DOI Heft:
No. 105 (December, 1901)
DOI Artikel:The Horniman Free Museum
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0214
The Horniman Free Museum
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THE COMMEMORATIVE TABLET BY F. W. POMEROY
rounded arrises of the tower, concerning which enough in all its arrangements to be a modern
hostile critics have something to say, are not only public building for the convenient display of relics;
an architectural relief to the eyes after the monotony it is easy of access, it is spacious and unpretentious
of straight lines and sharp angles ; they are also in its internal planning, and every care has been
elements of repose that accord well with the strong taken to make it a place in which a crowd may
constructive logic of the whole building. move easily without jostling, and without feeling in
Indeed, built thoughtfully for a given purpose, the least bewildered. Most museums need as
the Horniman Free Museum is quite practical many finger-posts as may be found on a long
INTERIOR OF THE HORNIMAN MUSEUM
C. HARRISON TOWNSEND, ARCHITECT
201
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TION SNSTRl
THE COMMEMORATIVE TABLET BY F. W. POMEROY
rounded arrises of the tower, concerning which enough in all its arrangements to be a modern
hostile critics have something to say, are not only public building for the convenient display of relics;
an architectural relief to the eyes after the monotony it is easy of access, it is spacious and unpretentious
of straight lines and sharp angles ; they are also in its internal planning, and every care has been
elements of repose that accord well with the strong taken to make it a place in which a crowd may
constructive logic of the whole building. move easily without jostling, and without feeling in
Indeed, built thoughtfully for a given purpose, the least bewildered. Most museums need as
the Horniman Free Museum is quite practical many finger-posts as may be found on a long
INTERIOR OF THE HORNIMAN MUSEUM
C. HARRISON TOWNSEND, ARCHITECT
201