Rose Art Museum to be closed

by Andrea Fineman, Hannah Kirsch and Mike Prada | 01/27/2009

CORRECTION APPENDED SEE BOTTOMThe Rose Art Museum, which houses a collection of modern and contemporary masterpieces, will close in the summer of 2009 after the Board of Trustees voted unanimously yesterday to do so in the wake of the current financial crisis, according to a campuswide e-mail sent by University President Jehuda Reinharz.The decision stunned many current and former Rose staff members, University faculty and students, all of whom did not learn of plans to close the museum until after the decision was final.The University will publicly sell all of the art that is currently housed in the museum, according to a University press release.