Praise flows as visitors flock to new University of Michigan Museum of Art
The University of Michigan’s newly refurbished Museum of Art has reopened to rave reviews in Ann Arbor this weekend.Excerpt:It was no quiet “Sunday Afternoon” by Seurat, nor a chaotic “Night Watch” by Rembrandt. Instead, the painting Saturday night at the newly remodeled University of Michigan Museum of Art was of a happy crowd celebrating a community institution and its long-awaited reopening.When the front doors flung wide at 6 p.m. sharp Saturday evening to the peal of bells throughout campus and Ann Arbor, a crowd of several hundred cheered and began pouring inside. The initial throng of visitors kept coming for a solid quarter-hour, welcomed with the soft applause of museum staffers and volunteers standing just inside the entrance.It was first time the public has been able to step inside the museum since it closed for the $41.9 million renovation in mid-2006.Read the rest of the story here.
The University of Michigan’s newly refurbished Museum of Art has reopened to rave reviews in Ann Arbor this weekend.
Excerpt:
It was no quiet “Sunday Afternoon” by Seurat, nor a chaotic “Night Watch” by Rembrandt. Instead, the painting Saturday night at the newly remodeled University of Michigan Museum of Art was of a happy crowd celebrating a community institution and its long-awaited reopening.
When the front doors flung wide at 6 p.m. sharp Saturday evening to the peal of bells throughout campus and Ann Arbor, a crowd of several hundred cheered and began pouring inside. The initial throng of visitors kept coming for a solid quarter-hour, welcomed with the soft applause of museum staffers and volunteers standing just inside the entrance.
It was first time the public has been able to step inside the museum since it closed for the $41.9 million renovation in mid-2006.
Read the rest of the story here.
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