back Bay design, from Beacon Street row houses to the great public buildings of Copley Square. The tour will be led by architectural historian and Gibson House Museum Programs Director Ed Gordon.
Offered in conjunction with Boston Design Week
Tour begins at the Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon St., Boston and will end in Copley Square. Participants are required to wear a mask and practice social distancing.
More events coming soon.