Nationality Rooms

African Heritage Room

1989 - 18th Century Asante Temple

Dr. Laurence Glasco

Right Bas-relief - Sacrifice

Left Bas-relief - God’s power over man

Below Board - Sankofa birds - learn from the past to prepare for the future

Armernian Room

1988 - 10th-12th Century Monastic - Cathedral of Zvardnots

Yertik - Illumination and fumes from oil

301A.D. - First nation to adopt Christianity as state religion

404AD - Armenian alphabet

April 24, 1915 - Armenian martyrs and survivors that exodus

Aram Khatchaturyan - Saber Dance

Austrian Room

1996 - 18th Century Baroque - Haydn Hall in Schloss Esterhazy

Metamorphous Ceiling - The Arrival of Day → Marriage of Cupid and Psyche → Arrival of Night

Crystal chandeliers - Vienna's Schoenbrunn Palace

Marie Antoinette + Joseph Haydn

"Let others wage war; let you, fortunate Austria, marry!"

Chinese Room

1939 - 18th Century Chinese Empire

Golden Imperial Dragon of the Universe - Five Clawed not Four

Eight Virtues
Confucius - “Confucius the Great Teacher”

Twelve Qualities of an Educated Man on chairs by table

Four Divisions of Chinese Literature - against wall

"Teach by inspiring gradually and steadily."

"Humility of Mind goes with Loftiness of Character".

Czechoslovak Room**

1939 - Folk

Ceiling is flowers found throughout

Structure meant to look like farmhouse

Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, President-Liberator of Czechoslovakia

"Truth Conquers"

Charles IV and Charles University

Early American Room

1938 - 17th Century New England House - Klimcheck and Bowman and Clapp

Bricks and Lumber is 200 years old from New England

Pennsylvania-Kentucky Flintlock Muzzle-Loading Rifle

Martha Jane Poe → E. Maxine Bruhns

English Room

1952- 16th century Tudor Style - 2nd House of Commons

4 real corbels and 2 not

Andrew Mellon and William Pitt

VR Fireplace

French Room

1943 - Late 18th century French Empire - Napoleon

Greece, Italy, and Roman Empires

Louvre and Versailles

German Room

1938 - 16th century German Renaissance