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The Norwegian Room is in a folkstyle-inpsired architecture, giving the effect of being inside a person's 18th century house. The instructional front of the Room portrays a bedroom area, decorative flower painting known as rosmaling abundantly appears in this area.
The student area features a fireplace, a sloped ceiling, and various artifacts and decorations that reveal adaptations to environmental conditions in the far northern latitude.
Explore the rooms below to try and identify architectural features or conceptual design elements that are shared with the featured room here. Think about the ways in which different cultures employ similar solutions to public and private spaces.
