Museum ideals : of purpose and method / by Benjamin Ives Gilman.

Main entry:

Gilman, Benjamin Ives, 1852-1933, author.

Title & Author:

Museum ideals : of purpose and method / by Benjamin Ives Gilman.

Publication:

Cambridge, [Mass.] : Riverside Press, 1918.

Description:

xxii, 434 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
At head of title: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
"Printed by order of the Trustees of the Museum at the Riverside Press."
Includes bibliographical references.
On the nature and place of fine art -- Popular education in fine art -- The aims of museums, the ideal of culture -- Growth -- Construction, the ideals of diagonal lighting and radial expansion -- Installation, the ideal of restful inspection -- Exegesis, the ideals of official companionship of interpretative catalogs -- Government, the ideal of composite boards, some general problems.
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Subject:

Museums.
Art museums.
Musées.
museums (institutions)

Added entries:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 90995
Call No.: W8849; ID:86-B17958
Status: Available

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