With the new renovation of Farm House Museum, University Museums assistant curator of collections and education, Adrienne Gennett, will host Arts and Crafts Movement in the Midwest lecture Thursday at 2 p.m.

“We just opened a totally new and revamped Farm House,” Gennett said.

The renovations in the Farm House Museum lasted the entire fall 2014 semester and it has just been reopened in January.

Some of the renovations include new non-colonial wallpaper, new furniture in the dining room and the removal of extra china and place settings. The library has remained the same with the same furniture from when Charles Curtiss lived there in 1898.

“His [Charles Curtiss’] library is really focused on him and he has a piece of worn Croft furniture in there that was given to him by students,” Gennett said. “That [Croft furniture] is very much a piece of American furniture.”

At the time Curtiss had been traveling to Europe and so he was exposed to a lot of the new and different type of art and design and decoration. This new type of art differs from the Victorian style because it is more plain and simple.

In the middle of the 19^th century the arts and crafts movement originated. The movement began in England and then moved to America around the 20^th century. The style slowly changed from very decorated and detailed style to more plain, simple and less detailed style.

“Before the renovation we had a much more Victorian style furniture in the dining room,” Gennett said.

The lecture is meant to celebrate the new renovation of the museum, which took the whole semester. The theme of celebration is also apparent in many of the events that University Museums is hosting because this is the 40th year that University Museums has been on Iowa State’s campus.