Period room

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. Period kitchen in a tenement house museum

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.[1][2] 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.[3] As with the glamorization of luxury in costume drama, this can be considered as a conservative genre that traditionally privileges Eurocentric elite views.[4]

In the 21st century, the focus has shifted toward using period rooms in new ways[5] or in diversifying them.[6]

## References

1. ↑ Craven, Wayne (2009) (in en). Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 119. ISBN 978-0-393-06754-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=1BrBHQfpEcAC&pg=PA119.
2. ↑ "What are period rooms, really? –– Minneapolis Institute of Art". https://new.artsmia.org/stories/what-are-period-rooms-really/.
3. ↑ "Reconsidering the period room as a museum-made object" (in en). 2019-03-21. https://blog.oup.com/2019/03/reconsidering-period-room-museum-made-object/.
4. ↑ "Representing the Complicated History of American Interiors". 8 March 2021. https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/collection-insights/2021/period-rooms-history-of-american-interiors.
5. ↑ Krämer, Stefan (2024) (in German). Period Rooms. Von Zeitreisen und imaginierten Begegnungen im Museum. Germany: Transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-7444-6.
6. ↑ Migan, Darla (2021-11-15). "Period Rooms Usually Glorify the Aristocracy. With Its New Afrofuturist Room, the Met's Approach Is Different" (in en-US). https://news.artnet.com/opinion/met-afrofuturist-period-room-review-2034499.

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