Looking through the Skiascope: Benjamin Ives Gilman and the Invention of the Modern Museum Gallery
Benjamin Ives Gilman invented the skiascope to ensure that museum visitors saw art as he thought best—without distraction. Unfortunately, as far as I was able to determine, no skiascope survives. And so I built one.
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2017-06-01
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https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/looking-through-the-skiascope-benjamin-gilman-and-the-invention-of-the-modern-museum-gallery/
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