Another Museum Renovation

On Monday, the first lady, Michelle Obama, visited New York to promote the arts by attending opening night at the American Ballet Theater

and the reopening of part of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During the visit, Mrs. Obama said several encouraging things, such as:

“The arts are not just a nice thing to have,” she said, adding that the arts “define who we are as a people”

and

“My husband and I believe strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation’s leaders of tomorrow”

and

“The president and I want to ensure that all children have access to great works of art.”

This is the second phase of a major, three-phase reordering and upgrading of the American Wing at the Met in NYC. For more information on the various phases and even a video of first-lady Michelle Obama at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, please see: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={D81BC4AF-DD28-411E-862D-3B70B26C1C14.

The quotations are from the NY Times here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/nyregion/19michelle.html?ref=arts.

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