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The "Art Museum" would need to make provision for additional groups not now especially developed, including:
Architecture
Furniture
Costume and personal embellishment
Mortuary arts
Arms and armor
Household arts
Time-keeping
Heat and illumination 
Metal work
Woodwork
Glass and enamel
Mosaic
Lacquer, etc.

The space required might approach 100,000 square feet. 
 
The "Art Museum" should provide space for a number of series of exhibits illustrating the evolution of art in much detail and in a manner never undertaken by any museum.  Series of works and objects selected from the art materials of every country and people and of all periods should be utilized in this work.  The idea would extend to every branch of art achievement in which the aesthetic sense has part.  Collections available for use in this direction occupy at present a space estimated at 10,000 square feet.  For the development