Curator's Tour: Light Up with the Lightner

Lightner Museum Curator Barry Myers conducts monthly tours featuring unique and special treasures of the Museum. The tours are the first Wednesday of each month at 10am and offer guests an intimate encounter with a select few of the Lightner’s eclectic relics.

Inhale knowledge at March’s Curator’s Tour which will highlight the art of tobacco accoutrements and their finery from the turn of the 19^th century to the 1920’s and beyond. Guests will get an in-depth glance of Otto Lightner’s collection of everything tobacco related from art, smoking etiquette, accessories, and the history of this popular past time.

This tour will be a co-lecture given by Lightner Museum Director Robert Harper and Lightner Museum Curator Barry Myers.

We will be approaching the topic of smoking from an artistic perspective only, there will be no smoking at the Lightner Museum.

Donations are appreciated and will be accepted after the tour. The Lightner Museum is a non-profit cultural institution sustained by the generous support of individuals, businesses and sponsors.