New York Museum Gracefully Deaccessions Rockefeller Rooms
Published: April 2, 2009
NEW YORK—The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) is donating period rooms that once graced the West 54th Street townhouse of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Newspaper reports.
The bedrooms are going to the Virginia museum, while the Met will get the dressing room and its contents. The reconstructed rooms, prime examples of the Aesthetic Movement in interior design, have been on display for some 70 years at the MCNY, but the New York institution had to deaccession them because they were too high for the museum’s recently renovated exhibition spaces. MCNY director Susan Henshaw Jones said that the “three museums collaborated and found a way to ensure that these treasures are preserved and interpreted for future generations.” She pointed out that the deaccession was permitted in the deed giving the rooms to the museum, and she added that the MCNY paid to dismantle the rooms, while the recipient institutions contributed to the shipping costs. |
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