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Rh built will depend largely on the amount of money at the disposal of the committee, but it must always be borne in mind that a third must be added to the contractor's price to cover possible changes and mistakes in estimates, and that the cost of proper installation is very high. It would be perfectly possible to build a museum of concrete or brick that would be better adapted to the collections than the usual marble structure and the saving in expense would be sufficient to insure adequate equipment for carrying on the work of the institution. This is a point too often neglected. Having spent several hundred thousand dollars on the shell, the Trustees find themselves unable to provide funds for the expensive installation which is needed by most art objects.

The museum Director working with the architect must consider the following points:

ENTRANCES In general it may be said that the fewer the public entrances the better, in order to control both the number of people who go in and the number of people who go out of the museum. Two or more entrances have proved rather confusing, especially where umbrellas, walking sticks, etc., are checked at one entrance and the visitor leaves by another. Museum attendants complain of