There are two ionic visions of museum that are readily conjured. The first is marble Beaux-Arts tomb for art.
Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude Nicolas Ledoux were product of a Beaux -Arts education, but rather than dwell in the ornate and decorative formal aspects they turned their attention and efforts towards more visionary and utopian ideas.
Both are warrant looking at in relationship to the IMTA, as does their predecessor Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
