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68 HOW MAY DEFECTS IN EXISTING BUILDINGS BE REMEDIED?

In Europe it is the exception for the building in which collections are housed to have been built purposely for a museum, and in this country also many an aspiring institution is located in an old dwelling house made over. The chief difficulties which are likely to confront the architect are concerned



with the height of the rooms and the quality of the light. A room that is too high is quite as difficult to work with as one that is too low, although the remedy is much simpler. Many of the older European museums which were built with enormously high rooms have been found to dwarf the pictures to such an extent and to present such an ungainly appearance when hung according to modern taste with pictures on the line