Bulletin of the Division of Art and Archaeology

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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Division of Art and Archaeology: December, 1956According to Mrs. De N agay 5 plan, the Museum arranged supplementary exhibits in two square show-cases ¿anking the reconstructed living-room. These exhibits, which were well provided with explanatory labels, con sisted of related material from the Museum's Near Eastern collections. The twin show-cases filled the outer angles of the booth, which lay strategically across the end of a block of booths exhibiting modern house interiors. The outer sides of their bases were thus in a suitable position to carry four large illustrated label-panels intended to explain the whole exhibit. Since these label-panels had to be placed below eye-level they were sloped for easy reading between the show-cases and the twenty-four inch -high footboard of the booth. The show-cases, 'which were lent by the Museum, each had a glazed area thirty -two inches high by twenty inches square. Since the material that we proposed to show in them could not be easily and attractively arranged to fill the total height, we masked their t0ps with ten-inch-wide horizontal panels inside the glass. On each of these four panels facing the public we placed three blown-up photographic colour-prints illustrating the Jericho scene, including the excavations. A scale drawing of the show-cases, the footboard, the large label-panels, and the panels carrying the colour photographs had to be prepared in order to ensure the right proportions of all parts of the display. The biggest prob lem was to select and organize the ancient material to be placed under the glass, so that it should perform the dual function of presenting evidence for the reconstruction of the living-room and of supplying additional in formation about the life of the family who lived in this room.The two show-cases, with the four large label-panels, attracted no less interest than the living-room itself. They were, in fact, essential to a full appreciation of the reconstruction.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.