Museum Chat Live! E604 - Victorian Tweets: Contradictions Performed

Welcome to a special 3-part mini-series examining the Museum's exhibit Victorian Tweets and the people who inspired it: the Victorians. Victorian Tweets juxtaposes daily Victorian life found in newspapers, diaries, letters, and ephemera against the modern Twitterverse. The archival documents found in the exhibit and included in the special podcast mini-series are interesting, quirky, mundane, snappy, rude, and pointless: just like Twitter. As modern, progressive people of the 21st century we enjoy a certain distance from the romanticized and contradictory Victorian period but are we really that different from our Victorian ancestors? On this third and final episode of this special podcast series, we’ll finally tell you what we think about our post-modernist status as non-Victorians. Victorian Tweets runs through to March, 2021 at the St. Catharines Museum & Welland Canals Centre, which is open to the public by donation. View the virtual edition of the exhibition visit www.stcatharinesmuseumblog.com