The museum, a manual of the housing and care of art collections, by Margaret Talbot Jackson. (1917)
Jackson, Margaret Talbot · Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 38
This is undoubtedly due to thefact that our American museums have been copiedmore or less from European museums, and Euro-pean museums have been largely adaptations ofpalaces for museum purposes. Thus, for instance,few buildings have more grand staircases thanthe Louvre, but that is because the… … THE ARCHITECTURAL PLAN 21 tectural feature in these staircases. One of theworst examples of this fault is in the KaiserFriedrich .Museum in Berlin. As we have saidelsewhere, the museum is so situated that it cannever grow. Under the circumstances one wouldexpect every available inch of space to be…
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