Period room

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

^ Craven, Wayne (2009). Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-393-06754-5.
^ "What are period rooms, really? –– Minneapolis Institute of Art". new.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
^ "Reconsidering the period room as a museum-made object". OUPblog. 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
^ "Representing the Complicated History of American Interiors". www.metmuseum.org. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
^ 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.
^ 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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[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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