Renovated Museum Space to Open


	Renovated Museum Space to Open

presohio

6-17-2008 10:43 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d8bf9159-6e1d-4451-910b-af9575faa8dc/060F182E-AFE2-49C4-B8B3-F3239A91A810/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_oks_se.html" href="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_oks_se.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cleveland.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_oks_se.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cleveland.com/img/797C96C4-72FE-4A2E-B529-0C51597DD847" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_oks_se.html"><P>The Cleveland Museum of Art blew past a major milestone Monday on a 10-year, $350 million expansion and renovation it's calling the largest cultural project in Ohio history. The museum's board of trustees announced it has raised $204.5 million for construction since 2002 and voted unanimously to go ahead with the second and final phase needed to finish construction by 2012. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_oks_se.html"><P>	"It's a great day for the museum," Al Rankin, president of the museum's board, said Monday after the meeting. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_oks_se.html"><P>	"This is just an outstanding project, and we are going to carry it forward. It will position this museum to be a really great museum of the 21st century." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_oks_se.html"><P>The expansion, now almost half-finished, will enlarge the museum by nearly 50 percent. It will add new galleries to display a world-famous collection and give the museum a glassy central atrium that will become one of the biggest gathering spaces in the city.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/06/cleveland_museum_of_art_oks_se.html">On Sunday, June 29, the museum will reopen renovated galleries on the main level of its 1916 building.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/060F182E-AFE2-49C4-B8B3-F3239A91A810/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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