Nationality Rooms
add photosThe Nationality Rooms are expressions of timeless human values. In these rooms themes are rendered in wood and glass, iron and stone, fabric, color, and words. Inspiration flows from such varied sources as Athens in the time of Pericles, a palace hall in Beijing's Forbidden City, an ancient monastic Indian university, flowers that grow in Czech and Slovak valleys, a 6th-century oratory from Ireland's Golden Age, an Asante temple courtyard in Ghana, London's House of Commons, and the intimate hearth-centered life of America's early New Englanders.
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At the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning you can compare New England Colonial architectural style with French Empire, Japanese, Indian, Austrian, Russian, Byzantine, Chinese Empire, first-century Israeli, or Irish Romanesque. Twenty-six different nations are represented in the Nationality Rooms Tours. Funded by gifts from Pittsburgh’s ethnic communities, the Nationality Rooms are functioning classrooms in which your family can tour “around the world” with a university student guide who has been trained to adapt the tour to different ages and interests.
Younger children enjoy patting the laughing lion in the Chinese Room or identifying the fairy tales depicted in the German Room. The gift shop carries many unusual publications and an array of international gifts.
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