ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Katayuma Tokuma, Hyokeikan Museum, Tokyo, 1908

2. Fred Wilson, Guarded View, 1991

3. Johann Andreae, Christianopolis, 1619

4. Sébastien Le Clerc, The Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts, 1699

5. Raphael, The School of Athens, ca. 1510–12

6. Hubert Robert, Grand Gallery of the Louvre between 1794–96

7. Frederick Mackenzie, The Original National Gallery at J.J. Angerstein's House, Pall Mall, London, ca. 1834

8. “Substance and Shadow,” from Punch, 1843

9. “The Public-House, or, the House for the Public?” from Punch, 1869

10. St. George's Museum, Sheffield, Yorkshire

11. South Kensington Museum, 1857

12. Charles B. Atwood, Fine Arts Palace, Chicago Columbian Exposition, 1893

13. Inexpensive Objects exhibition, Newark Museum, 1929

14. Le Corbusier, plan of the Musée Mondial, 1929

15. Dame Myra Hess in concert at the National Gallery, London, 1939

16. Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1959

17. Installation view of The Family of Man exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955

18. Hans Haacke, MoMA-Poll, 1970

19. Cover of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 1969

20. Daniel Libeskind, Jewish Museum, Berlin, 1998

21. Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997

22. Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997, interior view

23. Vatican mineral collections. From Mercati, Metallotheca, 1717

24. Etienne-Louis Boullée, Interior View of a Museum, 1783

25. Etienne-Louis Boullée, Plan of a Museum, 1783

26. Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, Museum Design, 1802–5

27. Etienne-Louis Boullée, Design for the Royal Library, 1785

28. Hubert Robert, Project for the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, ca. 1785

29. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Altes Museum, Berlin, 1830

30. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Altes Museum, Berlin, plan

31. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Altes Museum, Berlin, rotunda

32. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Altes Museum, Berlin, terrace with view of the Lustgarten

33. John Sturgis and Charles Brigham, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ca. 1876

34. Guy Lowell, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1909

35. John Russell Pope, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1941

36. Benjamin Ives Gilman's “skiascope”

37. Charles Coolidge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1927

38. A.J. van der Steur, Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1935, interior view

39. George Howe and William Lescaze, Plans for a Contemporary Museum, New York, 1936

40. Philip Goodwin and Edward Stone, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1939

41. Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1939

42. Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1959, interior view

43. Norman Bel Geddes, General Motors Pavilion, New York World's Fair, 1939, design model

44. Mies van der Rohe, National Gallery, Berlin, view of the inaugural Mondrian exhibition, 1968

45. Philip Johnson, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York 1974

46. Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Pompidou Center, Paris, 1977

47. I.M. Pei, Louvre Pyramid, Paris, 1989

48. I. M. Pei, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, West Wing, 1981, interior view

49. Gae Aulenti, Orsay Museum, Paris, 1987, interior view

50. Richard Meier, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 1995

51. Richard Meier, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997

52. Santiago Calatrava, Quadracci Pavilion, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2001

53. Renzo Piano, Menil Collection, Houston, 1987

54. Renzo Piano, Menil Collection, Houston, 1987, display of Cycladic sculpture

55. Tadeo Ando, Museum of Contemporary Art, Naoshima, Japan, 1992, gallery view

56. Yoshio Taniguchi, Gallery of Hôryûji Treasures, Tokyo, 1999

57. Yoshio Taniguchi, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006, gallery view

58. Installation view of Donald Judd's plywood boxes at Dia: Beacon, New York, ca. 2005

59. Louis Kahn, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1972

60. Louis Kahn, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1972, interior view

61. Louis Kahn, Yale Center for British Art, 1977, interior view

62. James Stirling and Michael Wilford, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1983

63. Fred Wilson, Metalwork, 1793–1880, from Mining the Museum, 1992

64. Fred Wilson, Collector's Living Room, from The Museum: Mixed Metaphors, 1993

65. Plan of the National Gallery of Art, West Building, 2006

66. Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci at the National Gallery of Art

67. The Wunderkammer of Ferdinando Cospi, 1677

68. Installation view of the Imperial Gallery, Vienna, ca. 1735

69. The Rubens Room, Electoral Gallery, Düsseldorf, ca. 1778

70. Plan of the Imperial Gallery, Vienna, ca. 1784

71. View of Raphael's Transfiguration at the Louvre Museum, ca. 1803

72. Before and after reorganization of the Louvre in the early 1930s

73. American Gallery, Toledo Museum of Art, 1930s

74. Experimental installations, from Melton, 1935

75. “The White Cube” (Ellsworth Kelly at the Museum of Modern Art, 1990s)

76. Installation view of the Degenerate Art exhibition, Munich, 1937

77. Thirteenth-Century Room, Museum of French Monuments, Paris, ca. 1815

78. Francis I Room, Musée de Cluny, Paris, ca. 1845

79. Installation view of the Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Sculpture exhibition at the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin, after 1904

80. Carlo Scarpa, Museo Correr, Venice, late 1950s, gallery interior

81. Japanese Temple Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1910

82. Inaugural installation of the Gallery of African Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982

83. Installation view of the African Gallery, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 2004

84. Installation view of The Birth of Impressionism exhibition, Glasgow Museums, 1997

85. Installation view of Tim Hawkinson's Überorgan at Mass MoCA, 2000

86. Memling's Altarpiece of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, 1474–79, at the Memling Museum, Bruges, 2003

87. Michelangelo's Virgin and Child, 1501–5, at the Church of Notre-Dame, Bruges, 2003

88. Honoré Daumier, “The Egyptians weren't good-looking!” 1867

89. “A Party of Working Men at the National Gallery,” The Graphic, 1870

90. Apprentice Docents, Newark Museum, 1929–30

91. A class at the Toledo Museum of Art, 1936

92. Sixty-ninth Street Branch Museum, Philadelphia, 1931

93. John Kinard at the Seminar on Neighborhood Museums, Brooklyn, New York, 1969

94. Guggenheim/Hermitage Las Vegas, Venetian Casino and Resort, Las Vegas, 2005

95. “Friends of Steve” marketing flier, Worcester Art Museum, ca. 2000

96. “Woman's Bedroom,” from The Architect and the Industrial Arts exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1929

97. Installation view of the Machine Art exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 1934

98. Mona Lisa crowds at the National Gallery, 1963

99. Front cover of Annual Report, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1978

100. Walker Art Center Lobby Book Corner, ca. 1942

101. Mary Cassatt exhibition shop, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999

102. Advertisement for the Rembrandt's Self-Portraits exhibition, National Gallery, London, 1999

103. Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, Triumphal Entry of the Monuments of the Arts and Sciences, 1798

104. Benjamin Zix, The Marriage Procession of Napoleon and Marie-Louise through the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, 1810

105. Return to Cologne of Rubens' “Martyrdom of Saint Peter” in 1815, 1837

106. British officers of the Benin punitive expedition with the bronzes and ivories taken from the royal compound, Benin City, 1897

107. The Elgin Marbles on display at the British Museum, 2006

108. The Benin Bronzes on display at the British Museum, 2006

109. Torso of a fertility goddess (yakshi) from the Great Stupa at Sanchi (25 BC-AD 25) on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

110. “Dude, Where's My Museum?” Museum News, 2005

111. Norman Foster, Great Court, British Museum, 2000

112. The Euphronios Krater on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006