10 Facts About Nationality Rooms

Nationality Rooms are a group of 31 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning depicting and donated by the national and ethnic groups that helped build the city of Pittsburgh.

The Nationality Rooms serve in a vigorous program of intercultural involvement and exchange in which the original organizing committees for the rooms remain as participants and which includes a program of annual student scholarship to facilitate study abroad.

The Nationality Rooms are available daily for public tours as long as the particular room is not being used for a class or other university function.

The room's arches, built of Indiana limestone, make this the heaviest of the Nationality Rooms, weighing 22 tons, and required the second floor beneath the room to be reinforced in order to support its weight.

Austrian Nationality Rooms Room represents the 18th-century era of the Austrian Empire during its age of enlightenment under Empress Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II and incorporates Baroque elements of the Haydnsaal in Schloss Esterhazy at Eisenstadt where Joseph Haydn served as Kapellmeister from 1766 to 1778.

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Japanese Nationality Rooms Room celebrates traditional Japanese carpentry and woodcraft, evoking the mid-18th century minka which were houses of the non-ruling classes of Japan.

Korean Nationality Rooms Room is based on the 14th century Myeong-nyundang, the main building at the Sungkyunkwan in Seoul which served as Korea's royal academy during the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties from 918 to 1897.

The Philippine Nationality Rooms Room was designed by Pittsburgh architect Warren Bulseco and Philippine architect Melinda Minerva “Popi” Laudico.

Nationality Rooms reconstructed tools used in his childhood home in Sweden.

Turkish Nationality Rooms Room was based on a bas odasi, or main room, of a typical Turkish house or hayat with an outer gallery and a side iwan.