Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 2a Foxon, Connecticut Questions: |
Period Rooms
During the 1920s and 1930s, a renewed national interest
in America's colonial past led art museums to begin
acquiring rooms from historic buildings. These rooms are
called period rooms because they represent a specific period
of history. Museums use rooms like these to display
furnishings (not necessarily from the original house) in a
homelike setting and to illustrate the social customs of the
time.
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