Gilman, Benjamin Ives, 1852-1933, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Cambridge, Printed by order of the trustees of the Museum at the Riverside Press · leaf 245
should give museum directors seriously tothink; and they should ask themselves, especially thosein charge of natural history collections, whether methodsof display and lighting more akin to those employed inaquaria — for instance the alcove group system with over-head lighting — might not add… … ao GLARE IN MUSEUM GALLERIES 215 fragments of interiors, or ethnological specimens. Accord-ing to the present scheme these two corridor suites wouldbe lighted from a continuous skylight just outside theparapet of the ambulatory on the roof, through two seriesof wells. The wells lighting the upper…
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