Lincoln (Neb.) - Oct. 1, 1998 - A Lilliputian world is on display at the new Kruger Gallery at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln.
The gallery, on the first floor of Architecture Hall, 10th and R streets, was dedicated last week and houses a $500,000 collection of thousands of miniature historical furnishings.
The Eloise Kruger Charitable Trust donated $1.5 million to the NU College of Architecture last year. An educational resource for students of interior design to study historic furnishings and interior architecture, the collection is unlike any that exists outside of the Chicago Art Institute and the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.
The gallery is named for Eloise Andrews Kruger of Lincoln, who formerly attended the university and died in 1995. The collection consists of one-12th scale furniture that represents historic periods or a particular historic style.
Cecil Steward, dean of architecture, said, "Mrs. Kruger had a very discriminating eye about quality and particular styles of design furnishings. What we have are historically correct models of a variety of styles and periods. It will augment the teaching we do because the history is a definite part of the curriculum." Some of the pieces are exact replicas of furniture in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and were collected by Kruger over 40 years.
"The pieces represent high style and high design and become of interest to architecture and interior design students," Steward said. The gift will be used to assist in curating the collection, support of the interior design program and providing permanent storage and student scholarships.
The gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through
Friday; admission is free.
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