GR’s ‘Old Ways’ Crippling The New Economy
Published: April 28, 2003
The New York Times last week featured an article on the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Van Andel Museum Center entitled “Midwest Miracle.” After tracing the security and liability issues that made Grand Rapids the only venue for the exhibit and complaining of “it being an object lesson is how disorganized the museum world is,” the Times reporter wrote, “The Dead Seas Scrolls show means that museum professionals will probably never again think of Grand Rapids as having no more significant cultural destination than the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.”

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