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.
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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]

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