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Weather experts are predicting a severe dip in temperatures with sleet and possibly snow hitting Ireland

Weather experts are predicting a severe dip in temperatures with sleet and possibly snow hitting Ireland

Weather experts are predicting a severe dip in temperatures with sleet and possibly snow hitting Ireland

IN HIS INTRODUCTION to Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1996), the longest-serving director of the New York museum, the now-retired Philippe de Montebello, notes the popularity of his subject. “Virtually everyone who visits the Museum’s American Wing finds there the opportunity to experience a sense of the way our forebears lived,” he writes. A period room is a museological device that combines architecture, furnishings, decorative art, and functional objects to represent an...