by Jon Lackman | 22 February 2008 | Museums
According to The Art Newspaper:
the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) has decided to quietly sell its Rockefeller Rooms to make way for a modernisation of its building on upper Fifth Avenue. The two period rooms from the Manhattan townhouse of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller have been the museum’s signature attractions for 70 years. The dressing room is likely to go the Metropolitan Museum which is currently reinstalling its suite of American period rooms, expected to reopen in January 2009. According to a spokeswoman, the MCNY’s reconfiguration will consolidate offices on the fourth and fifth floors, displacing the Rockefeller Rooms; ceiling heights on the three lower exhibition floors preclude reinstallation.
