Themes in American History

While I was exploring “The Lost Museum” I developed my knowledge of the US and the NYC history from the virtual exhibits. P.T. Barnum has created the space where people could see lots of exhibits that inform us what was going on during the era of 1800s throughout the museum. This website gave us the chance to visit the Barnum museum once again and I believe this webpage is great in the way to navigate us the whole museum virtually.

There are three floors in the museum and I enjoyed exploring the whole sections, and the one place that caught my attention the most was the lecture room on the third floor. In the room, there is a monitor and you can view the lecture films “fire” and “etiquette” on the screen. I viewed the film on the etiquette, and I learned that the early nineteenth century was the time when the etiquette became important in the society. People with better manner was thought as people from better class, and it played a huge role in the republican society during the era. It was unavailable to pick the pictures from the film slide and the only picture I could get from the archive was the displaying picture, however from the film and the articles from the archive, you can get a lot of information about the role of etiquette in 1800s.

Tags: Etiquette, P.T. Barnum, The Lost Museum

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