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The Brooklyn Museum

Exhibitions: Decorative Arts Galleries and Period Rooms




Period Room from John D. Rockefeller House

Long-Term Installation
Decorative Arts Galleries, 4th Floor

Period Rooms
The Brooklyn Museum collection includes a number of complete period rooms. In order to preserve these premier examples of American interior design and decoration, these rooms were disassembled and moved from their original locations up and down the East Coast, then reassembled and furnished for display in the galleries.

Exhibition Highlights

Period Room: Cane Acres Plantation House Period Room: Cupola House Period Room: Milligan House Period Room: John D. Rockefeller House Period Room: Trippe House Period Room: The Worgelt Apartment

Schenck Houses
Nicholas Schenck Jan Martense Schenck