Yin Yu Tang Home Museum Report

Visiting the PEM museum and discovering Gardner Pingree house and the Yin Yu Tang house, I learned many things throughout my whole experience. Going through two different houses and contrasting both of the houses seemed very easy because both of the house were from two different parts of the world. The Gardener's Pingree House was from U.S.A and the Yin Yu Tang House was from China.
The Yin Yu Tang house was a Chinese house whose owner was a late dynasty merchant. The house was originally located in the southeastern China. This house did not belong to a famous person or a member of an imperial household, and so it allows the visitor at the museum to have a perfect vision of an average Chinese family's home. the house was carefully dismantled and its construction analyzed …show more content…
It was owned by john and Sarah Gardner, he lived in the house with his family until him and his family were murdered in the house in April 1830. The house is a three story brick, with a rectangular shape. The trim of the house is made of marble. In the Inside of the house looks as if the owner of the house were very wealthy. The walls were printed with expansive wallpaper from China. The owner of the house had designed the house with vases from China. The room were big the kitchen had a very expansive oven. The owners wanted to show people they were wealthy so they designed their home in a way where no one could afford the types of furniture they kept in their home.
My favorite part of visiting the museum was going into the Pingree House because the house looked as if it was a wealthy modern home. Seeing this house made me feel as if there were not just poor people back in the days but there were people who made a good amount of money to live a healthy lifestyle. Looking through the house made me realize that back then people sent a lot of money on expensive furniture to show the public how good their homes