welcome room

Wow! This place is dreamy

We've just opened the entry door and glided into the muesum's welcome room.

We'll imagine that the museum's front facade faces south, so we'll face north as we move from room to room. Get it? Sort of anyway? We'll get the hang of it more as we glide through the rooms, one after another.

As we look straight ahead we see a long hallway leading to lots of rooms. The opening on the welcome room's far wall is the spacious entry to the next room. It's called a "gallery" room. Why? That's what they call them in physical museums. Who knows how that got started. There's lots of other museum lingo. We'll do our best to avoid it.

Photo: Daniel Orr, Gallery Rooms, 2019. "Uploaded by Daniel Orr, volunteer at the ACMAA Research Library, by permission of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art." Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons**)

Since we're dreaming, we can have the hallway between rooms look like this too. They both look great.

(above: Daderot, "Interior view of Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. Sculptor: Bertel Thorvaldsen (c. 1770-1844). Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. This artwork is now in the public domain because the artist died more than 70 years ago," May 11, 2012. photograph, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons**)

Let's glide now towards the far left corner of the welcome room. We'll start our tour here and look at the first view we see on the far wall. (more about what's going on soon)

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