CLARITY IN THE FOGG

A plan which has been tried out with unusual success at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London might well be introduced at the Fogg Museum. Each month one subject has been isolated from the great mass in the museum and placed alone where it could be seen by everybody.

A great difficulty with museums has always been their size. They have on exhibition such an artistic conglomeration that one is wearied beyond possible appreciation and carries away no clear impression. By this plan one masterpiece will be accentuated so that every person will notice it and be able to remember it.

The project of isolating one great work of art a month would be more advantageous for a university museum. Students going in and out daily would come to know one object as they would not be able to otherwise. They would be able to prove by the test of time the validity of their own reactions. The idea might be extended so that objects of unusual merit could be borrowed from other museums throughout the country.