Episode (M): Gallery 742
the memory palace
Nate DiMeo
4.8 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2015
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A special episode of the Memory Palace commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to coincide with the opening of Rockefeller-Worsham Dressing Room in Gallery 742 of The American Wing and with Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age, an exhibition open now through May 1st, 2016.
This piece is ideally consumed on site, in Gallery 742 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Written and Produced by Nate DiMeo of [The Memory Palace.](thememorypalace.us)
Musical score by Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf.
Executive Producer, Limor Tomer, General Manager of Concerts & Lectures, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| 0:00.0 | This is the memory palace, I'm Nate Demetow. |
| 0:03.5 | And before you listen to this episode, I'm going to suggest you don't. |
| 0:08.0 | At least not right now. |
| 0:10.0 | Let me explain. |
| 0:11.3 | I've received a commission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to create this episode. |
| 0:16.1 | They are opening a new gallery in the American Wing. |
| 0:18.8 | If you've been to the Met, you may have wandered through a series of rooms downstairs. |
| 0:23.0 | Each one is set up with furniture and art from different eras. |
| 0:26.8 | It's kind of magical, actually. |
| 0:28.5 | Anyway, for the first time in decades, they have installed a new one of those rooms. |
| 0:32.6 | It's really something. |
| 0:34.5 | They've recreated a specific dressing room from a specific woman of the Guilded Age in New York. |
| 0:40.9 | The room is open right now, along with an exhibition called Artistic Furniture of the Guilded |
| 0:45.3 | Age. |
| 0:46.3 | That exhibit runs through May 1st, but the room, which is Gallery 742, the Worship |
| 0:52.5 | Rockefeller dressing room on your map, will be there forever. |
| 0:57.8 | And you will be able to listen to a memory palace episode about that room and the woman |
| 1:02.4 | who got dressed in that room forever, essentially. |
| 1:06.2 | And that is this episode. |
| 1:07.4 | So maybe don't listen to it right now. |
| 1:09.8 | If you live in New York, maybe press pause, maybe hop on the sixth train, and go stand |
| 1:14.0 | in that room, then unpause, or maybe save it for that trip you're planning to this city. |
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