New Perspectives on Old Rooms: The Reinstallation of the 18th Century Period Rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amelia Peck, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Join the Forum
Mini-exhibit:
Program: Presentation:
de Young Museum

Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Enter from Level B1 of the parking garage; pedestrians enter from the concourse side of Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive and down the steps across the street from the museum’s main entrance.

Upcoming Programs

Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation: Remembering, Misremembering, and Forgetting. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.
Unnamed Figures: Black Presence in the Early American NorthEmelie Gevalt, American Folk Art Museum
Armband, Joseph Richardson Jr., Philadelphia, 1792-95
Silver at the 250th: Craft, Commerce, and the Making of a NationRichard Dietrich
Easy chair, Thomas Affleck (frame) and Nicholas Bernard and Martin Jugiez (carvers), Philadelphia, 1770, commissioned by John Cadwalader
America 250 and the Art of a New Nation: Philadelphia, Independence, and the WorldRichard Dietrich
TuesdaySep 15
The Golden Age of Illustration and the American DreamCurt DiCamillo, American Ancestors
Dish with Strainer, 
Jingdezhen, China, ca. 1823
Virginians and Their Dishes: Ceramic Highlights from the Greater Williamsburg Area and the People Who Owned ThemAngelika Keutner, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Sweetmeat Stand
, England, 1760-65
Colorless lead glass; gilded base metal (ormolu)
Sparkling Reflections: Stories from Colonial Williamsburg’s Glass CollectionAngelika Keutner, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Great House, showing Casino and Allee, north side.
Castle HillSusan Hill Dolan, Ipswitch, MA