It's an arrangement that recalls Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with its new entrance pavilion by Renzo Piano, which now houses all the necessary but distracting museum functions such as ticketing and coat check to ensure that once inside the Venetian palazzo you are able to focus exclusively on art and taste.

WSJ: Barnes Collection | Albert C. Barnes | Ensemble: Albert C. Barnes and the Experiment in Education | Saving Dr. Barnes's Vision| By Eric Gibson