Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room

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Before Yesterday We Could Fly:
Visit the Met’s Afrofuturist Period Room and learn about Seneca Village.
A Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, titled “Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room,” highlights the time period when Seneca Village, a thriving community of predominantly Black and Irish landowners and tenants, occupied a part of what is now Central Park.
The exhibition explores the future of Seneca Village, had the community survived. It was created by the museum's curatorial team and lead curator, Hollywood production designer Hannah Beachler, who won an Oscar for Black Panther.
Visitors can view the exhibition from two vantage points: a small window and a completely open backside.
“When you look through the window, you’ll see something that the next person won’t, because everyone’s perspectives are different. When you get to the end, though, where the whole structure opens up, visitors are seeing the much wider view, and the perspectives suddenly become the same,” Beachler explained to Architectural Digest.
Ticket Information: This exhibit is free with admission. Entry is by timed ticket or reservation.
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