Period room

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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. Side Chair MET DT2511.jpg
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 GlasgowTenementHouse-stove.jpg
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). 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. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  5. ↑ Krämer, Stefan (2024). Period Rooms. Von Zeitreisen und imaginierten Begegnungen im Museum[Period Rooms. About Time Travels and Imagined Encounters in Museums] (in German). 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". Artnet News. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
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