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What a museum room can tell you
Notice which parts of a setting are historic and how the museum presents them.
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A historic interior
At the Damascus Room, follow the decorated surfaces with your eyes from the visitor opening. The room is a historic interior arranged for museum viewing, with a changed opening. Its woodwork comes from a winter reception room, although the original house has not been securely identified.
A new court made through older craft
The Astor Court was built for The Met. Craftspeople from China made its wooden, stone and ceramic elements, and it opened in 1981. Look at the relationship between a frame and the view beyond it. Its frames and patterned openings were made to give you these changing views of the garden.
Carry the room number with you
Use the room number to return to a view you want to see again. The Temple of Dendur is in Gallery 131, the Damascus Room in Gallery 461 and the Astor Court in Gallery 217.