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historically evolved, the museum building should also, if possible, express its 

 purpose to the eye. In a generalized way, a vertical surface of wood or stone, 

 pierced by a succession of windows, too extended or too large to be construed as 

 intended for domestic illumination, and unnecessary in a court house, an armory, 

 a state house, a store, or a theatre, and given some distinction by details of con- 



I IG. 4.— American Museum of Natural History. 



struction, would usually be interpreted as a museum of nature or industry. A 

 lower building with ample skylights and a probably more ornate treatment, would 

 be regarded as a museum of art. Numerous exceptions to any such generalized 

 expressions occur to everyone, but no matter to what extent the department store 

 or the concert hall, libraries, or university buildings imitate one or the other, the 

 idea of a more or less long, rectangular space with abundance of light entering 



Fig. 



-Provincial Museum, Hanover. 



from the sides, and the idea of a similar space with light descending into it from 

 above, are associated properly with the museum building. That such a design 

 obtains in fairs, expositions, crystal palaces, cattle shows, and menageries, does 

 not disturb this propriety, as all such exhibits are in the nature of temporary or 

 perverted museums. 



