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The Rose Art Museum currently welcomes 13,000 to 15,000 people through its doors per year, and provides opportunities for students, teachers and the public to see and learn about the arts. Through student internships, class visits and artist talks, the Rose fulfills its mission statement to ?...
“The worth of the collection cannot be measured. There’s no way to recover it once its gone. You can build other programs up, but something like the collection is gone forever, once its gone,” said Emily Mollo, director of education for...
The Jan. 30 News article "Protesters Oppose Brandeis Art Sale" incorrectly stated that the Rose Art Museum's collection had last been valued at $35 million. In fact, the collection had been valued at $350 million.
Brandeis's decision to sell its art collection in order to make ends meet is all too indicative of the larger problems facing universities as donations dry up and endowments plummet in this dismal economic climate. On average, university endowments have dropped 23 percent in only five months.
It is with great sadness that we mark the closing of Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum and the general cuts in education that this loss symbolizes. The Rose, home to Brandeis’s 6,000-object art collection, was approaching its 50th anniversary, but may not...