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Period room entrance hall from the 18th century Van Rensselaer Manor House originally located in Albany, New York - now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.

A period room is a display that represents the interior design and decorative art of a particular historical social setting usually in a museum. Though it may incorporate elements of an individual real room that once existed somewhere, it is usually by its nature a composite and fictional piece. Period rooms at encyclopedic museums may represent different countries and cultures, while those at historic house museums may represent different eras of the same structure. As with the glamorization of luxury in costume drama, this can be considered as a conservative genre that traditionally privileges Eurocentric elite views.

In the 21st century, the focus has shifted toward using period rooms in new ways or in diversifying them.

References

  1. Craven, Wayne (2009). Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-393-06754-5.
  2. "What are period rooms, really? –– Minneapolis Institute of Art". new.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  3. "Reconsidering the period room as a museum-made object". OUPblog. 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  4. "Representing the Complicated History of American Interiors". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  5. Loos, Ted (2013-02-21). "Setting a Place for History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  6. Migan, Darla (2021-11-15). "Period Rooms Usually Glorify the Aristocracy. With Its New Afrofuturist Room, the Met's Approach Is Different". Artnet News. Retrieved 2022-02-14.

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