The Etiquette Manual sets to unveil how The Metropolitan Museum of Art controls the narrative of good citizenship through taste- with the selection, categorization, and presentation of artifacts and paintings. The research connects the Met’s historical narrative to the proliferation of etiquette manuals in the 19th century in New York City through the idea of civility. To manifest it, a video presents one chapter from an etiquette manual, the dinner party, and constructs its narrative through collages made solely from artifacts exhibited in the museum. As a result, it attempts to portray the control the Met has on ideas of colonialism, gender, body, extraction, and sovereignty, and how it preserves them until today in a spectacle of exquisite taste.