Join us in the museum’s stunning Normanby Room to discover the world of salon culture in Georgian Richmond. Event contributed to Richmond's annual Georgian Festival (GeorgeFest).
Step back in time to the height of Richmond's social season for this introduction to the tips and tricks of sociable talk in the eighteenth century. Why did Georgians seek out conversation? How did handheld objects encourage personal connection before the age of social media? At this interactive event, you'll learn how Georgians shook up the rigid rules of the aristocracy through face-to-face conversation and you'll experience, firsthand, soirees styles from the 1760s and 1770s.