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48 studio must therefore be provided. Photographer's quarters on the top floor of the museum building, in some out-of-the-way angle not needed for exhibition purposes, are often arranged, but the mistake is made of building a two-foot stairway leading up to them by which large objects cannot be taken to the studio. The main freight elevator shaft should in all cases go to the highest and lowest points in the building, as there is no use in rooms which cannot be reached, and every available space in the museum must be utilized. At the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin, as in many others of our best planned museums, the elevator stops at the main gallery floor and under the roof are several storage rooms and an excellent photographer's studio. The most complete installation of workshops in this country is at the Metropolitan in New York. Here, in addition to the shops mentioned above, are the laboratories for the care of Egyptian limestones and the restoration of classical antiquities. In the Berlin museums a complete chemical laboratory adds to the equipment for the scientific care of art objects.

In most European museums it is considered necessary to have a caretaker live in the museum building and for his use an apartment is provided. In this country, however, this does not