The Morse Museum's Friday Brown Bag Matinee Winter Series will feature a focus on World's Fairs with films featuring three World's Fairs that each featured Louis Comfort Tiffany works. The free Friday screenings comes back for its Winter Series beginning January 25th with a special screening of Expo—Magic of the White City, a documentary on the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The film will be shown in two parts on January 25 and February 1. On February 8 and 15, a screening The World’s Greatest Fair: Saint Louis 1904 will continue the World's Fair theme. The series will conclude February 22 with the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair. The films will begin at noon each Friday in the McKean Pavilion located just across the parking lot from the museum.
The film series also has a related reading list for those who want to learn more. The list for the winter series contains The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson and Beyond the Ice Cream Cone: The Whole Scoop on Food at the 1904 World’s Fair by Pamela J. Vaccaro.
