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Museum ideals of purpose and method (1918)

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 262

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eum about four, and so on formore complex schemes, there are three paths which sooneror later must be traversed if all the exhibits are to beinspected. A single line representing the visitors pathhas but two ends; and one of these ends must lie at eachof the triple points, the line being continuous… … Diagram 33 opposite triple point, and to reach the entrance he musttraverse the central wing again, as shown in Diagram 33.It is true that he might then ascend the stairs and visit thenext floor in thecontrary sense; sothat if the exhi-bition space con-sisted of an evennumber of floorsthe visitor…

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