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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



cornico and window sills are of sandstone. For the interior cast-iron 

 columns and beams arc employed, covered throuohout with terra 

 cotta and siliceous marl. The floor is made of xylopal (sawdust with 

 white cement), supplied by Kiihl & Miethe, in Hamburg, which is 

 applied moist upon the surface of a concrete foundation; it has a 

 yellow tint and is elastic. In both halls and in some of the other 

 rooms terrazzo combined with linoleum is employed. As shown in 

 tig. 120, which represents a room in the second story, the interior 

 decoration is simple except for the capitals, etc., which are more richly 

 ornamented; ceilings and walls painted with light lime color. There 

 is steam heating and no ventilating apparatus. 



The building cost $6.50 for each cubic meter of built space; the 

 foundation, $5-4,500, or $13.50 for each square meter, there being 

 approximately 3,900 square meters. The new fixtures cost $14,000. 



Fli;. lis. — Provincial Mu^emll. Ilanovur, (itTiiiany. 



I take these details from the readable and comprehensive description 

 b}" the architect in the Zeitsclirift fur ArchiteMur und Ingenieurtoei^en, 

 1902, Part I, 18 half pages, with four plates and five text figures, 

 quarto. 



For a provincial museum this is a most noticeable work and much 

 may be learned from it. The building had to serve for collections of 

 all kinds, for art and science, ecclesiastical antiquities, mediaeval art 

 objects, sculptures, paintings, coins, ethnography, archeology, zoology, 

 paleontology, botany, mineralogy, etc., and contains also as a con- 

 spicuous exhibit the so-called "Guelph" museum, which is held in 

 trust by the joint house of Brunswick-Lime burg. It was necessary in 

 designing the building to make it meet the most varied needs, and on 

 that account the architect imitated famous models, avoiding, however, 

 above all things, iusuflicient lighting, which is so often found. All 



