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 44
must betaken that a corridor outside a gallery does notprove a disagreeable feature on account of crosslight which enters through the doorways. A gal-lery may have the function of a corridor and ismuch more easily arranged and cared for than aregular hallway. Objection has been raised thatin the… … 26 THE MUSEUM this way without gaining something. The objec-tion that passers-by interfere with those who wishto remain and look at the objects is hardly valid.If the visitor can be so easily disturbed he willgain little from his visit. On the other hand, cor-ridors make a museum doubly hard to…
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