If You Have to Be a Floor


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Description:

This episode is best experienced in gallery 719 in The American Wing. If you can’t visit the Museum in person, you might want to take a look at the Ballroom at Gadsby’s Tavern, Alexandria, Virginia (1792–93).

Via http://thememorypalace.us/2017/06/if-you-have-to-be-a-floor-the-met-residency-episode-6/